CHRISTOPHER D. HENRIE

Jointly tackled daily operational needs to meet Federal/State guidelines and corporate standards by identifying opportunities to mitigate risk as a proactive team member and nurse manager who:

• Analyzed/synthesized data and identified organizational/systemic deficiencies to determine/implement/evaluate QAPI measures.
• Oversaw QAPI design & scope, established PIP teams and assigned key roles/delegated tasks, and developed staff participation methods.
• Addressed grievances, abuse allegations, reportable incidents, and citations; and assisted with investigations, SOCs, RCAs, and POCs.
• Reviewed patient records and approved admissions; solved for cohort/compatibility issues based on enhanced barrier precautions.
• Facilitated safe/effective acute-care transfers for medication readjustments, necessary psychiatric holds, and medically emergent situations as needed.
• Assisted with new-hire onboarding orientation and conducted regular performance reviews; collaboratively implemented employee corrective action plans.
• Participated in weekly care conferences and discussed modifications to POC and psychotropic GDR’s.
• Collaborated with Registered Dietician and addressed patient nutritional needs and successfully improved rates of patient weight variances.
• Collaborated with Wound Care Nurse and successfully healed all acquired pressure sores and eliminated all in-house pressure sores.
• Audited nursing documentation, patient care plans, admission/discharge forms; and educated nursing supervisors to disseminate expectations for daily/weekly Medicare charting, lab results, new orders, consents, changed conditions, daily vitals, and weekly weights.

Ensured workplace efficiency/safety and solved for daily clinical/technical issues, delegated/prioritized tasks, and served as point of contact to patient representatives; facilitated communications between all nursing/medical personnel and other departments/disciplines/providers as the only Licensed Registered Nurse on duty for 300 bed facility during height of Covid Pandemic.

Effectively transitioned from nursing school graduate to working professional by developing practical bedside skills, sharp critical nursing judgement, and inspiring leadership to secure/supply/staff facility's first Sub-Acute Covid Unit upon initial positive admission during Covid Pandemic.