CHRISTY DAAE
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving
Fort Worth,TX
1
Certification
29
years of professional experience
Highly skilled and enthusiastic individual with over 28 years of experience in the nursing profession and leadership roles. Area of expertise include leading effective teams, quality improvement, safety and risk focus, emergency department, urgent care, perioperative, and steel industry settings. Excellent reputation for solving problems, continuous improvement initiatives, improving the consumer and family experience, and driving overall operational improvements. Skilled at improving processes, maximizing team productivity and reducing costs to achieve sustainable operations. Also, experience with successfully overseeing human resources, budgeting, supply management, and patient services by developing and leading productive and efficient teams.
Work History
Director of Emergency Services
2 Years 11 Months- Enhanced patient experience scores and nurse domain scores for FY24-FY26
- 94th percentile for patient experience
- Sepsis-1 performance: 93.4 for YTD FY26
- Reduced wait times for patients presenting in the Emergency Department by refining triage processes and optimizing patient flow management strategies
- Improved Length of Stay: FY23 180 min to 165 min YTD for FY25
- Championed the adoption of new technologies within the department to improve efficiency (Pulsara, electronic staffing board)
Administrative Consultant
4 Years- Consultant as needed
- Evaluate job performance and safety policies against metrics
- Generate reports of findings to help management with making key decisions.
- Review financial reports with stakeholders
Facility Nurse Director
2 Years 4 Months- Manage busy urgent care and hospital outpatient emergency department
- Lead registration, radiology, and nursing teams
- Improved patient experience scores- 95th percentile for 2021-2023
- Decreased blood culture contamination rates- from 8% to 1.2%
- Lead multidisciplinary groups to improve core metrics with sepsis, stroke, and cardiac care
- Developing strategies to target nursing and patient satisfaction issues as well as improve metric and patient outcomes.
Director of Nursing
3 Years 1 Month- Direct day-to-day administrative and operational functions for 100 bed Emergency Department, providing guidance and leadership to over 290 employees
- Established new guidelines and updated existing guidelines to improve standard of care for trauma patients resulting in decreases length of stay in department
- Collaborated with staff, managers, physicians, and external groups to decrease sepsis mortality by improving compliance with CMS guidelines
- Interdisciplinary teams to improve door to balloon time for patients experiencing acute myocardial infarction
- Led team to implement "straight to cath lab" approach in patients experiencing STEMIs (both via EMS and walk in patients)
- Interdisciplinary team to improve door to intravenous/ intra-arterial anti-thrombolytic for patients experiencing acute strokes resulting in 5 min decrease in ED dwell time
- Established guidelines and updated existing policies to improve care for critical patient by creating a "resus" nurse role
- Improve patient's length of stay in the Emergency Department by utilizing inner waiting areas as treatment areas
RN Manager
4 Years 11 Months- Oversee and manage approximately 250 staff members and support staff in patient care activities while maintaining high level of staff morale and professionalism
- Work in collaboration with ED director, managers and supervisors to improve patient flow through ED resulting in care areas converted to yield more places to care for patients
- Fostered improvement in all operational facets, including staff development, personnel training and standards of patient care
- Developed strategy to target nursing and patient satisfaction issues, improve response and patient care quality and suggest actionable improvements to promote hospital-wide quality and safety initiatives
RN Supervisor
7 Years 7 Months- Primary care, assessment and evaluation on Emergency Department patients Organized and led a number of committees and projects to improve patient care, decrease length of stay, and improve ED throughput
- Oversaw and managed clinical and support staff in patient care activities while maintaining a high level of staff morale and professionalism while in charge on the unit
Registered Nurse
7 Years 4 Months- Primary care, assessment and evaluation of ill and/or injured patients
- Maintained accurate records of patient care, condition, progress and concerns.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing Administration
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Bachelor of Arts - Biology, Spanish
Skills
293 bed community hospital
50 bed Emergency Department; approximately 85
000 visits annually
720 bed
Magnet-designated
Level II trauma center
100 bed Emergency Department with approximately 120
000 visits annually
Freestanding ER & urgent care management
Cross-functional team collaboration
Team cohesion development
Additional Information
- 2022 Top 3 Best of Denton County Winner- Urgent Care Clinic
- 2021 Top 3 Best of Denton County Winner- Urgent Care Clinic
- 2017 Graduate of the Talent Accelerated Program
- 2016 Leadership of Excellence Award
- 2013 Living the Mission Award
- 2008 Great 100 Nurse of DFW
- 2006 Leadership of Excellence Award
- 2004 Clinical Leadership Award
Certification
- NE-BC
- CEN
- ACLS
- PALS
- TNCC
Timeline
Director of Emergency Services
Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Irving
10.2023 - CurrentRead More
Facility Nurse Director
CAM Innovative Services (Emergency Medicine Physician Group)
07.2021 - 11.2023Read More
Administrative Consultant
Alexander's Machine & Maintenance Service Co, Inc
12.2020 - 12.2024Read More
Director of Nursing
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
11.2017 - 12.2020Read More
RN Manager
Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital
12.2012 - 11.2017Read More
RN Supervisor
Texas Health Harris Methodist
05.2005 - 12.2012Read More
Registered Nurse
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
01.1998 - 05.2005Read More
The University of Texas At Arlington
Master of Science from Nursing Administration
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The University of Texas At Arlington
Bachelor of Science from Nursing
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Texas Christian University
Bachelor of Arts from Biology, Spanish
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