Adam Berkey, MSN-Ed, RN, MEDSURG-BC

• Administrative Supervisor:
• Ensuring that quality care is provided to all patients according to facility expectations.
• Rounding on all units to ensure staff and patient/family members are safe and satisfied with care being provided to their loved ones.
• Providing patient care when needed and picking up shifts due to critical staffing needs.
• Dealing with family/patient complaints and ensuring both patient/family satisfaction.
• Direct reporting to upper administration, regarding events of the shift such as patient/family complaints, how it was resolved, and ensuring follow-up with patient/family advocate nurse, transfers are being denied by other outlying facilities and updating administration on any significant changes in patient's health status that could affect staffing needs.
• Working closely with the team of physicians and surgeons to ensure the patient has the best possible outcome.
• Staffing Coordinator: Responsible for ensuring that all floors are staffed appropriately to provide the best quality care and most of all the safest patient care.
• Bed Board Manager: Responsible for managing transfers to outlying facilities that offer higher acuity/specialized care.
• Transfers from other outlying facilities and ensuring bed placement of these patients.
• Obtaining beds for patients being admitted from the Emergency Department
• Obtaining beds for patients being admitted from the Operating Room.
• Obtaining beds for patients who are already in-house that need to be transferred to other units based on their acuity.
• RRT (Rapid Response Team)
• Responsible for making sure all appropriate members are present for those patients who are experiencing a sudden deterioration in health status.
• Ensure that all members of the team arrive in a timely manner to take care of the patient in an organized manner.
• Ensuring bed placement to an appropriate unit for a higher level of care.
• Ensuring the presence of all necessary personnel to the prompt arrival of patients who are Code Blue.

• Explained policies, procedures, and services to patients.
• Worked successfully with a diverse group of coworkers to accomplish goals and address issues related to our surgical services.
• Juggled multiple projects and tasks to ensure high-quality and timely delivery.
• Motivated and encouraged team members to communicate more openly and constructively with each other.
• Coached, mentored and supported managers, colleagues and staff.
• Kept practices, techniques, policies and procedures consistent with professional standards.
• Interviewed, hired, evaluated and terminated management and support staff.
• Fostered excellence by example by "setting pace" and being hands on mentor to clinical staff.

While working with Dr. Berkey, my position was RN/Office Manager. I had worked for Dr. Berkey in the past as his office manager while still going to school to obtain my Nursing degree. My job descriptions included :

• Billing and claims
• Obtaining insurance verification
• Collecting payments in cash, credit cards, and checks, answering phones, and scheduling appointments.
• Managing the front desk which includes:
• Directing and overseeing office personnel activities.
• Medical record keeping
• Making appointments for patients, discharging patients as I manage the back office as well.
• Those job functions include:
• Assisting in sterile office surgeries
• Taking x-rays
• Orthotic castings
• Surgery coordinator
• Managed office inventory and placed new supply orders.
• In addition to the above, I would also be an asset to this directorship position as to the fact that over the course of many years I have been involved in the process of negotiating and purchasing medical supplies from medical supply companies for a physicians office.

While working at Medical City Dallas, I started off working as a staff nurse in the Emergency Department. I soon thereafter within 6 months was promoted to Charge Nurse of the Emergency Department. While working as a Charge Nurse I soon thereafter was promoted again as the Emergency Room Nursing Supervisor, which led to yet another promotion as Nursing Administrative Supervisor for the entire 700 bed hospital. The job description included but not limited to:

• Acknowledging patient issues and resolving their problems quickly and efficiently.
• I was responsible for patients being brought to the Emergency Room and triaging patients based on acuity.
• I collaborated with the Emergency Department as a whole including the entire medical team to develop, plan, and implement a process to decrease the wait time in the ER from door to treatment room.
• I was responsible for Bed Board Management which included bed placement for patients being transferred from outlying hospitals, transferring patients to other facilities for patients that required specialized or high acuity care. I was also responsible for bed placement of patients from the Emergency Department as well as in-house transfers. Another job description that I portrayed as House Supervisor included:
• Rounding on all units including Med/Surg, Telemetry, ICU/Oncology/Orthopedics/Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and Pediatric/Pediatric Oncology.
• Rapid Response Team Member: Assisting in providing quality care to patients who were quickly deteriorating in health status and ensuring the patient received a bed in a high acute care setting.
• Pronouncing end of life for those patients and being there for the family and friends of the loved as well as offering Chaplain assistance.
• I was responsible for the staffing of the entire hospital to ensure the units were adequately staffed with nurses, patient care technicians, sitters for suicidal patients/patients that are fall risks/patients who are a threat to themselves and or others.
• I was also involved in the Triage Committee, Interviewing Committee, and the Code Team Committee.

I started off as a Graduate Nurse wanting to obtain experience as an Emergency Room Nurse. I provided quality care to high acuity patients requiring many resources of care. I became involved in the Trauma Department, where I obtained my TNCC and ENPC and was able to treat patients in Level 1 and 2 Trauma high acuity Trauma Center. I treated patients and collaborated with patients involving them in what their plan of care would involve and explaining the tests being ordered by the physician including: Blood tests, urinalysis, radiological exams, and in what process these tests will be occurring.

While being a Nursing student, I worked for DCI Biologicals, where I learned how to obtain IV lines, restarted IV lines, and maintaining the IV lines from start to finish. Other job descriptions included:

• I assembled and operated various laboratory equipment
• I collected, stored, and utilized samples of patient blood.