Colleen Tweedley
Southampton
Summary
Healthcare professional prepared for nursing roles, bringing substantial experience in patient care and medical procedures. Highly focused on team collaboration and achieving positive patient outcomes, adaptable to changing healthcare needs. Expertise in patient assessment, care planning, and medical documentation, coupled with compassionate approach.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
RN II Case Manager
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ
09.2025 - Current
- Administered patient care, ensuring comfort and safety in diverse clinical settings.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop personalized care plans for patients.
- Mentored new nursing staff on best practices and hospital protocols, enhancing team performance.
- Implemented patient education programs to improve health literacy and outcomes.
RN 1 Care Case and Disease Management (Medicaid)
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey
02.2024 - 09.2025
- Help you coordinate services with your doctors, pharmacies and home care agencies.
- Schedule doctor appointments, transportation and translation service
- Provide education to help you manage your chronic health condition
- Be there for you to answer any questions you have about your health and/or your benefits.
- Provide resources for housing, behavioral health services, food, finance and education.
Staff Nurse Per Diem
Shore Medical Center
05.2022 - 02.2024
- Emergency Department
Staff Nurse Per Diem
Virtua Health System, Marlton, NJ Division
03.2021 - 02.2024
Travel Nurse 13 Week Assignment
Inspira Vineland
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Emergency Department
Assistant Nurse Manager – Adult/Pediatric Department
Virtua Health System, Voorhees, NJ Division
03.2020 - 03.2021
- Assist Nurse Director/Manager in overall manager/leadership responsibilities for assigned department. Assist with coaching and counseling employees to maintain high performance standards, and provides input into performance evaluations.
- Delegate tasks as appropriate based upon patient need and staff qualifications.
- Maintains day to day operations, including items such as bed flow; where applicable, patient rounding, collaborating with other departments, chart checks and clinical support. Models appropriate behaviors to support customer satisfaction.
- Demonstrates and promotes fiscal responsibility. Assists with coordinating inventory consignment and purchasing contracts, billing process/issues and report generating when appropriate.
- Assists with managing staff levels by implementation and coordination of unit staffing for nursing care.
- Monitors quality metrics and facilitates performance improvement activities, by reviewing charts, and coaching staff appropriately. Thoughput.
Clinical Operations Director
Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ
03.2019 - 03.2020
- Job responsibilities included by not limited to ensuring that staffing was adequate for every department, handling patient/family complaints throughout the entire hospital.
- Throughput with Emergency Department, Trauma admitting and PACU, appropriate bed placement as well as all incoming patient transfers.
- Ensuring safe patient handling and constant communication with all disciplines and floors in the hospital.
- Adequately placing upgraded patients to the appropriate floor and discipline as needed.
Per Diem Staff Nurse – Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department
Virtua Health System, Voorhees NJ Division
05.2016 - 03.2020
Flow Manager – Emergency Department
Cooper University Hospital, Camden NJ
03.2017 - 03.2019
- The ED flow manager’s primary responsibility is to facilitate flow through the ED, delegate care to the ED care teams and assign patients, ensuring that workload is balanced and delegates tasks appropriately, employing resources as needed to assure quality and efficient care.
- Ensures the delivery of patient care through the coordination of customer services and the leadership and management of he Emergency Department and Clinical Decision Unit at the direction of the Clinical Director.
- Assists Clinical Director in coordinating interdepartmental and ancillary activities to ensure quality, cost-effective patients care.
- Assists the Clinical Director in leading the patient care team to meet the needs of the customers and to achieve departmental objectives.
- Assumes responsibility and accountability for the direction and implementation of patient care services within the Emergency Department and Clinical Decision Unit at the direction of the Clinical Director and in their absence.
Staff Nurse – Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department
Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ
07.2012 - 03.2017
Per Diem Staff Nurse – Emergency Department
Virtua Health System, Mt. Holly NJ Division
05.2014 - 05.2016
Staff Nurse – Emergency Department
Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury, NJ
10.2011 - 07.2012
Staff Nurse – Total Joint and Spine and Stroke Unit
Virtua Health System, Marlton NJ Division
09.2009 - 12.2011
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, Arizona01.2011
Diploma - Nursing, Associates in Applied Science
Camden County College/Helene Fuld School of Nursing
Blackwood, NJ05.2009
Skills
- Basic life support
- Clinical judgment
- Compassion and empathy
- Discharge planning
- Pediatric advanced life support
- Advanced cardiac life support
- Medication and IV administration
- Patient assessments
- Team coordination
- Medication administration
- Strong clinical judgment
- Patient monitoring
- Precepting
- Nursing staff leadership
- Licensed RN
- Care plan development
- Professional bedside manner
- Case management
- Complex Problem-solving
- HIPAA education
- EMR / EHR
- Chronic disease management
- Acute care expertise
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
- Telemetry monitoring
- Emergency care
- Emergency response
- Emergency procedures
- Critical care
- Infant vitals monitoring
- Insulin medication assistance
- Intake and discharge
- Chart updating
- Oxygen saturation standards
- Procedure preparations
- Maintaining privacy
- Proper catheter insertion/removal
- Collecting vitals
- Lab result interpretation
- IV setup
- Performing ekgs
- Patient discharge
- Tracheostomy care
- Administering immunizations
- Diabetes management
- Intravenous therapy
- Wound care
- EMR systems
- Care planning
- Staff supervision
- Direct patient care
Certification
BLS AHA Expires 09/2025
LICENSURE
- License Number 26NR14275800
- Expires May 31, 2027
Timeline
RN II Case Manager
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ
09.2025 - Current
RN 1 Care Case and Disease Management (Medicaid)
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey
02.2024 - 09.2025
Staff Nurse Per Diem
Shore Medical Center
05.2022 - 02.2024
Travel Nurse 13 Week Assignment
Inspira Vineland
01.2022 - 05.2022
Staff Nurse Per Diem
Virtua Health System, Marlton, NJ Division
03.2021 - 02.2024
Assistant Nurse Manager – Adult/Pediatric Department
Virtua Health System, Voorhees, NJ Division
03.2020 - 03.2021
Clinical Operations Director
Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ
03.2019 - 03.2020
Flow Manager – Emergency Department
Cooper University Hospital, Camden NJ
03.2017 - 03.2019
Per Diem Staff Nurse – Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department
Virtua Health System, Voorhees NJ Division
05.2016 - 03.2020
Per Diem Staff Nurse – Emergency Department
Virtua Health System, Mt. Holly NJ Division
05.2014 - 05.2016
Staff Nurse – Adult and Pediatric Emergency Department
Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ
07.2012 - 03.2017
Staff Nurse – Emergency Department
Underwood Memorial Hospital, Woodbury, NJ
10.2011 - 07.2012
Staff Nurse – Total Joint and Spine and Stroke Unit
Virtua Health System, Marlton NJ Division
09.2009 - 12.2011
Diploma - Nursing, Associates in Applied Science
Camden County College/Helene Fuld School of Nursing
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
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