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Carla Carter-Monteith

Southaven,MS

Summary

Versatile Registered Nurse with 25 years’ experience in perioperative and clinical research nursing. Established organizational and leadership skills complimented by the ability to meet cost and quality of care objectives. Recognized by physicians, patients, nursing associates, and peers for the ability to coordinate and multi-task nursing procedures while providing excellent nursing care. Patient-focused Behavioral Health Nurse with [Number] years of experience working directly with hospitalized psychiatric patients. Thorough, detail-oriented team player comfortable working in challenging environments, including psychiatric wards. Compassionate individual successfully reaching difficult patients with humility and honesty. Seasoned nursing professional offering proven clinical knowledge, natural interpersonal strengths and technical abilities. Knowledgeable about EMR charting, medication administration and interdisciplinary collaboration focused on optimizing patient care and support. Quality-focused and efficiency-driven leader. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Talented Manager with expert team leadership, planning, and organizational skills built during successful career. Smoothly equip employees to independently handle daily functions and meet customer needs. Diligent trainer and mentor with exceptional management abilities and results-driven approach. Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Behavioral Health Nurse Manager

Veteran's Administration Healthcare
03.2023 - 10.2023
  • Developed strong working relationships with community partners to facilitate appropriate discharge planning and aftercare support for patients.
  • Advocated for patients'' rights and autonomy by actively participating in treatment team meetings, presenting patients'' perspectives and ensuring their voices were heard.
  • Streamlined documentation processes to ensure timely and accurate completion of medical records for optimal patient care continuity.
  • Assisted in developing hospital-wide initiatives aimed at improving overall quality of care within the behavioral health department.
  • Reduced behavioral incidents by developing and implementing individualized patient treatment plans.
  • Assisted in calming patients using recognized best practice techniques with help from assistants and guards.
  • Enhanced interdisciplinary team collaboration through effective communication and coordination of patient care.

Operating Room Nurse

Baptist Memorial Hospital - Crittenden
08.2019 - 03.2023
  • Prepare operating room to ensure safety of patients
  • Pre-operative education to patients and families
  • Maintain communication with physicians and other staff
  • Documentation of operative procedure.
  • Increased patient satisfaction by providing comprehensive explanations of procedures and answering questions regarding their care plan.
  • Performed preoperative assessments on patients and evaluated overall health.
  • Provided high level of individualized care to adult patients across multiple medical specialties.
  • Educated patients and families on illnesses, medications and treatment plans.
  • Collaborated with members of patients' healthcare team to deliver appropriate level of care.

Study Coordinator

NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER
08.2016 - 01.2019
  • Prepare operating room to ensure safety of patients
  • Pre-operative education to patients and families
  • Maintain communication with physicians and other staff
  • Documentation of operative procedure
  • Assess eligibility of prospective study participants for current clinical trials
  • Accurately complete all data required
  • Assure all drug accountability records.

Operating Room Nurse

NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER
06.2016 - 08.2016
  • Prepare operating room to ensure safety of patients
  • Pre-operative education to patients and families
  • Maintain communication with physicians and other staff
  • Documentation of operative procedure
  • Assess eligibility of prospective study participants for current clinical trials
  • Accurately complete all data required
  • Assure all drug accountability records.

Research Nurse Coordinator

RESEARCH, INC. – VA MEDICAL CENTER
10.2015 - 06.2016
  • Assess eligibility of prospective study participants for current clinical trials
  • Manage industry sponsored research studies
  • Supervise, train and mentor clinical research staff as needed
  • Accurately complete all data required
  • Maintain all regulatory documents
  • Assure all drug accountability records
  • Provide education and counseling to patients and their family
  • Seek continued professional development in research
  • Assist PI in identifying and evaluating research protocols by reviewing new protocols for appropriateness for clinical site
  • Prepare and ship study samples to centralized laboratories.

Perioperative Nurse - Operating Room

ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL
05.2013 - 10.2015
  • Provide direct and individualized nursing care to patients
  • Prepare operating room prior to surgery to ensure safety of patient and staff
  • Pre-operative education to patient and families
  • Maintain communication with physicians, nurses, and other staff
  • Documentation (Cerner) on patient throughout procedure
  • Preceptor to University of Memphis nursing student as well as new employees
  • Perioperative Nurse - orthopaedics (specialty).

