Brian Smalley
McDermott, OH,OH
Summary
Knowledgeable and hard working manager with excellent conflict resolution and problem-solving abilities demonstrated across 7-year career that has included a consistent willingness to work extra hours and go beyond the required work for the benefit of team members, patients, and the organization. Very effective and experienced at leading qualified nursing teams in the effective care of Breakthru, medical-surgical, and psychiatric patients while maintaining an excellent record on staff retention and satisfaction as well as patient satisfaction via Press Ganey scores.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nursing Director
River Park Hospital
Huntington, West Virginia
04.2022 - Current
- Prepared and reviewed infection control surveillance reports to identify trends and develop effective actions to control and prevent infections.
- Developed and updated policies and procedures, maintaining compliance with statutory, regulatory and local, state and federal guidelines relating to HIPAA, benefits administration and general liability.
- Seclusion and Restraint Committee chairman overseeing marked reduction in restraint usage facility wide.
- Performed rounds to observe care and interview staff, residents and families.
- Collaborated with staff, management and external groups to coordinate patient care.
- Member of Performance Improvement, Med Executive, Infection Control, P&T, EOC, and Service Excellence committees.
- Direct day-to-day administrative and operational functions for 200 bed facility, providing guidance and leadership to over 150 employees across 10 departments.
- Conducted routine facility inspections, identifying areas needing improvement and eliminating hazards posed to staff and residents for continued compliance with associated regulations.
- Recruited, hired and trained all staff, providing direct supervision, ongoing staff development and continuing education to employees.
Nurse Manager Medical Care Unit
Southern Ohio Medical Center
Portsmouth, OH
10.2018 - 04.2022
- Performed real-time chart audits for all patients ensuring accuracy and completeness of information while capitalizing on opportunities for process improvement.
- Developed departmental goals and objectives to improve satisfactory rating with patients.
- Supervised, directed and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff caring for adult medical. Telemetry, and addictive substance withdrawal patients.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.
- Maintained payroll, scheduling, staff competencies, employee evaluations, corrective action, and training.
- Explained health care issues and ramifications to patients and families to promote informed medical care choices.
- Responsible for unit incident prevention and incident management regarding accidents, injuries, and patient and employee complaints.
- Daily staff and patient rounding.
RN Case Manager
Blessed At Home
04.2021 - Current
- Created individualized care plans based on nursing diagnosis and incorporated appropriate nursing methods to achieve positive outcomes.
- Coordinated with interdisciplinary professionals to develop plans of care, administer tests and monitor patient status.
- Developed and modified patient care plans and assisted interdisciplinary team in identifying client needs and goals to determine priorities of care
- Increased referral rates by providing excellent service and building meaningful relationships with patients and caregivers
Assistant Manager Senior Behavior Unit
Southern Ohio Medical Center
06.2015 - 10.2018
- Implemented and oversaw BERT program (Behavioral Emergency Response Team) to assist organization in de-escalating behaviors and preventing aggression.
- Trained new night nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols to better care for the geriatric pscyiatric patient population.
- Interviewing and hiring of night shift staff.
- Established and continuously optimized nightshift schedule and individual work assignments.
Logistics Manager
Masco Retail Cabinet Group
11.2006 - 06.2011
- Directed logistics operations, including shipping and receiving of wide range of products daily.
- Conducted research to address shipping errors and packaging mistakes.
- Planned and supervised shipments from production to end-user and scheduled daily and weekly routes.
- Reviewed established business practices and improved processes to increase efficiencies and reduce expense without compromising customer service levels.
- Developed warehouse system that provided best cost with appropriate service levels to achieve organizational goals and increase output.
