Elizabeth Wojciechowski RN
Addison,VT
Summary
*Experience Nursing Leader with a 10-year proven track record of managing teams and achieving exceptional results. Demonstrate the ability to develop high staff morale and build a productive team. Morale is high and turnover has reduced on the Medical/Surgical floor under my supervision.
*Effective communicator with a demonstrated ability, over several years to work with multidisciplinary teams to provide efficiency of patient and organizational operations. Worked with multiple state law enforcement agencies including NGOs across the country to coordinate care and services for tens of thousands of correctional patients during incarceration and upon discharge.
*Ability to strategic plan for Quality Improvement projects, department, and organization growth. Recently have been involved in and Request for Proposal to evaluate contract worker organizations. Participated in up to 9 RFP presentations, elicited information from presenters and provided a summary of recommendations for the UVM Health Network to make future contract decisions.
*Critical thinker capable of leveraging technologies to create efficiencies. Have worked on at least two Electronic Health Record development projects. Developed the medical workflow with a team of 3 that was utilized to build a proprietary software program for correctional health care nationwide. This workflow ensured all regulatory and accreditation standards were in compliance. Thus, providing the highest quality of care possible to patients.
*Possess a positive can-do attitude, compassionate, possess both experience and a passion for the operational aspect of patient care services. I will conclude my Masters in Nurse Executive in March 2025. The valuable skills I have attained throughout professional experiences combined with the knowledge I am achieving from my master’s program provides me with the acumen and ability to perform the duties of the Assistant Director of Patient Care Services position.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Nursing Supervisor
University of Vermont Health Network at Porter Medical Center
03.2022 - Current
- Applies strong leadership skills to solve complex problems through evidenced based solutions
- Directly responsible for strategic planning and staff recruitment
- Coaching and mentoring staff, evaluating performance as well as supporting professional development
- Review and monitor scheduling for appropriate needs of the facility, patients, and organization
- Directly responsible for managing 41.5 FTE positions (RNs, LNAs and Unit Clerks) hiring, onboarding and scheduling needs
- Collaborate with department manager to ensure fiscal responsibility through excellent customer service, waste reduction, policy enforcement, strategic planning, process improvement, team building and positive staff development
- Shared responsibility with department manager for developing and adhering to a multi-million-dollar annual budget
- Directly participates and evaluates work activities of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.
- Promoted interdisciplinary collaboration by fostering strong relationships with physicians, therapists, and other healthcare professionals.
- Mentored new nursing staff members to promote adherence to established best practices and foster professional growth.
Regional Vice President
Armor Correctional Health Services Corporate
03.2021 - Current
- Leads strategic planning efforts at each site to enhance performance and improve systems over the contract cycle
- Maintain clear communication as well as respond to inquiries and concerns between health services staff, health services leadership, Armor Executive staff and contract Client
- Directly supervises, and evaluates work activities of a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals
- Directly responsible for strategic staff planning development
- Review and monitor scheduling for appropriate needs of the facility and contractual obligations
- Directly responsible for 27.76 FTE Approximately 40 (full/part time and PRN) Armor employees
- This includes Medical Mental Health and Dental services
- Directly responsible for facility with an average daily population of 350-400 correctional patients
- Direct interaction with appropriate Corporate, Client, and facility personnel to ensure positive client and staff interactions to ensure fluid communications exist at all times
- Work to resolve any Client, Personnel, or patient concerns, excellent attention to detail and communication skills
- Consistently assist with gestures for moral boosters and retention
- Such as provide staff meals, put together staff goodie bags and award certificates of appreciation
- Conduct and administer fiscal operations, including managing a defined annual budget, authorizing expenditures, and analyzing projected actual financial performance of assigned contract
- Directly responsible for a budget in excess of $2.5 million dollars annually
- Directly responsible for all medical standards to be met as well as monitor and educate patient care
- Directly responsible for communicating and implement all companywide communications and initiatives as well as advocate for my team and site
- Assist staff with direct patient care, patient assessments, staff education, and communication of patient needs or concerns.
Senior Clinical Leader/ Operations Specialist
Armor Correctional Health Services Corporate
12.2020 - Current
- Senior Clinical Operations Specialist works with Armor’s Executive team on companywide initiatives including but limited to all duties listed under Clinical Operations Specialist description with an addition of the following responsibilities
- Step in as site leadership and responsible for staff and facility as needed
- Assist with strategic staff planning development and scheduling as needed
- Policy & Forms development
- Process expert developed nursing workflows for all nursing processes with built in triggers
- These workflows are used for all companywide nursing staff education and were the basis for the development of Armor’s Electronic Health Record
- New Business liaison, assist in pre-bid process for new business as well as coordinate with RVP all services, staffing, supplies, and support services need to start up a new contract facility
- Mentor site leadership staff
- Developed a remote training program for both Health Services Administrator and Directors of Nursing to accommodate the in person COVID-19 travel restrictions
- Consistently monitor processes and assess nursing care
- Assist with all aspects of recruitment and retention, development of new initiatives to attract and retain staff
- Assist staff with direct patient care, patient assessments, staff and or patient education, as well as communication of patient needs or concerns.
