Trauma Clinical Outcomes Manager at Ohio Health (2024-01 – Present)
- Develop protocols focused on patient outcomes
- Provide one-to-one nursing feedback surrounding goal development
- Establish percentage-based outcomes goals focused on quality patient outcomes
- Complete staff follow up to ensure understanding of standards and goals
- Lead trauma outcomes analysis, utilizing data from trauma registries to identify trends and areas for improvement
- Develop and implement strategies to enhance trauma care quality and patient safety
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including trauma surgeons, emergency physicians, and hospital leadership
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and prepare detailed reports for hospital administration and regulatory agencies
- Facilitate continuous quality improvement initiatives aligned with trauma system standards
- Conduct staff training on trauma data collection and documentation best practices
Nurse Administrator at Ohio Health (2018-01 – Present)
- Financial resource management
- Observe nursing staff to ensure proper delivery of care
- Follow staffing guidelines to allow safe care and positive productivity
- Respond to critical situations to ensure that all staff are providing appropriate interventions
- Facilitate resolution of complaints/grievances from patients and family
- Supervised nursing staff in a high-volume hospital unit
- Ensured compliance with hospital policies and healthcare standards
- Facilitated staff education and quality improvement initiatives
- Managed patient flow and documentation accuracy
Registered Nurse at Ohio Health (2012-01 – Present)
- Provide nursing care to Level I and II trauma patients
- Detect when critical patients start to have a decline in health status and provide interventions
- Handle multiple emergencies, including stroke, cardiac arrest, and STEMI patients
- Assess and triage patients efficiently and accurately
- Assist with intubations, defibrillations, splinting, and conscious sedations
- Monitor, assess and chart on critically ill patients
- Prioritize patient's needs, orders and interventions
- Adjust critical medication infusions based on vital signs and assessment
- Monitor patients requiring mechanical ventilation, CPAP and BiPAP
- Provide neurological assessments for all stroke and TPA patients based on strict protocol and guidelines
- Prepare patients for emergency surgery in critical situations
- Precept new RN's to unit
- Keep open line of communication to multidisciplinary team members
- Communicate with patients and family regarding diagnostic tests, results and plan of care
- Assure safety when handling and transferring patients
- Call report to other units and hospitals
Administrative Nurse Manager at Doctors Hospital ICU (2020-01 – 2021-12)
- Managing department budget
- Performance evaluations and goal development of staff
- Follow up on event reporting to ensure proper patient handling and care
- Continue guidance for 70 staff members within the department
- Build relationships with physicians and other departments to encourage open communication
- Use Lean strategies for process improvements
Clinical Nurse Manager at Grant Emergency Department (2019-01 – 2020-12)
- Provide input to development of unit budget
- Monitor productivity of the unit
- Ensures that the schedule is balanced and that all associates work required hours
- Leads department initiatives for patient satisfaction
- Utilize balance scorecard to improve overall department standards
- Focus on throughput metrics, working with admitting teams to improve processes
- Helped implement streamlined Emergency Department processes and protocols
- Offered professional guidance, supervision and leadership to staff
- Develop and participate in Individual Development Plans for 180 staff members to improve staff development and delivery of care
