Erica Rodriguez
New York,NY
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Clinical Nurse Manager
Fresenius Medical Center
10.2024 - Current
- Manages the operations of the clinic, including budget, processes, staffing, and quality standards.
- Provides leadership, coaching, and development plans for all direct reports.
- Partners with internal Human Resources, Quality, and Technical Services departments.
- Maintains integrity of medical and operations records and complies with all data collections and auditing activities.
- Coordinates all aspects of patient care with the appropriate staff members, from admission through discharge of the patient.
- Accountable for completion of the Annual Standing Order Review and Internal Classification of Disease (ICD) coding.
- Manages clinic financials including efficient utilization of supplies or equipment and regular profits and loss review.
- Responsible for all required network reporting and on-site state or federal surveys.
Clinical Coordinator
USRC
03.2023 - 08.2024
- Acted as a Facility Administrator, taking on key responsibilities such as setting up staff schedules and assigning daily patient care duties.
- Successfully managed administrative tasks to ensure smooth facility operations during coverage periods.
- Ensured efficient coordination and seamless continuity of care when covering administrative roles and duties.
- Stepped into Facility Administrator duties to actively mediated grievances on the clinic floor, addressing concerns promptly and following up with verbal warnings as necessary to maintain a quality work environment.
- Provided interviews to maintain sufficient staffing levels, ensuring the clinic was adequately supported at all times.
- Assist with facility growth using clinical and operational processes to improve patient health and minimize absences and hospitalizations.
- Outcome focused work to maintain thorough documentation of all treatments, activities, and communication with the patient, physician, and other healthcare professionals.
- Promote quality management program through education and involvement of staff and patients in outcomes as well as overall responsibility to achieve corporate goals for quality.
- Target goals for patient outcomes in accordance with quality patient care and company goals.
- Demonstrate effective use of supplies and staff labor hours.
- Review incident reports; make recommendations and take corrective action to report at monthly QAPI meeting.
- Ensure operational readiness and compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
- Assisted with the development, implementation and follow up of Corrective Action Plans required for internal and external surveys.
- Participate in meetings with the governing body, Regional Director, Medical Director and the staff held monthly.
- Maintaining a safe and sanitary environment, equipment functions properly, appropriate inventory levels of all supplies are available and used correctly.
- Responds to all emergencies in clinic. Familiar with equipment and emergency operational procedures.
- Recruitment, training, development, and supervision of all personnel and staff development.
- Evaluating personnel performance and providing counseling.
- Communicated expectations; accept accountability and hold others accountable for performance.
- Facilitate training and development programs to enhance clinical skills and knowledge.
- Collaborative with healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care and promote interdisciplinary communication.
- Provided leadership and guidance to clinical staff, including training, mentoring, and performance evaluations.
Dialysis Nurse Manager
Regency Extended Care
12.2022 - 03.2023
- Audits logs to ensure compliance and reviews medical records for completeness.
- Manage staff, patient schedule and maintaining files.
- Reviewing admission packets as well as updating in EMR.
- Anemia management biweekly.
- Immunization and vaccine tracking.
- Verifying crash cart, scale, eye washing stations and condition of clinic floor routinely.
- Staff meetings including QAPI and in-services as needed.
- Ensured timely documentation with Monthly care plan, monthly notes, medication reconciliation.
- Checking water, disinfection logs, and water culture results from biomed.
Charge Nurse
Park Avenue Dialysis
04.2017 - 02.2023
- Opening and closing of the unit.
- Set-up and observation of water system and dialysis machines including water safety checks such as pH, COND, total chlorine.
- Collects and process specimens following up with physicians accordingly.
- Dialysis assessments and documentation before, during, and after treatment.
- Medication administration and order changes as needed to provide optimum care to patients with MD approval.
- Assisting, planning, and implementing patient care plan.
- Patient admissions and assessments.
- Management critically ill patients with multiple comorbidities in high volume setting.
Charge Nurse
Regency Extended Care
09.2021 - 12.2022
- Monitoring, documenting vital signs pre, during and post dialysis.
- Maintaining and implementing infection control protocols.
- Administered hemodialysis treatments following MD orders as well as carrying out other orders related to treatment and care of HD patients.
- Updating patient care plans, monthly, progress, and access notes.
- Supervising patient care technicians to ensure equipment and machine is being prepared per facility policy.
- Educating patients on treatment options, disease management, and encouraging suitable nutrition practices.
Staff Nurse
DaVita Boston Road
04.2015 - 04.2017
- Evaluation of patients in kidney failure or acute kidney failure.
- Creating and implementing care plans, proper documentation of nursing care.
- Timely documentation with vascular access status, labs, observations, vital signs seeking guidance when out of range.
- Obtaining blood samples, cultures and preparing for shipment.
- Initiates and terminates treatments while monitoring patient status.
- Compliance with facility policy and procedure in patient care, injury prevention and safety training programs.
- Experience as Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician from 2009-2015.
- Equipment disinfection and maintenance, informing biomedical of abnormal values.
- Provided patients with quality service in high volume facilities while maintaining isolation protocols.
- Expert phlebotomist cannulating new access sites and troubleshooting access complications.
- Fluid management coordinator.
- Annual awards for exceeding standards in KT/V and goals met for patients.
Education
Associate of Science - Registered Nursing
BMCC
Chambers Street New York06-2015
Skills
- Patient education
- Evidence-based practice
- Expert cannulation
- 6 years business operations experience in a healthcare facility
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Manager
Fresenius Medical Center
10.2024 - Current
Clinical Coordinator
USRC
03.2023 - 08.2024
Dialysis Nurse Manager
Regency Extended Care
12.2022 - 03.2023
Charge Nurse
Regency Extended Care
09.2021 - 12.2022
Charge Nurse
Park Avenue Dialysis
04.2017 - 02.2023
Staff Nurse
DaVita Boston Road
04.2015 - 04.2017
Associate of Science - Registered Nursing
BMCC