Clinical Leader/ Operations Specialist
Armor Correctional Health Services Corporate
08.2019 - Current
- Support facilities and staff with Clinical nursing guidance for Armor contracts
- Serves a liaison from site to corporate to provide clinical, technical, administrative support and direction to contracted facilities
- Step in as site leadership and responsible for staff and facility as needed
- Business development: assist corporate office with any support needed, obtain and retain correctional medical healthcare contracts
- Bid tour attendance
- Reporting on correctional medical facility, staffing and any operational information available
- Create, develop, and implement tools for nurses to assist with patient care and tracking purposes
- Example: Post Duty sheets / medication tracking forms to track stock & narcotic use
- Mentor Health Service Administrators, assist with new H.S.A
- Interviewing and training
- Mentor Directors of Nursing & Nurse Supervisors, assist with new D.O.N
- Leadership interviewing
- Mentor and teach nurses on correct process, policy, and best practice of care
- Perform facility Contract Compliance Audits annually and on an as needed basis
- Teach New Employee Orientation Training at contract start-ups
- New contract start-up team member
- Engage with staff to assist with all aspects of the contract changeover processes
- Assist with Contract Start-ups via audits, education, E.H.R
- Development and training, pharmacy services, lab services and operational needs
- Assist with implementing site specific as well as Armor companywide tracking tools for Quality Improvement program
- Work with clients to provide effect clear communication
- Assist with developing new or updated Policy and Procedures as needed
- Expensive experience with developing and implementing MAT Medically Assisted Treatment programs in contracts
- Processes study, evaluate, report, and educate on nursing processes for all contracted correctional facilities
- Responsible for reporting all information gathered to supervisors
- Assist facilities with maintaining contracted staffing and remaining within budgeting parameters
- Manage sites as needed when there are leadership vacancies
- Assist site working with community programs and providers to deliver optimum patient care
- Educate leadership and staff at each site visit to adhere to corporate policies, contract compliance and model Armors Guiding Principles
- Assist staff with direct patient care, patient assessment, education, and communication of patient needs or concerns.
Clinical Operations Specialist
Centurion LLC Corporate
03.2016 - 08.2019
- Support with Clinical guidance for correctional facilities
- Processes study, evaluate, report, and educate on nursing processes for all contracted medical facilities
- Responsible for reporting all information gathered to supervisors
- Provides technical, administrative support and direction to contracted facilities
- Mentor Health Service Administrators
- Mentor Directors of Nursing & Nurse Supervisors
- Assist with implementing tracking tools for Quality Improvement program
- Preform annual facility Contract Compliance Audits
- Develop and present Power Point training for corporate and contract specific educational programs
- Teach New Employee Orientation Training at contract start-ups
- Present and teach annual H.S.A
- D.O.N
- Trainings in each contracted state
- Develop Nursing Assessment Protocols for Corporate & contract specific
- Assist with new contracts via bid tours, reporting on correctional medical facility, staffing and any operational information available
- Assist with Contract Start-ups via audits, education, E.H.R
- Development and training, pharmacy services, lab services and operational needs
- Assist corporate office with any support needed to bid, obtain, and retain correctional medical healthcare contracts
- Assisted with E.H.R development for nursing workflow
- Assist staff with patient care, patient assessment, education, and communication.