- Worked over 2,000 hours of overtime in four years
- Conducted research to address shipping errors and packaging mistakes
- Reviewed established business practices and improved processes to increase efficiencies and reduce expense without compromising customer service levels
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Ohio University
Athens, OH08.2016
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Shawnee State University
Portsmouth, OH12.2014
Associate of Applied Science - Law Enforcement And Technology
Ohio University
Ironton, OH12.2006
Criminal Justice
Ohio University
Ironton, OHFinance And Marketing
Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Columbus, OHSkills
- Accurate Documentation
- ACLS Certified
- Administering and Monitoring IV Anticoagulants
- Administering and Monitoring of Mild Sedation
- Admitting, Discharging, and Transferring of Patients
- Analytical skills and Sound Clinical Judgment
- Assessing of Respiratory System
- Attention to Detail
- Behavioral Emergency Response and De-escalation
- Blood Draw and Sample Collection
- BLS Certified
- Budget Development and Planning
- Care Coordination
- Care of Detox/Withdrawal Patient
- Care of Psychiatric Patients
- Care of Tubes and Drains
- Charting and Chart Checking
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Community Healthcare Programming
- Community Program Referrals
- Compassionate and Caring
- Computer and Software Proficiency
- Convalescent Care
- COVID-19/PUI Patient Management
- Creative Problem Solving
- Critical Decision Making
- Critical Thinking
- Culture Building
- Dedication
- Delegation and Motivation
- Diagnostic Test Ordering and Evaluation
- Diet and Nutrition
- Direct Patient Care
- Disaster Site Triaging
- EHR Documentation and Documentation Analysis
- Elopement/AMA Prevention
- Emergency Diagnostics
- Employee Mentoring
- Employee Performance Evaluations and Corrective Action Completion
- Employee Retention
- Employee Supervision
- Employee Scheduling
- Equipment Sterilization
- Fall Risk Assessment, Prevention, & Management
- First Aid
- Group and Individual Instruction
- Healthcare Personnel Supervision
- Healthcare Program Planning
- Home Healthcare
- Immunizations and Vaccinations
- Implementation
- Incident Reporting and Incident Management and Response
- Infection Control Procedures
- Infection Control Process Coordination
- Instrument Sterilization
- Interviewing and Hiring
- IV Therapy
- Knowledge of Managed Care and Insurance Industry
- Knowledge of Managed Care Program Policies and Procedures
- Logistics Project Management
- Medical Device Prescriptions
- Medical Procedure Preparation
- Medical Recordkeeping
- Medical Supply Management
- Medication Administration
- Medicine Inventory Maintenance
- Microsoft Office
- Monitoring Vital Signs
- National Patient Safety Goals/Core Measures
- Needs Assessment
- Nursing Performance Assessments
- Obtaining Cultures
- Obtaining Peripheral Venous Blood
- Operating Plans Development
- Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Patient Advocacy
- Patient Care Assessment & Oversight
- Patient Complaint Prevention and Response
- Patient Condition Monitoring
- Patient Examination
- Patient & Employee Rounding
- Patient Rights
- Patient Safety
- Patient/Employee education
- Payroll Processing
- Policy Formation and Implementation
- Prescription Drug Recommendations
- Preventive Healthcare
- Problem Resolution
- Procedure Assistance
- Process Implementation
- Quality Assurance
- Rehabilitation Assistance
- Research
- Resource Allocation & Monitoring
- Restraints & Use of Least Restrictive Device
- Root Cause Analysis
- Routine Examinations
- Seizure Precautions and Management
- Specialized Healthcare Referrals
- Specimen Collection
- Statistical Data Analysis
- Student Precepting
- Supervision
- Telemetry
- Test Interpretations
- Therapy and Counseling
- Time Management
- Training
- Treatment Planning and Plan Modification
- Treatment Preparation & Adaptation
- Unit Management
- Verbal, Written, and Interpersonal Communication Skills
- Wound Management
Accomplishments
- Maintained early staff retention rate on Medical Care Unit over 90% throughout pandemic and other organizational challenges
- Oversaw marked increased Press Ganey "would recommend scores" during time as a manager from 67th percentile to 97th percentile.
- Oversaw a reduction in Breakthru AMA rate from 36% to 14%
- Consistently perfect peer review scores of 100% for effective leadership
- Maintained fall, employee injury, serious safety event, infection, and patient injury rates well under organizational and national average.
- While an hourly manager worked over 1200 hours of voluntary overtime in 4 years.
- Oversaw over a 30% reduction of organizational restraints as seclusion and restraint committee chairman and eliminated use of mechanical restraints facility wide.
Hobbies
- Coaching: Over a decade of coaching experience in basketball, soccer, baseball, and softball at multiple levels.
- Continuing Education
- Reading and Book Collecting
- Sports
- Writing
Certification
- Licensed RN
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- Basic Life Support, CPR. and First Aid
- Trauma Informed Care Instructor
Timeline
Nursing Director
River Park Hospital
04.2022 - Current
RN Case Manager
Blessed At Home
04.2021 - Current
Nurse Manager Medical Care Unit
Southern Ohio Medical Center
10.2018 - 04.2022
Assistant Manager Senior Behavior Unit
Southern Ohio Medical Center
06.2015 - 10.2018
Logistics Manager
Masco Retail Cabinet Group
11.2006 - 06.2011
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Ohio University
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Shawnee State University
Associate of Applied Science - Law Enforcement And Technology
Ohio University
Criminal Justice
Ohio University
Finance And Marketing
Ohio State University Fisher College of Business