Staff Nurse

PARKWOOD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM
08.2012 - 10.2013
  • Staffing 6 acute care and residential units – total 110 beds
  • Performing chart audits for accuracy and compliance
  • Maintain effective communication with management and other members of the management team
  • May also assume Charge Nurse Responsibilities as required
  • Perform comprehensive nursing assessments on all patients within 8 hours of admission
  • Identify patient problems based upon data collected through nursing assessment as well as integrating information obtained through family, significant other and/or primary care giver
  • Assesses educational and spiritual needs
  • Assesses and communicates to dietitian any special nutritional or dietary requirements considering the needs of all patients
  • Assesses patients’ major strengths and weaknesses
  • Assesses vital signs and reports all abnormalities
  • Demonstrates proficiency in administration of AIMS testing and AIMS testing protocol
  • Demonstrates clinical understanding of both drug and alcohol toxicity; consistently and correctly identifies patients in states of detoxification; identification of withdrawal signs is consistently correct
  • Formulates nursing plan of care within 8 hours of admission noting patient needs, age, behaviors and concerns identified through nursing assessment
  • Analyzes data and develops realistic and measurable short/long term goals desired outcomes incorporating patient’s and family’s goals, when appropriate
  • Actively participates in collaborative treatment team planning for assigned patients
  • Demonstrates documentation responsibilities in discharge planning, discharge of patients, AMA discharges, unit to unit transfers and emergency transfers
  • Assures activities of daily living needs of patients are met
  • Assesses patients in crisis and acts according to ensure patient and unit safety
  • Accurately maintains medication administration record (MAR)
  • Teaches medication management to patient.

Clinical Research Specialist

MEDTRONIC, INC.
02.2012 - 05.2013
  • Oversees, designs, plans and develops clinical evaluation projects
  • Designs experimental protocols and patient record forms
  • Provides technical services for the collection, review, maintenance and tracking of regulatory documents from clinical sites
  • Prepares protocols and conducts clinical studies of products that have been determined to satisfy a medical need and/or offer a commercial potential
  • Serves as a medical/scientific consultant to marketing and/or research project teams and government regulatory agencies
  • Monitors and/or interprets results of clinical investigations in preparation for new-drug or device application
  • Assist with the resolution of specific site problems as appropriate
  • Maintain correspondence with site and enter into clinical administrative database
  • As appropriate, attend periodic training sessions to increase and maintain knowledge of FDA regulations, drug development process and regulatory documents requirements
  • Responsibilities include addressing study and site management and documentation issues of moderate complexity under direct supervision, utilizing analysis and judgment to effect solutions to meet goals and objectives
  • May at senior levels, establish the conditions essential for determining the safety, efficacy, medical usefulness and marketability of drug or medical device product candidates
  • Retained study documentation and prepared for archival
  • Conducted regularly scheduled meetings with the study team, identified/assisted with the resolution of any study related issues
  • Communicated with regional colleagues, and Global CDA on issues resolution, timelines and status updates, contingency or mitigation plans.

Clinical Research Coordinator

SARAH CANNON RESEARCH INSTITUTE
08.2010 - 02.2012
  • Support enrolling patients onto clinical trials through recruitment, screening, enrollment and follow up of eligible subjects according to protocol requirements
  • Developed and maintained strong working relationships with investigators and study site staff promoting patient recruitment strategies
  • Reviews study design and inclusion/exclusion criteria with physician and patient
  • Ensures integrity of the data submitted on case report forms or other data collection tools
  • Creates study specific tools for source documentation when not provided by sponsor
  • Generates and tracks drug shipments and supplies as needed
  • Responsible for completion of all required documentation according to site works guidelines
  • Assured compliance with GCP/ICH guidelines and FDA regulations, accuracy of data, drug accountability, query resolution for data management and clinical site management
  • Ability to communicate and work effectively with a diverse team of professionals
  • Collect data for all serious and non-serious adverse events, report events, and follow-up on events according to protocols
  • Review and verify CRFs and other clinical data for completeness and accuracy; assist study personnel with query resolution; conduct 100% source data verification during CRF review/collection
  • Assisted with all pre-study, initiation, routine monitoring, and close-out visits
  • Ability to work independently in a fast pace environment with minimal supervision at off-site facilities and handle multiple protocols (up to 15)
  • Attend project team meetings and investigator meetings
  • Liaison with other vendors
  • Retained study documentation and prepared for archival.

