ELIANA SCHUTTE, RN

• Mentored junior nurses, fostering professional development and growth within the team.
• Enhanced patient care by developing and implementing efficient emergency room processes.
• Ensured high-quality patient care through rigorous monitoring of nursing standards and protocols.
• Streamlined documentation processes for improved accuracy and timeliness of medical records.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to optimize patient outcomes during medical emergencies.
• Participated in hospital-wide committees focused on improving safety measures within the facility.
• Developed comprehensive training programs for new hires, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality nursing care in the ER setting.
• Conducted regular audits of emergency department equipment inventory, ensuring optimal functionality when needed for patient care.
• Provided compassionate support to families during stressful emergency situations, demonstrating empathy and understanding while remaining professional at all times.
• Promoted a supportive work environment by addressing staff concerns and maintaining open communication channels.
• Managed crisis situations calmly, providing direction to staff for effective resolution of critical incidents.
• Maintained regulatory compliance by staying current on industry standards and updating hospital policies accordingly.
• Assessed staffing needs proactively, adjusting schedules to meet fluctuating patient volumes effectively.

Starting peripheral IV’s and administering infusions per order. Monitoring patient’s vital signs throughout infusion and ensuring patient safety and comfort.

• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team to evaluate patient data and determine patient care plans.
• Monitored patients, evaluated results and recommended further courses of treatment to quickly improve patient outcomes.
• Circulating nurse on a three-person team. Able to pre-op, circulate and recover heart cath patients.
• STEMI team leader
• Chest Pain Coordinator
• Administered nursing care to cardiac patients undergoing diagnostic, therapeutic or emergency services.
• Administered diagnostic angiograms, injecting intravenous dye for x-ray examination and using catheters to introduce tools needed for medical treatments.
• Performed fractional flow reserve tests to measure blood pressure and diagnose severity of restriction at blocked areas within arteries.
• Treated plaque buildup within arteries with angioplasty balloon procedures.
• Supported healthcare team by maintaining responsibility for electrocardiogram monitoring, defibrillation and cardio rehabilitation training.
• Installed bare metal, drug-eluting and bioabsorbable stents throughout vascular system.
• Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
• Supported physicians throughout introduction of medical devices and vascular closure with collagen plugs and stitches.

• Reduce hospital admissions and associated costs
• Improved quality of care, quality of life and patient experience
• Support people with heart failure to manage their condition
• Bridge the interface between PCP, secondary and tertiary care to facilitate and improve communication and integration of patient management
• Provide HCP's with a professional contact acting as a link to other specialist services and identifying when other services are recommended
• Provide education to, and upskill, care teams in the management of heart failure patients
• Providing direct care to patients including nursing assessments, medications and holistic consideration.

• Business development liaison that has consistently created new relationships with hospitals, specialty doctors, SNF's, ALF's, and memory care facilities.

• Provided ELNEC based education to nurses, social workers, and physicians on identifying and caring for patients in the last six months of their lives.

• Teaching communication skills to healthcare professionals on how to have difficult conversations with patients and their at end of life.
• Driven census from 10 to 30 in six months.

• Tightened financial stewardship into profit for Austin, bringing them into profit and creating substantial savings by making operational changes to clinical supplies, vendors and pharmacy.
• Oversaw regulatory process
• Maintained clinical skills by carrying case load and taking on call with my team
• Built an engaged, patient-focused team through committed, high-touch, transparent leadership
• Census growth achieved through partnering with marketing team to ensure a clinical presence for key accounts.
• Implemented innovative team procedures to improve patient satisfaction and education
• In 9 month period, only 1 patient complaint - record patient satisfaction results
• Improved infection rates from 32% to less than 1% through continued education and supervisory visits.

• Designed and Implemented in-patient Palliative Care Program from ground up to care for chronically and terminally ill patients.
• Consultation service to assist physicians with ensuring aggressive symptom management, reviewing polypharmacy, and providing 'goals of care' talks with patients. Engaging hospice referrals, when appropriate.
• Ensuring the appropriate level of care - moving patients out of ICU into appropriate beds, keeping patients in the ED from getting admitted, when appropriate.
• Developed software and financial tracking program to monitor and quantify results in conjunction with IT.
• Created a culture of collaboration between departments for this new service.
• Created a culture of collaboration between departments for this new service.
• Rounded on patients to ensure maximum symptom management
• Provided ELNEC based education to ICU nurses physicians to ensure maximum care to patients to include pain and symptom management in non-verbal patients and cultural and spiritual considerations at end of life.

