Jacqueline Chaves
Apopka,FL
Summary
Healthcare professional with rich background in clinical education, effectively designing and implementing educational programs for healthcare teams. Known for fostering collaborative environment that enhances learning and professional development. Equipped with strong communication and instructional skills, adaptable to dynamic healthcare settings.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Neonatal/Pediatrics Clinical Educator for Respiratory Care
AdventHealth for Children
06.2016 - Current
- Provides a standard of excellence for Respiratory Care staff members and represents the department in a professional manner
- Assists in maintaining high level of quality in performance of department activities
- Enforces department and hospital policies
- Promotes quality patient care and helps to ensure the delivery of safe Respiratory Care
- Works fairly and consistently with employees; maintains good working relationships and open lines of communication with administrative staff, supervisors, and department/hospital staff, to meet department goals
- Plans, develops, schedules, and performs continuing education and completes staff competencies to meet the needs of department personnel
- Educates orientees to job related duties utilizing a variety of instructional methods to accommodate individual learner’s needs
- Ensures that orientees are competent before they provide patient care
- Determines an appropriate workload for orientees in clinical areas that provide ample learning opportunities and reinforcement of skills
- Schedules and effectively communicates orientee’s assignments in advance of clinical activity
- Monitors orientee’s activities while encouraging and facilitating critical thinking
- Keeps preceptors apprised of progress and daily clinical objectives
- Provides constructive feedback to orientees and preceptors to facilitate learning
- Provides orientees and their supervisors with timely and objective evaluations based on observation and documentation
- Reviews and revises training materials on an on-going basis
- Stays current with standards, policies and Standard Operating Procedures, technology, and research to help maintain effectiveness as an educator and as a staff resource person
- Gatekeeper to SOPs and assists with policy updates
- Keeps abreast of state-of-the-art Respiratory Care equipment; evaluates new equipment; introduces new technologies as appropriate
- Uses knowledge and skills to care for and educate others for the neonate/infant, pediatric, and adolescent patient in a hospital setting
- May perform waived and/or non-waived Point of Care Testing Education
- Performs other duties as requested by department leadership
- EPIC EMR Subject Learning Expert
- Assisted Children’s Leadership team with Interviewing potential staff members
Walt Disney Pavilion
AdventHealth for Children
07.2009 - Current
- Critical thinking and patient assessment skills, with the ability to evaluate and modify treatment plans utilizing patient care protocols
- Optimize the use of equipment based on order or protocol
- Ensure infection control
- Maintain a patent airway, including care of artificial airways
- Maintenance and management of hospital and home ventilators
- Performs blood gas and co-oximetry analysis
- Intubation of the pediatric and neonate patient
- Surfactant administration to the neonate
- Newborn stabilization and ventilator care
- Emergency department experience
Lead in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
AdventHealth for Children
04.2014 - 06.2016
- Assign therapist workload
- Guide, train and provide mentoring to clinical staff
- Round with Physicians and ARNPs
- Provide operational and clinical leadership to staff as designated by departmental management
Adjunct Clinical Instructor in RT Program
Concorde Career Institute
08.2014 - 01.2015
- Educate students in the classroom and clinical setting according to class syllabus
- Assist in student evaluations
- Mentor students
- Prepare power points and study guides to assist students in understanding lessons
Nightshift Respiratory Supervisor
AdventHealth for Children
08.2013 - 01.2014
- Accomplished respiratory therapy human resource objectives by selecting, orienting and training new employees
- Planned and coordinated the nightly and daily work activities of respiratory therapy leads and staff in accordance with departmental policies
- Planned, monitored and appraised employees job contributions
- Help handle and coordinate employee schedules, coaching and counseling
Lead in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
AdventHealth for Children
08.2012 - 08.2013
- Provide operational and clinical leadership to staff as designated by departmental management
- Assign therapist workload
- Act as liaison between therapist and management
- Guide, train and provide mentoring to clinical staff
- Round with Physicians and ARNPs
Clinical Instructor Respiratory Program
Seminole State College
01.2011 - 01.2013
- Instruct students in the clinical setting according to class syllabus
- Help coordinate student rotations and site visits
- Site visits to ensure clinical lessons tie in with classroom lessons
- Conduct formal student evaluations
- Active in student oral practicals
AdventHealth
01.2003 - 01.2009
- Company Overview: Orlando, Florida
- Perform electrocardiograms
- Complete/Order using Cerner
- Address problems and carry out solutions
- Orlando, Florida
Education
Master’s in Business Administration - Healthcare Administration
University of Southern Indiana
01.2020
Bachelor’s in Science - Cardiopulmonary Sciences
University of Central Florida
01.2010
Associates in Science - Respiratory Care
Seminole State College
01.2009
Associates in Arts - General Education
Seminole State College
01.2007
Skills
- Communication
- Clinical expertise
- Relationships building
- Strategic planning
- Quality improvement
- Knowledge dissemination
- Skill development
- Clinical coaching
References
Will be furnished upon request
Certification
- NRP
- PALS
- NBRC
Affiliations
- AARC
- FSRC
Languages
Spanish
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Neonatal/Pediatrics Clinical Educator for Respiratory Care
AdventHealth for Children
06.2016 - Current
Adjunct Clinical Instructor in RT Program
Concorde Career Institute
08.2014 - 01.2015
Lead in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
AdventHealth for Children
04.2014 - 06.2016
Nightshift Respiratory Supervisor
AdventHealth for Children
08.2013 - 01.2014
Lead in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
AdventHealth for Children
08.2012 - 08.2013
Clinical Instructor Respiratory Program
Seminole State College
01.2011 - 01.2013
Walt Disney Pavilion
AdventHealth for Children
07.2009 - Current
AdventHealth
01.2003 - 01.2009
Bachelor’s in Science - Cardiopulmonary Sciences
University of Central Florida
Associates in Science - Respiratory Care
Seminole State College
Associates in Arts - General Education
Seminole State College
- NRP
- PALS
- NBRC
Master’s in Business Administration - Healthcare Administration
University of Southern Indiana
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