Amy Raichle

• Responsible for 65 FTEs , specializing in orthopedic and neurosurgery
• Directed day-to-day nursing and operational functions in the area of preop and PACU, ensuring exceptional delivery of care when developing well-rounded nursing teams.
• Acts independently under Director, maintains budget in staffing, materials, and capital requests.
• Duties include, but not limited to hiring, scheduling, staffing, Joint Commission compliance, addressing patient, family, physician, and staff concerns promptly with follow up.
• Administered performance evaluations and probationary reviews to assess nursing personnel.
• Interacted effectively with inpatient managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.

• Nurse Coordinator for Joint Commission Certified Disease Specific Total Hip and Total Knee Program. Evaluated operational practices and identified improvement opportunities to develop revisions for systems and procedures. Maintained total joint data to support Joint Commission performance measures to gain recertification in August 2021. Developed tools to enhance patient and staff education. Worked with a multidisciplinary team and presented data at quarterly Task Force Meetings.

• Responsible for 90 FTEs between 2 units, specializing in orthopedic, neuro, breast reconstruction, plastic, and ophthalmologic surgical procedures.
• Directed day-to-day nursing and operational functions for 6 areas of preop and PACU, ensuring exceptional delivery of care when developing well-rounded nursing teams.
• Acts independently under Director, maintains budget in staffing, materials, and capital requests.
• Duties include, but not limited to hiring, scheduling, staffing, Joint Commission compliance, addressing patient, family, physician, and staff concerns promptly with follow up.
• Administered performance evaluations and probationary reviews to assess nursing personnel.
• Interacted effectively with inpatient managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.

• Responsible for 40 FTEs, operational and clinical support specializing in orthopedic, breast reconstruction, and plastic surgery procedures
• Acts independently under Director, maintains budget in staffing, materials, and capital requests.
• Duties include, but not limited to hiring, scheduling, staffing, Joint Commission compliance, addressing patient, family, physician, and staff concerns promptly with follow up.
• Trained employees in company and regulatory compliance requirements to promote conformance.
• Monitored and evaluated personnel performance to complete annual reviews and addressed productivity concerns.

• Responsible for 30 FTEs in perioperative ambulatory setting including endoscopy.
• Initiated scheduling and vacation guidelines, self-scheduling, weekly staff meetings, weekly operations meetings, and daily huddles to improve efficiencies and communication.
• Able to maintain State requirements for operation of the facility. • Hired to meet needed FTEs and maintained staffing budget.
• Established efficient workflow processes, monitored daily productivity and implemented modifications to improve overall effectiveness of personnel and activities.
• Helped employees with day-to-day work and complex problems by applying motivational and analytical strategies.

• Assisted in managing 80 FTEs in preop, OR, and PACU, specializing in orthopedics, plastic, and ophthalmology surgery.

• Directs and supervises patient care.

• Assist in the development of EPIC One Chart.
• Duties include, but not limited to scheduling and staffing, Joint Commission compliance, addressing patient, family, physician, and staff concerns promptly.

• Suite 100 Daily charge nurse responsibilities, assigning staff, overseeing operations of nine room OR, facilitated flow to maintain surgeon and patient satisfaction.
• Worked all perioperative areas, mentor, preceptor, and resource to employees.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.
• Delegated and prioritized assignments and nursing tasks based on individual staff strengths and expertise.
• Completed clinical tasks in accordance with hospital policy.
• Built rapport with patients and family members to deliver exceptional care.
• EPIC superuser

• Responsible for the clinical instruction of 8 RN nursing students per session at Beaumont Children's Hospital.
• Conducted clinical simulations and provided feedback for each individual student.
• Evaluated students' competencies through written assignments and examinations.
• Emphasis on organization and employee relations with co-workers, physicians, and family.
• Clinical instruction based on stages of development and pediatric disease process.
• Assigned students to patients based on students' learning objectives and patient needs.
• Distributed course syllabus and communicated course standards and learning objectives to students.
• Instructed and coached students to help overcome academic issues and personal challenges.

• Circulated all pediatric surgical specialties.
• Afternoon charge nurse responsible for boarding cases.
• Used aseptic techniques to maintain sterile fields and actively monitored situations to prevent breaches in aseptic techniques.

• Monitored the care of recently discharged high risk pediatric patients.
• Performed post-natal visits to mothers and newborns.
• Follow up care for premature NICU babies. Educated and supervised patients and family members regarding prevention strategies, self-care techniques and nursing care needs.
• Coordinated and collaborated with various multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care and promote patient safety and health.

• Daily charge nurse responsibilities. Initiated self-scheduling, Neonatal Resuscitation Provider instructor, and responsible for responding to high risk deliveries at a referral hospital for all of Indiana.
• Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.