Heath Services Administrator
Correct Care Solutions
11.2014 - 03.2016
- Directs, supervises, and evaluates a multidisciplinary staff of 25 to include Medical, MH, Nursing, Clerical and Dental
- Ensures completion of staff reviews based on staff roles and responsibilities
- Responsible for operations of a combined 160 bed Female Jail/Prison
- Male & Female intakes, intra state transfers, detox, and pregnant females
- The Health Center maintains a 6-bed infirmary for observation or acute illness or injury
- Provides technical and administrative oversite to staff, addressing or resolving problems or conflicts
- Conducts interviews and selects candidates for potential new employees
- Decides on candidates to hire and negotiates wages with Cooperate
- Serves as a liaison during the hiring process between the new staff members and cooperate office to be sure the staff member completes the process and is supported
- Responsible for recruiting and retention of staff
- Responsible for ensuring the facility maintains NCCHC accreditation, facility audit completed every 3 years
- Monthly audits completed to stay on track
- Communicate and collaborate with the 6 other correctional facilities statewide daily to coordinate care for patients as they transfer between facilities
- Collaborate with multiple outside agencies to ensure the care of patients is administered to the community standard
- These agencies include, UVM Medical Center along with ambulatory provider networks, Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, State Agencies, Local and state police to include a few
- Conducts and administers fiscal operations
- Including managing with a defined budget, authorizing expenditures, and analyzing projected to actual performance of designated project
- Works closely with DOC to coordinate and delegate responsibility for offender services and advocate for the patient’s health and safety
- Serve as a member of site Continuous Quality Improvement
- Ensure that recommendations from CQI and performance audits are implemented, and any results of a corrective action are monitored
- Responsible for teaching quarterly educational training of medical and MH topics to DOC staff
- Work closely with medical staff to ensure care is administered to our patients in an efficient and timely manner
- To include assisting in the health center daily, patient assessments, treatments, medication administration and covering open nursing shifts in the schedule weekly
- Assist with direct patient care as needed.
Director of Nursing
Correct Care Solutions
09.2014 - 11.2014
- Responsible for all aspects of administration of medical care to patients
- Reasonable for the care of patients of a 6-bed infirmary, to include researching, developing and implementing care plans for a host of medical conditions
- Responsible for training nursing staff and coordinating in-services that keep the nursing staff up to date on best practice directives
- Supervise and evaluate nursing staff
- Counsel and praise staff when appropriate
- Involved in the hiring process of all new nursing staff
- Assist with direct patient care as needed.
Registered Nurse
Fletcher Allen Health Care
06.2014 - 09.2014
- Baird 3 Orthopedics/Urology Nurse II, Step III
- Provides professional nursing care to patients in varying states of health and illness by assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of the nursing plan of care
- The Staff Nurse II functions as an essential member of nursing and multidisciplinary teams, providing direct patient care (pre-OP & post OP), instruction, and preparation for continuing care after discharge.
Registered Nurse
Correct Care Solutions
12.2011 - 09.2014
- Staff Nurse -Per Diem employee & responsible for monthly Statistical Reporting numbers
- Day Charge Nurse until June 2014 - areas of expertise include
- All tasks listed as a Licensed Practical Nurse below as well as Charge Nurse Duties
- Receive shift report and delegate shift responsibilities to nursing staff
- Cover needs where shift is short either due to staffing call outs or high need patient cases
- Ensure medication pass is started on time and each nursing staff completes all tasks assigned
- Ensuring that the provider stays on schedule and sees all patients on the provider list
- Receive new patients into the facility, collect vital signs, and obtain a brief medical and mental health history on each patient
- Determine if patient has any emergent needs or is harmful to him/her or others
- Notify the Department of Corrections (DOC) of any concerning issues
- Obtain patient releases and call patient's pharmacies for correct list of current medications
- Contact the Medical and Mental Health providers to obtain orders needed for patients to have continuity of care
- Within 2 hours of entry into facility patient completes a full medical and mental health history intake if cooperating
- Document attempts and refusals of medical intake
- Triage and respond to all sick slips each day (average of 20)
- Research chart for answer
- See each patient, respond to sick slip, and determine if the patient needs to be referred to the provider, dental or mental health
- Consult on call or in-house provider for emergent issues, schedule appointments for non-emergent issues and address any other questions, illnesses, or injuries with standing orders if possible
- Communicate with DOC, contracted and outside community agencies to coordinate care for patients while incarcerated and upon release
- Upon release all patients come to the health center to be discharged
- All current medications are called into a pharmacy by the Charge Nurse upon release for continuation of care
- Respond to any and all issues that arise in the health center
- Triage all walk-ins into the health center
- Respond to emergencies in the building, assess and document incidents
- Contact appropriate supervising staff, Regional DON, Provider or Mental Health Clinician if needed
- If an emergency obtain order to send to ER
- Call rescue and relay information about patient issues
- Call ER to give report on incoming patient
- Follow up call for status of patient
- If a patient is admitted call each day for a report and document information
- Communicate with hospital case manager on plans for release
- Admit and discharge patients into and out of the infirmary
- Indicial assessment as well as discharge
- Teaching instructions to patients upon release from the infirmary
- Contact staff to cover any open shifts due to call outs or shortage
- Come in early or stay late and cover open shifts
- Work a full 16hr shift if needed.
