Denise Parrish
Summary
Dynamic Nurse Leader with a proven track record at excelling in multidisciplinary collaboration and quality assurance. Spearheaded initiatives that enhanced team performance and compliance, while managing a substantial budget. Passionate about mentoring and developing high-functioning teams to achieve clinical excellence and improve patient outcomes.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Manager- Labor and Delivery/ High Risk Antepartum
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, MI
03.2024 - Current
- Mentor, support, and lead 100+ employees in rapid pace, highly acute, labor and delivery unit
- Develops a high functioning team and creates a healthy environment through communication, continuous feedback, and respectful relations.
- Assumes 24-hour responsibility for administrative management of patient care areas
- Manages the development, implementation, evaluation, and improvement of policies and guidelines to assure clinical excellence.
- Manages and ensures regulatory and clinical initiative compliance
- Investigates and implements strategies for quality and safety concerns.
- Actively involved in education, evidence-based quality improvement, and performance excellence
- Manages department finance goals. Develops and manages operational and capital budget in collaboration with Nursing Administration, Vice President, and Chief Nursing Officer.
Quality & Outreach Coordinator
Michigan Medicine/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
03.2023 - 03.2024
- Responsible for 35 + collaborative hospitals across Michigan
- Develop and deliver collaborative-wide educational webinars, materials, and presentations.
- Counsel, support, and advise hospital interdisciplinary champion teams on obstetric quality initiatives.
- Manage collaborative-wide data gathering, interpretation, and dissemination.
- Use data for actionable insight and guide quality activities.
- Member of a high-functioning, multidisciplinary team dedicated to improving the experience and safety of birthing persons in Michigan.
- Use data and evidence to create a challenging pay-for-performance scorecard for 75 birthing hospitals across Michigan.
- Travel to multiple sites throughout Michigan to evaluate current quality activities and tailor performance goals to site-specific needs.
Clinical Practice Leader
Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital
Ann Arbor, MI
05.2019 - 03.2023
- Collaborates as a member of hospital leadership to achieve unit and organizational goals.
- Develop complex care plans for high-risk patients using evidence and best practice standards. Organize multidisciplinary teams to coordinate care from admission to discharge.
- Synthesize multiple data elements to evaluate and achieve quality patient outcomes.
- Supports the clinical and professional development of nursing colleagues through mentoring, coaching, feedback, and accountability.
- Ongoing acquisition of knowledge and skills to effect change in health care practice.
- Utilizes diverse teaching strategies and principles to educate colleagues.
- Clinical expert, developing quality practice, policy, and workflow processes for safe, efficient care.
- Responsible for the clinical practice of 160+ team members.
- Complete ongoing assessments and yearly evaluations of team members.
- Organizes, supports, and leads performance improvement through team debriefing, learning from defects, and root cause analysis.
- Problem-solving for continuous improvement through A3/PDCA Process
- Develops and manages quality improvement projects and processes for safe care and regulatory standards.
- Collaborates and strategizes with obstetrical nursing and provider leadership to manage staffing, division census, high acuity patients, and logistical concerns.
- Implement Trinity Initiatives, Obstetric Initiatives(P4P), and MI-AIM Safety Bundles.
- Develop guidelines, educational content, audits, and simulations, and provide continuous coaching to meet requirements.
- Implemented EPIC medical record system and OBIX fetal monitoring system at the unit level. Serve as EMR resource for staff.
Education Specialist
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
Livonia, MI
02.2018 - 05.2019
- Promotes development and facilitation of hospital staff competency in line with regulatory requirements.
- Lead, coach, and mentor Education Coordinators.
- Leads team in curriculum planning and educational program implementation.
- Designs, teaches, facilitates, and evaluates educational programs.
OB Education Coordinator
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
Livonia, MI
01.2010 - 02.2018
- Education of 50+ nurses; including special care nursery and two operating rooms.
- Audit charts for quality and compliance. Author and implement new/revised policies and protocols.
- Collaboration with the Chief of Obstetrics regarding evidence-based practice improvements while providing the safest delivery of patient care.
- Create a curriculum to meet initiative objectives while reaching a variety of learning styles.
Obstetrical Nurse
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
Livonia, MI
05.1997 - 02.2018
- Perform in a variety of nursing roles including, charge, triage, labor, postpartum, and special care nursery.
- Unit and hospital resources for difficult intravenous catheter insertion. Adult, newborn, pediatric, and geriatric populations.
- Responsible for the safe delivery of care while promoting satisfaction during the hospital stay.
- Competent to circulate and scrub c-sections.
Adjunct Professor-Obstetrics
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI
09.2014 - 01.2018
- Instruction and supervision of nursing students during the obstetrical rotation.
- Promoting critical thinking while creating an environment open to learning, increasing confidence, and developing constructive self-evaluation.
- Act as a role model and mentor.
Education
M.S. - Nursing with Education Specialty
Aspen University
Denver, Co04.2018
B.S. - Nursing
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI01.2008
A.D. - Nursing
Schoolcraft College
Livonia, MI05.1997
Skills
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Performance enhancement
- Team leadership
- Quality assurance
- Regulatory compliance
- Policy formulation
- Budget oversight
- Data analysis
Certification
- AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Instructor
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt – University of Michigan 2022
- National Certification Corporation- Electronic Fetal Monitoring
- National Certification Corporation- Inpatient Obstetrics
- Basic Life Support and Neonatal Resuscitation Program
Publications
Labor support for intended vaginal birth. Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guideline., Association of Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jogn.2022.04.006
Timeline
Nurse Manager- Labor and Delivery/ High Risk Antepartum
Henry Ford Health System
03.2024 - Current
Quality & Outreach Coordinator
Michigan Medicine/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
03.2023 - 03.2024
Clinical Practice Leader
Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital
05.2019 - 03.2023
Education Specialist
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
02.2018 - 05.2019
Adjunct Professor-Obstetrics
University of Detroit Mercy
09.2014 - 01.2018
OB Education Coordinator
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
01.2010 - 02.2018
Obstetrical Nurse
St. Mary Mercy Hospital
05.1997 - 02.2018
M.S. - Nursing with Education Specialty
Aspen University
B.S. - Nursing
University of Detroit Mercy
A.D. - Nursing
Schoolcraft College