Christopher Strayhan

Accountable for the effective delivery of competent, compassionate, and efficient patient care. Responsibilities include coordination of patient care; supervision of a professional team that includes multiple nursing and other staff as appropriate; administrative and budget management; troubleshooting of problem areas; organizational change management; ensuring compliance with accreditation and regulatory standards; quality assurance/quality improvement; safety and risk management requirements as well as actualization of hospital and unit policies, goals and objectives.

**Patient Care Manager I vs. II designation is based on span of control, hours of operation, and level of unit complexity.

• Manage the delivery of nursing services and patient care to meet quality, clinical and utilization standards as well as performance measures
• Ensures patient care and quality standards are met and comply with federal, state, and local regulatory requirements
• Assisted with development and implementation of action plans to improve staff development and the delivery of patient care
• Supervise dayshift on day-to-day activities of the unit, inc
• Monitoring quality of service and utilization standards
• Advisor for J6 nursing quality committee; with a focus on HAPI prevention, CLABSI, and foley audits
• Facilitates with onboarding, continued education and direct patient care when needed
• Key Achievement: Reducing the total number of HAPI's from 5 in FY21 to 2 in FY22.
• Educated and evaluated clinical and support staff regarding care quality management regulations and standards of care.

• Demonstrated leadership skills as a resource nurse, bedside nurse, FASST and preceptor for a 15-bed medical intensive care unit with a focus in medical oncology
• Shared leadership council (Research & Innovation council & Magnet) Quality improvement committee (Chair): Exceeding goals related to CLABSI prevention, CAUTI and HAPI
• Competent in performing ultrasound guided peripheral IV
• Exercised frequent use of advanced critical care nursing skills
• Including titration and monitoring vasoactive medications, utilization of ACLS algorithms.
• Stayed current with health system initiatives and incorporated evidence-based practice and research into care routine.
• Monitored patients, evaluated results, and recommended further courses of treatment to quickly improve patient outcomes.

• Staff units and hospitals in critical need
• Experience in a variety of critical care units (CVICU, Trauma, Neuro/Surgical & Medical)

• Joint commission task force
• Quality Improvement projects
• Preceptor
• Orchestrated quality-driven, cost-effective care in high-volume academic medical setting.
• Provided clinical instructions to orient new nurses and potential student nurses to achieve training outcomes.