This hospice was a not-for-profit, community supported hospice that we took from 12 patients to over 300 as we managed the merger to the Harvard group of hospitals in Boston.

• Created a private pay Hospice residence with 24/7 nursing care, housekeeping services, pet therapy, massage, Reiki, and music thanatology.
• Developed vigil service run by hospice volunteers to ensure no one dies alone.
• Developed a Heart Play program to support children and teens with bereavement pain to include a summer camp and weekly, age-appropriate workshops and groups.
• Developed community palliative care program to assist patients receiving curative treatments to have aggressive symptom management to ensure every day is the best it can be.
• Established strategic relationships with Boston-based hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and assisted living facilities to promote community awareness and grow census
• Provided ELNEC training to interdisciplinary team on symptom management, pain management, ethics and end of life care
• Raised patient satisfaction scores to 95%
• Direct care of terminally ill and patients with advanced illnesses requiring aggressive palliation
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.

• Spaulding Hospital is a 132-bed long term acute care teaching hospital
• Director of two units: Traumatic Brain Injury Unit and Oncology Unit
• Contributed to the development and research for the Nationwide Prestigious Disorders of Consciousness Program.
• Co-authored an early decannulation project in conjunction with Director of Respiratory Care to achieve better respiratory outcomes in TBI patients.
• Developed an early intervention sepsis protocol for Spaulding Hospital to ensure rapid identification and appropriate interventions for patients with early signs of sepsis
• Developed an aggressive skin care assessment protocol that resulted in 47% reduction in HAPU and DPH reporting.
• Increased patient satisfaction scores to 92% on TBI unit and 94% on oncology unit.
• Educated staff and empowered them to perform service recovery Promoting staff education and development.
• Founding Member of the Code Blue Team
• Provided Direct care of brain injured patients in step down unit
• Chaired the Nurse Education Council, that was formed to identity issues throughout the hospital and create and implement solutions in an inter-disciplinary, collaborative approach.

• Hospice of the North Shore and Greater Boston is the largest not-for-profit hospice in Massachusetts
• Managed 30 direct reports and detected and tparticipated in direct patient care.
• Improved patient satisfaction scores from 77% to 89%
• Chaired QAPI committee and new nurse education committee
• Helped to develop the outpatient/community palliative care program that served over 300 patients in its first year.
• Managed census of over 280 patients

• Haven Hospice is Florida's most compassionate provider of hospice services and end of life care for Florida residents
• Managed office of RN's, Nurse's Aides, Front Office Staff and Administrative Staff and Marketing Staff
• Worked in an interdisciplinary care setting to teach and mentor patient care personnel
• Coordinated all interdisciplinary functions and ensured that patient and families needs were met
• Participated in the on-call rotation as necessary
• Provided direct care for patients and participated in on-call rotation
• Led QAPI team to ensure best patient outcomes

• Responsible for all new business and negotiating trade contracts.
• Secured 70,000 competitive hotel, motel and resort contracts for HotStays.com (HotStays.com is wholly owned by International Web Media, LLC).
• Negotiated exclusive contract with Dodge Viper for sponsorship.
• Developed ongoing superior consultative relationships with client base.
• Hired, trained and managed a staff of 20.
• Extensive copywriting and editing.

• Responsible for staffing, training and mentoring new staff and student nurses.
• Direct Patient Care on 22-bed unit on cardiac step down patients
• Established and continuously optimized unit schedules and individual work assignments.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols to optimize performance and safety.
• Took samples such as blood and urine to complete diagnostic and routine assessment tests.
• Implemented effective strategies and care plans to improve patient outcomes and meet recovery objectives.
• Administered medications and treatments to patients as ordered by physician, maintaining accountability for accurate narcotic count at end of each shift.
• Maintained in-depth understanding of individual patient care plans.
• Member of Hospital wide code blue team

• Internal rotation in critical care departments ICU, ED, Trauma and First Responder
• Managed most critically ill patients in the London area
• Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
• Facilitated therapeutic communication, conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviors and helping patients regain or improve coping abilities to prevent further disability.
• Delivered outstanding care to patients with various diagnoses and managed care from treatment initiation through to completion.
• Partnered with physicians, social workers, activity therapists, nutritionists and case managers to develop and implement individualized care plans and documented all patient interactions and interventions in electronic charting systems.
• Changed out tracheostomies, gastrostomy buttons and catheters regularly to prevent infection or other problems.
• Participated in education activities, including evidence-based practice project implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
• Performed triage on all incoming patients and determined severity of injuries and illnesses.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.