Clinical Research Associate, RN

ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
07.2006 - 08.2010
  • Coordinate the clinical care and research activities for patients and families
  • Verified patient eligibility and compliance for protocol requirements
  • Monitored case report forms and/or individual patient research charts
  • Prepared adverse event reports
  • Prepared for audits of assigned studies
  • Assisted in the renewal of grant for protocol
  • Processed cytokines for protocol
  • Enter protocol specific electronic orders
  • Obtained tumor and bone measurements on protocol patients
  • Extract data for subjects on protocol schedule to investigators
  • Oversee the Hepatology clinic (scheduling, patient follow-up, and support to physicians)
  • Coordination of clinical trial recruitment, process management, and related administrative functions.

Nurse Scheduler

ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
10.2004 - 07.2006
  • Assisted with outpatient procedures within the office.

Office Nurse - Registered Nurse

MEMPHIS SURGERY & VASCULAR ASSOCIATES
06.2003 - 10.2004
  • Nurse for Dr
  • Virginia McGrath Weaver – Bariatric Program – and Dr
  • Hugh Francis, III
  • CPT AND ICD-9 Coding/Charging
  • Booking surgery cases/tests, precertification, patient instructions for surgery
  • Maintaining patient charts, triage incoming patient calls
  • Assisting other physicians in the office with patient responsibilities
  • Assisted with outpatient procedures within the office.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing -

Union University
Germantown, TN
01.2007

Associates Degree: Nursing (Registered Nurse Program) -

Northwest Mississippi Community College
Senatobia, MS
01.2000

Skills

  • Electronic Data Capture (EDC)
  • InForm
  • Medidata Rave
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft Word
  • Outlook
  • Power Point
  • Cerner
  • CPRS
  • Centricity
  • GE
  • Psychiatric assessment
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
  • Suicide Risk Assessment
  • Anxiety Reduction
  • Self-Harm Prevention
  • Depression Management
  • Mental health counseling
  • Care Plan Development
  • Task Delegation
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Problem-Solving
  • Time Management
  • Attention to Detail
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Multitasking
  • Multitasking Abilities
  • Reliability
  • Excellent Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Strong Clinical Judgment
  • Organizational Skills
  • Team Collaboration
  • Active Listening
  • Effective Communication
  • Adaptability and Flexibility
  • Certified in CPR/AED
  • Blood Draw and Sample Collection
  • Vitals monitoring
  • Microsoft Office
  • Safety Protocols
  • Infection Control
  • Accurate Documentation
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Care Coordination
  • Documentation
  • Professionalism
  • Training staff

Certification

  • BLS Certified
  • IATA Training
  • CITI Training
  • Registered Nurse, Multi State License (MS), True

Accomplishments

Sigma Theta Tau International, Honor Society of Nursing

Othernames

Carla Renee Joyner Carter

Timeline

Behavioral Health Nurse Manager

Veteran's Administration Healthcare
03.2023 - 10.2023

Operating Room Nurse

Baptist Memorial Hospital - Crittenden
08.2019 - 03.2023

Study Coordinator

NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER
08.2016 - 01.2019

Operating Room Nurse

NORTH MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER
06.2016 - 08.2016

Research Nurse Coordinator

RESEARCH, INC. – VA MEDICAL CENTER
10.2015 - 06.2016

Perioperative Nurse - Operating Room

ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL
05.2013 - 10.2015

Staff Nurse

PARKWOOD BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM
08.2012 - 10.2013

Clinical Research Specialist

MEDTRONIC, INC.
02.2012 - 05.2013

Clinical Research Coordinator

SARAH CANNON RESEARCH INSTITUTE
08.2010 - 02.2012

Clinical Research Associate, RN

ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
07.2006 - 08.2010

Nurse Scheduler

ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL
10.2004 - 07.2006

Office Nurse - Registered Nurse

MEMPHIS SURGERY & VASCULAR ASSOCIATES
06.2003 - 10.2004

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing -

Union University

Associates Degree: Nursing (Registered Nurse Program) -

Northwest Mississippi Community College

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