Elin Jacquette
Summary
Seasoned nursing professional offering clinical expertise, leadership experience, and advanced education that focuses on compliance and quality measures to optimize patient care.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Resource Nurse
White Oak Medical Center
01.2024 - Current
- Serve as clinical resource at point of care to offer clinical expertise and guidance on nursing best practices, hospital policies and procedures
- Identify nursing staff knowledge gaps and collaborate with leadership to deliver product training, documentation updates, and compliance topics
- Perform 5 documentation audits per shift to ensure completeness and accuracy and timely implementation of corrective actions to mitigate potential compliance issues
Neuro ICU Staff Nurse
University of Maryland Medical Center
10.2023 - Current
- Perform ongoing physical, hemodynamic, and psychological assessments to identify and manage life-threatening, complex neurological illness or conditions for 2 patients per shift f
- Collaborate with physicians, pharmacists and therapists to develop individualized care for optimal patient recovery
- Educate and support families while complying with HIPAA laws to prevent information breaches
ICU Assistant Nurse Manager
White Oak Medical Center
01.2021 - 12.2023
- Managed 50 nurses and unit operations in 32-bed cardiovascular/ neuro-critical/ medical/ surgical ICU
- Audited patient charts routinely to verify order appropriateness and initiation, documentation accuracy and completeness, identify opportunities to promote adherence to ICU quality initiatives
- Monitored operations for compliance and quality violations
- Participated in root cause analysis and gap analysis
- Prepared reports for senior management, outlining findings from investigations into suspected non-compliant activities
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams for successful implementation of new compliance/ quality initiatives and staff education
- Reviewed ICU admission, transfer, and discharge utilization data in daily multidisciplinary meetings to inform unit capabilities, validate patient disposition needs, assess ongoing staffing requirements, identify challenges to potential care transitions
- Investigated and independently resolved complaints from staff, physicians, and patients
- Supervised 6 ICU Shared Governance Committees with 90 members that identified practice concerns, created process-improvement solutions, and championed staff engagement
- Performed routine analysis of Tableau Patient Experience data and created actionable items related to improving metrics
ICU Staff Nurse
Washington Adventist Hospital
10.2013 - 01.2019
- Acted as Charge Nurse that coordinated staff assignments assisted providers, monitored patient orders, audited patient charts, reviewed ICU utilization data to inform unit capabilities, patient disposition and staffing requirements
- Acted as Crisis Nurse that rapidly identified potentially deteriorating patients and alerted appropriate personnel for intervention
- Acted as Nurse Preceptor that mentored 20 new nurses, provided guidance on nursing roles, unit functions, hospital policies and procedures
Staff Nurse
Grady Memorial Hospital, Piedmont Hospital
07.2007 - 08.2013
- Assessed physical, hemodynamic, and psychological status of 4 medical and surgical patients per shift
Education
Master of Science - Nursing
Bowie State University
Bowie, MD05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA05.2007
Skills
- Medicare/Medicaid knowledgeable
- ICD10 knowledgeable
- 250 hours of diagnosis coding in graduate school
- Compliance oversight
- Chart Review
- Multidisciplinary collaborator
- Utilization review
- Data analysis
Certification
- BLS, 03/2025
- ACLS, 03/2024
- Georgia, RN191750, 07/2007 to present
- Maryland, R207774, 08/2013 to present
- District of Columbia, RN1059128, 03/2021 to present
Affiliations
- Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society
- American Association of Critical Care Nurses
Timeline
Resource Nurse
White Oak Medical Center
01.2024 - Current
Neuro ICU Staff Nurse
University of Maryland Medical Center
10.2023 - Current
ICU Assistant Nurse Manager
White Oak Medical Center
01.2021 - 12.2023
ICU Staff Nurse
Washington Adventist Hospital
10.2013 - 01.2019
Staff Nurse
Grady Memorial Hospital, Piedmont Hospital
07.2007 - 08.2013
Master of Science - Nursing
Bowie State University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Georgia State University