Amutha Christinal

Dynamic and accomplished Chief Nursing Officer with over 42 years of progressive experience in nursing administration, hospital operations, critical care, quality management, and healthcare leadership. Proven expertise in leading multidisciplinary nursing teams, developing clinical policies, workforce planning, accreditation support, patient safety initiatives, infection prevention, and hospital quality improvement. Strong leadership in strategic planning, procurement oversight, financial management, and regulatory compliance.

Passionate about building high-performing nursing teams while ensuring excellence in patient care and operational efficiency.

Chief Nursing Officer - SRM Global Hospitals - Kattankulathur

(2023)

Goal: Have the drive to achieve continuous improvement and to lead strong teams of varying size and levels of aptitude. Strive to retain the employee with satisfaction with professional growth.

• Directed day-to-day nursing operations, ensuring the delivery of safe, patient-centered, and evidence-based nursing care.
• Supervised nursing managers, ward in-charges, and nursing staff across all clinical departments.
• Developed, implemented, and monitored nursing policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and clinical protocols.
• Planned nursing workforce requirements, staffing, duty rosters, recruitment, orientation, performance appraisal, and staff retention initiatives.
• Ensured compliance with hospital quality standards, infection prevention and control practices, patient safety goals, and regulatory requirements.
• Conducted regular nursing audits, ward inspections, and root cause analysis to improve quality of care and operational efficiency.
• Coordinated multidisciplinary collaboration with medical, pharmacy, biomedical engineering, finance, HR, and support service departments.
• Oversaw procurement planning by reviewing and verifying purchase requests, medical equipment, instruments, consumables, vendor quotations, invoices, and inventory utilization to ensure cost-effective resource management.
• Participated in annual budgeting, capital equipment planning, and financial monitoring for the nursing department.
• Led staff education, competency assessments, in-service training, continuing nursing education (CNE), and leadership development programs.
• Ensured effective patient flow, bed management, emergency preparedness, and efficient utilization of hospital resources.
• Maintained effective communication with patients, families, consultants, and hospital administration to enhance patient satisfaction and service excellence.
• Staff Scheduling
• Conflict Resolution
• Performance Evaluation
• Clinical Governance
• Patient Experience Improvement
• Mentorship of Nurse Managers
• Apart from Chief Nursing Officer managed hospital overall purchase
• Monitored and verified hospital-wide procurement processes, including purchase requisitions, purchase orders, invoices, medical equipment, instruments, consumables, and other hospital supplies, ensuring compliance with institutional policies, quality standards, and budgetary guidelines.
• Reviewed and approved purchase requests, verified quotations, evaluated medical equipment and instruments, and ensured timely procurement of quality materials required for uninterrupted patient care and hospital operations.
• Oversaw the verification of hospital purchase requests, bills, medical equipment, instruments, pharmaceuticals, and consumables to ensure accuracy, cost-effectiveness, quality compliance, and adherence to procurement policies.
• Directed procurement monitoring and verification of hospital purchases, including medical equipment, surgical instruments, consumables, purchase requisitions, quotations, invoices, and vendor documentation, ensuring regulatory compliance, financial accountability, and uninterrupted clinical services.

Nursing Superintendent - SRM Medical College Hospital & Research Centre - Katankulathur

(2020-03 - 2023)

Privileged to serve as Nursing Superintendent at SRM Medical College Hospital & Research Centre since March, 2020. SRM MCH & RC appreciatively cared for 6000 COVID patients during the great pandemic. Received the COVID warrior award by the Chengalpet District Collector.

The Nursing team under my able leadership hosted a Symposium on ‘Nursing approach in COVID: lessons learnt, confronting challenges, and preparedness for 3rd wave’. Moreover, the bed strength of the hospital was increased from 1212 to 1635 beds during my dynamic leadership. Was instrumental in getting 250 seats approval for MBBS last year.

Promoted as CNO for SRM Global Hospitals -2023:

• Led nursing services for a multi-specialty tertiary care hospital.
• Successfully managed large multidisciplinary nursing teams.
• Organized State-Level Nursing Conference on Exemplary Nursing Initiatives.
• Conducted hospital-wide BLS training programs.
• Led recruitment, orientation, and competency development of nursing professionals.
• Improved staff retention through structured mentoring and professional development.
• Coordinated MCI inspections and institutional audits.
• Organized large-scale vaccination drives and blood donation camps.
• Strengthened infection control practices and biomedical waste management compliance.

Nursing Superintendent - Chettinad Hospitals

(2013 - 2019-11)

• Training the nursing staff to apply the nursing process (Assessment, Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation) while taking care of the patient.
• Positive and collaborative environment is created
• Developing and implementing objectives, policies and procedures.
• Assisting in recruitment and training the nursing staffs
• Coordinating with staff members in regard to daily reports regarding admission, discharges and deaths.
• Carrying out regular rounds in hospital wards & departments, daily visits to seriously ill patients and surprise night round.
• Guidance to staff and acted as resource to colleagues.
• Functioning as directed like recruiting, retention of staff and handling disciplinary actions.
• Nurses and nurse managers are supervised.
• Strategies were recommended to improve nursing service, reaching the established goals.
• Maintaining outcomes and contributing to profitability.
• Periodical staff meeting is being conducted.
• Analyzing the kind and amount of nursing services required in the ward.
• Educated and helped to interpret the principles of good management to the staff especially to those who are inexperienced and orienting them to apply these principles to their daily work.
• Steps are being initiated to streamline the duty assignments and leaves which will reduce unauthorized absence.
• Maintaining the availability of adequate nursing staff in all shifts.
• Confidentiality of staffs maintained.
• Taken care of the legal aspects and report about the medico legal cases.
• Proper enquiry was done during conflicts.
• Maintained the discipline among the staff
• Carry out all the work assigned by Superiors as and when required.
• Coordinated the BLS training programme for the inhouse nurses.
• Coordinated during CAMPS, MCI INSPECTIONS, Clinical rotation and training for the students from other institutions.
• Coordinated the clinical rotation programme for the CONCORDIA COLLEGE OF NURSING from Newyork, USA
• Organized Blood donation on the occasion of NURSES’s day, Awareness programme and maintenance of Biomedical Waste Management by Mr.Vasudevan DDE from TNPCB
• Conducted INHOUSE TRAINING programme.
• Organized STATE LEVEL NURSING CONFERENCE on ``EXEMPLARY NURSING INITIATIVES’’

Nursing Superintendent - KJ Nursing Home

(1998 - 2013)

• Designed and planned the delivery of patient centered nursing care
• Organized in-house training for the staffs
• Trained the students from CDH
• Annual budget and overseeing the reports
• Guided the staff nurses
• Regular rounds taken and supervised the cleanliness of the whole unit.
• Arrangements were done to make the availability of the materials required for nursing department.
• Assisted in recruiting the staff nurses.
• Accompanied with MD for rounds
• Budget prepared for nursing service
• Member of the condemnation board
• Counseling given to the staffs as needed.
• All the complaints regarding nursing care were analyzed and investigated and corrective action.
• Confidential reports were evaluated.
• Cordial relationship maintained.
• Demonstration and supervision done on nursing.

RN RM - Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore (1980 - 1984)

D. Pharm - Madras College of Pharmacy, Chennai (1996 - 1998)

HSC - Sarah Tucker Girls Higher Secondary School, Thirunelveli (1980 - 1980)