Medical Abstractor at Flatiron Health, Inc (2022-01 – 2023-12)
Remote from home, online, contract
Homes Health Nurse at Aveanna Home Health Care (2016-01 – 2022-12)
Home care duties Pediatrics
Lead Research Nurse at St Luke's Episcopal Hospital (2011-01 – 2016-12)
Texas Heart Institute. Conduct a large population ECG screening study of middle school children in the Houston area Field Screening Study Execution
- Operate ECG instrument and control data acquisition quality
- Obtain ECG per established procedures and protocols
- Data entry into screening register
- Protect screening data integrity and transmit to control storage per established procedures
- ECG Equipment Operation
Senior Research Nurse at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (1993-01 – 2011-12)
- Screen patients for protocol eligibility and manage patient participation in clinical trials
- Coordinate clinic visits, chart review and diagnostic test, and monitoring patient treatment
- Monitor, grade, document, and report adverse events and tumor response
- Identify patient recruitment methods
- Design research instruments and data analysis
- Provided training and development of research nurses
- Research Nurse Supervisor- Management of 25 research nurses and 11 data managers
- Provided training and development of Research Nurses and other research personnel in the department of Thoracic, Head and Neck and Chemoprevention
- Collaborate with the physician and protocol sponsor regarding protocol design, implementation, and evaluations
- Creation of process improvement plans to include an electronic data base to capture daily and weekly activities of the research nurses and data managers associated with clinical trials
- Review Budget and Cost Analysis of clinical trials
- Data entry, monitoring data, and data corrections via CRF, eCRF
- Administer employee evaluations and encourage t employee advancement
Manager Clinical Protocol Administrations at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (1993-01 – 2011-12)
Clinical protocol development and management
- Provide oversight and coordination of all clinical protocol initiatives and the protocol management activities tracked by the clinical research group
- Oversee the submission of new protocols, the revision of existing protocols, and editing of informed consent forms to be protocol-specific
- Ensure the maintenance of and enhancements/improvements to a database of departmental clinical protocols
Research Nurse Manager: Palliative Care at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (1993-01 – 2011-12)
- Create and publish standard operative procedures for Research Nurses and Data Managers and research operations
- Clinical Trials Data collection and Data entry into protocol data management database
- Supervision of Research Nurses, Data Managers, Data Analysis, Clinical Studies Coordinator, Data Managers
- Oversee activities of the research team in order to provide guidance, correction when needed, and coverage when short-staffed
- Complete routine personnel paperwork, such as performance evaluations, and provide performance counseling
- Coordinate the training and development of personnel
- Communicate and administer department and institutional policies and procedures
School Nurse at School Nurse, Lubbock Texas (1991-01 – 1993-12)
- Vision and hearing screening
- Collection and tracking of immunization records
- Health Education to students and staff
- Oversee health needs of elementary and secondary students and faculty
Oncology Clinical Nurse at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (1980-01 – 1991-12)
Oncology Clinical Nurse in the following areas.
- Charge Nurse- Medical/Surgical Oncology-Monitored daily clinical operation of assigned LVNs and nurses assistants in the area of head and neck surgery. Created and implemented patient care plans. Medication administration per standard operative procedures. Staff education
- Staff Nurse -Intensive Care –Implemented homodynamic patient care to the critically ill patients, including ventilators, intravenous infusions, telemetry etc.
- Team Leader-Operating Room. GYN – Responsible for timely placement of patient and room set up for patient GYN surgery. Collaboration with physicians and their needs in the operating room. Ability to circulate and scrub duties. Implementation of OR documentation