Licensed Practical Nurse
Wake Robin Corporation
07.2010 - 05.2011
- Staff Nurse - areas of expertise include
- Direct Patient Care- Medication Administration, Dressing Changes, Catheter, Wound and Diabetic Care
- Provided all aspects of direct nursing care
- Assisted in total care with ADLs when short staffed and assisted LNA staff whenever help was needed
- Precise Charting, Documentation and Implement Care Plans as developed by RNs
- Preceptor Team Approach- collaborating with staff on patient’s needs
- Communicated any patient or staff need/concern to Charge Nurse for either attention or resolution
- Dependable, Flexible, Goal Oriented, Positive Attitude, Patient and Compassionate with excellent time management and prioritizing skills
- Covered open shifts weekly beyond regularly scheduled shifts
- Doctor assistance for procedures as needed
- Communicate with the on-call Provider for emergent care or after hours needs for patients
- Called rescue and communicated with rescue team, DON and hospital on the needs and status of patient’s condition
- Worked on all 3 units of the facility without issue and moved from floor to floor during a shift to wherever the need was greater
- The units included Skilled, Dementia and Assisted Living.
Licensed Nursing Assistant
Wake Robin Corporation
08.2007 - 07.2010
- Nursing Aide – areas of expertise include
- Provide direct patient observation, total personal care with ADLs and provide any assistance needed
- Take Vital Signs and record them as directed
- Team Approach- collaborating with staff on patient’s needs
- Communicate any patient or staff need/concern to Charge Nurse for either attention or resolution
- Dependable, Flexible, Goal Oriented, Positive Attitude, Patient and Compassionate with excellent time management skills
- Preceptor and mentor for new employees
- Medication Administration Technician on assisted Living Unit.
- Fostered strong relationships with patients'' families through clear communication and empathetic support during difficult times.
Licensed Child Care Provider
Self-employed
01.2004 - 04.2008
- Owner/Self-employed – areas of expertise include
- Responsible for all aspects of running a successful licensed childcare business
- Direct care for children 6wks- 10yrs
- Multitask Oriented, Organized, Prioritization and Direct Communication with Parents and State Agencies.
- Managed administrative tasks such as billing and record-keeping, maintaining an organized system for efficient operations.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing Executive
Southern New Hampshire University
Hooksett, NH03.2025
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Southern New Hampshire University
Hooksett, NH07.2018
Associate of Science - Nursing
North Country Community College
Saranac Lake, NY05.2010
Skills
- Nursing Leadership
- Critical Thinking
- Strategic Planning
- Clinical judgment
- Emotional Intelligence
- Compassionate Care
- Ethical Practice
- Professional Accountability
- Effective Communicator
- Patient Care Coordination
Professional References
- LaShelle Melton APRN PMHNP-BC, Former Clinical Operations Specialist Centurion Healthcare 901-212-4314
- Nathan Manning RN, Former Regional Vice President @ Armor Correctional Health, 931-802-3852
- Kerri McKenzie, Former Regional Vice President @ Armor Correctional Health, 414-617-4092
- Paul Elmore, Clinical Director of Patient Care, UVM Health Network 802-388-4712
- Linda Havey, CNO, UVM Health Network
Education Credentials
- Bachelor of Nursing RN, Southern New Hampshire University, 2018, Summa Cum Laude
- Associates of Nursing RN, North Country Community College, 2010-2011, Phi Theta Kappa- Honor Society Graduate
- Licensed Practical Nursing Certificate, North Country Community College, 2009-2010
- Licensed Nursing Assistant license, 2007
- Current BLS CPR for Medical Professionals
- Current ACLS for Medical Professionals
- Lean Sigma Six White Belt Certification, 2023
- Masters In Nurse Executive, Southern New Hampshire University, 3/2025, current GPA 4.0
Personal Information
Title: Nursing Supervisor
Timeline
Nursing Supervisor
University of Vermont Health Network at Porter Medical Center
03.2022 - Current
Regional Vice President
Armor Correctional Health Services Corporate
03.2021 - Current
Senior Clinical Leader/ Operations Specialist
Armor Correctional Health Services Corporate
12.2020 - Current
Clinical Leader/ Operations Specialist
Armor Correctional Health Services Corporate
08.2019 - Current
Clinical Operations Specialist
Centurion LLC Corporate
03.2016 - 08.2019
Heath Services Administrator
Correct Care Solutions
11.2014 - 03.2016
Director of Nursing
Correct Care Solutions
09.2014 - 11.2014
Registered Nurse
Fletcher Allen Health Care
06.2014 - 09.2014
Registered Nurse
Correct Care Solutions
12.2011 - 09.2014
Licensed Practical Nurse
Wake Robin Corporation
07.2010 - 05.2011
Licensed Nursing Assistant
Wake Robin Corporation
08.2007 - 07.2010
Licensed Child Care Provider
Self-employed
01.2004 - 04.2008
Master of Science - Nursing Executive
Southern New Hampshire University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Southern New Hampshire University
Associate of Science - Nursing
North Country Community College
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