Catherine Mbugua
Raleigh,NC
Summary
Nurse care manager with over 20 years of experience in providing patient-centered care and leading multidisciplinary teams. Skilled in developing and implementing individualized care plans, managing resources, and educating patients and families. Seeking to leverage my expertise and passion for improving health outcomes in a challenging and rewarding role. Caring, hardworking and service-oriented Registered Nurse with more than 20 years of experience. Well-versed in offering evidence-based, therapeutic care. Collaborative and motivational leader with expertise in training new nursing staff while providing top-notch service to patient populations. Driven Registered Nurse with 20 years of experience caring for patients within geriatric setting. Smoothly deliver comprehensive patient care and delegate tasks according to patient needs and personnel skillsets. Dedicated to providing top quality care within multidisciplinary team environment.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
RN Home Health Care Manager
Bayada Home Health Care NC
08.2023 - Current
- Leading the coordination of multidisciplinary team to deliver a holistic, person centric care management program to a diverse health plan population with a variety of health and social needs
- Use the care management process to assess and develop
- Implement, monitor, and evaluate care plans designed to optimize the patient’s health across the care continuum
- Conducting skilled observations and assessments of patients’ health status and developing individualized care plans in collaboration with physicians and other health care providers
- Completing Medication Reconciliations for patients and coordinating with their doctors to ensure appropriate treatments, and therapies as prescribed by physicians and monitoring their effects
- Providing wound care, pain management, and infection control as needed
- Educating patients and their families on how to manage their health conditions, prevent complications, and promote wellness
- Coordinating and communicating with other members of the health care team to ensure continuity and quality of care
- Documenting and reporting patient care activities and outcomes according to agency policies and regulations
- Adhering to professional standards, ethical principles, and legal requirements of home health nursing practice.
Care Manager
Centene / Wellcare of NC
08.2019 - 08.2023
- Conducting comprehensive assessments of patients’ health status, needs, preferences, and goals
- Developing, implementing, and evaluating care plans that are patient-centered, evidence-based, and cost-effective
- Providing education, counseling, and support to patients and families on disease management, prevention, and wellness
- Coordinating and facilitating referrals, transitions, and follow-ups across the continuum of care
- Advocating for patients’ rights and interests and ensuring quality and safety of care
- Collaborating and communicating with multidisciplinary teams and community resources to optimize patient outcomes and satisfaction
- Documenting and reporting patient progress, outcomes, and interventions.
Unit Manager / Nurse / MDS Coordinator
Capital Nursing Health & Rehab
Raleigh, NC
- 08.2019
- Hospital Bed Size – 109 beds
- Unit Bed Size – 30 beds
- Patient Ratio – 1:28
- Charting – Acute charting via Point Click Care (PCC)
- Types of Cases – Acute patients, patients receiving skill services such as rehabilitation, wound care, respiratory care, prescription administration of medication and treatments and evaluation of response to medication, provide general nursing care to patients, maintain required accurate documentation, Experience with blood draws and administering IV medications, maintaining IV lines and IV dressings, complete patient admission to the facility, discharge assessments patients from the facility, obtaining blood culture samples, tube feeding administration, Wound Vac application and care, and maintenance, pressure ulcer assessments and care, post care for orthopedics patients, pain management, patient teaching on medications, symptom monitoring, caring for patients after orthopedic surgeries, providing direct care to rehabilitation patents, hospice care, transitional end of life care, crisis interventions, etc.
MDS Nurse Consultant / MDS Coordinator
Liberty HealthCare & Rehabilitation Services
Wilmington, NC
01.2015 - 08.2018
- Managed 14 nursing facilities within North Carolina as a clinical nursing consultant
- Duties include Utilization of skilled Medicare services, managing the interdisciplinary team members (Social workers, dietary, Activity, MDS support nurse) at each facility, provide training for orientation and new CMS updates, reviewed and updated company policies, Provided teaching to nurses and CNAs on practical skills and accurate documentation, conducted mock surveys in facilities to ensure compliance with practical skills and procedures as required by the state and federal.
Unit Manager / Staff Nurse / MDS Coordinator
Oaks of Carolina Healthcare & Rehabilitation Services
Raleigh, NC
12.2008 - 12.2014
- Hospital Bed Size – 150 beds
- Unit Bed Size – 28 beds
- Patient Ratio – 1:28
- Charting – Acute daily charting via American Health-Tech (AHT).
- Types of Cases – Acute care patients, cardiac monitor, managing pressure ulcers Tracheostomy care, tube feeding patients, admission assessments for patients from the hospital, home, doctors office, discharge assessments and preparations for patients to the discharged to various destinations such as to other facilities, home, hospital, medication administration per MD prescription, hospice care, transitional end of life care, crisis interventions, etc.
Supervisor Staff Nurse
Rex Rehabilitation Healthcare
Raleigh, NC
05.2002 - 11.2008
- Hospital Bed Size – 130 beds
- Unit Bed Size – 30 beds
- Patient Ratio – 1:30
- Charting – Acute charting
- Duties – Medication administration
- Types of Cases – Caring for patients undergoing physical, speech and occupational therapies, blood glucose monitoring, taking care of diabetic patients, cardiac monitoring, after surgery care, wound care, pressure ulcer care, tube feeding, administering blood, hospice care, transitional end of life care, crisis interventions, etc.
Education
BS in Nursing (BSN) -
University of Maryland
Baltimore, MD01.1997
BS in Psychology -
Morgan State University
01.1992
Certification
Current CPR / BLS
Timeline
RN Home Health Care Manager
Bayada Home Health Care NC
08.2023 - Current
Care Manager
Centene / Wellcare of NC
08.2019 - 08.2023
MDS Nurse Consultant / MDS Coordinator
Liberty HealthCare & Rehabilitation Services
01.2015 - 08.2018
Unit Manager / Staff Nurse / MDS Coordinator
Oaks of Carolina Healthcare & Rehabilitation Services
12.2008 - 12.2014
Supervisor Staff Nurse
Rex Rehabilitation Healthcare
05.2002 - 11.2008
Unit Manager / Nurse / MDS Coordinator
Capital Nursing Health & Rehab
- 08.2019
BS in Nursing (BSN) -
University of Maryland
BS in Psychology -
Morgan State University