Christine Cox

Effective and resourceful Nurse Manager with excellent communication, conflict resolution, and problem-solving abilities with a history of meeting company goals by utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new challenges to best enhance the organizational brand. Adept in improving processes that maximize resources and reduce costs to achieve sustainable operations. Superb coordination skills focused on multidisciplinary collaboration to drive quality improvements. Expert at coaching nursing staff to reach full potential and deliver superb patient satisfaction while maintaining employee motivation and retention strategies. Champions interdisciplinary relations to meet industry needs for business growth. Informed and insightful on industry standards and accreditation requirements.

• American Nurses Association (ANA)
• Oncology Nursing Society (ONS)
• American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP)
• Academy of MedSurg Nurses (AMSN)
• American Nephrology Nurse Association (ANNA)

• Culture Champion Award, 2022.
• “DFW Great 100 Nurses” Award, 2019.
• Quality Cup Award, 2019.
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, 2019.
• “Healing Hands, Caring Hearts” Award, 2016.
• Nominated for multiple "Clinical Excellence" awards in nursing and leadership, 2014-2019.

Additional work history and references available upon request.

• Professional Outcomes Council, Vice Chair, & Chair
• Clinical Excellence Council, Vice Chair, & Chair
• Leadership Collaboration Council, Vice Chair
• Patient Flow Committee, Member
• Patient & Family Experience, Manager Champion
• North Texas Organization for Nursing Leadership, Advisory Board Member

• Led a large multidisciplinary team in the development of a scheduled admission process for our chemotherapy patients resulting in a delay decrease of 3 days on average utilizing Lean Six Sigma Principles.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team to organize and develop an Oncology Specialty Development Course to increase the knowledge and care delivered to our oncology patients by nurses newly exposed to this specialty.
• Helped developed a new blood culture order set that is being adopted by the system to increase accuracy and accountability inline with our CLABSI reduction focus.
• Highly Reliable Rounding Coach for other unit managers to foster a new culture resulting in substantially improved Net Promoter Scores Scores (NPS) for our facility.
• Implemented a Let's Get Moving! improvement plan which increased the patient's daily ambulation resulting in a decreased length of stay to obtain a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt.