Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
USA_Manager, Product Quality Clinician – THV
Edwards lifesciences
04.2021 - Current
Member of the Complaint Handling and Post Market Surveillance/Risk Management team, within the Transcatheter Heart Valve (THV) Quality department.
Provide clinical expert knowledge and guidance to Quality Compliance, Quality Engineers, and other cross functional teams to understand the nature of complaints and possible health risks.
Ensure appropriate investigation of product complaints and adverse events, to escalate potential manufacturing, design, labeling and training issues.
Analyze data, interpret, and formulate conclusions, with the objective of gathering key information to communicate to cross functional teams who utilize the information for improvement of product and procedural outcomes.
Member of the NAC: Provide early feedback on new designs or provide understanding of use for nurses in the clinical setting to R & D engineers in all business units.
Staff Nurse I, Radiology Department
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
07.2019 - 04.2021
Managing patients throughout the continuum of care before, during and after imaging procedures.
Modalities include Fluoroscopy, MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound, and X-Ray.
Orchestrate safe patient care for children undergoing general anesthesia/sedation during Radiology procedures.
Patient recovery from anesthesia following Interventional Radiology and other modality procedures.
Staff Nurse I, Cardiac Operating Room
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
09.2015 - 07.2019
Scrub and circulating nurse specializing in the repair of congenital heart defects, heart and lung transplants.
Travel Nurse, Cardiac Operating Room
COTTAGE HOSPITAL
04.2015 - 09.2015
Circulating responsibilities for adult cardiac procedures involving valve replacement, IABP, CABG, VATS and thoracotomy.
Travel Nurse, Cardiac Operating Room
MEMORIAL HERMANN HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER
01.2015 - 04.2015
Scrub responsibilities for adult procedures involving heart transplants, LVAD, CABG, valve replacement and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures.
Staff Nurse, Cardiac Operating Room
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER
02.2009 - 12.2014
Scrub and circulating responsibilities for procedures involving heart/lung transplant, CABG, valve repair/replacement, aneurysm repair, TAVR (Partners trial 2011), LVAD, Total Artificial Heart and other assist devices, PDA closures and adult congenital heart defects, VATS, thoracotomies and navigational bronchoscopy involving Endobronchial Ultrasound (EBUS).