JAIME BUDY

Staff Nurse in the hospital PACU department

• Utilized critical thinking skills to make quick decisions in high-pressure situations, prioritizing patient needs and addressing emergent issues promptly.
• Participated in unit-based quality improvement initiatives focused on enhancing patient outcomes through process improvements.
• Enhanced patient care by implementing evidence-based practices and individualized care plans.
• Advocated for the needs of patients within the healthcare system while maintaining confidentiality and respecting patients'' rights.

• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
• Conducted daily shift briefs to inform staff of changes in patient care assignments.
• Mentored and supervised junior nurses, fostering a supportive and professional work environment.
• Promoted a safe working environment by adhering to infection control policies and regularly reviewing safety protocols.
• Charge RN for hospital Endoscopy Department
• Responsible for budget and materials management resources
• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
• Served as a liaison between nursing staff, physicians, and management, fostering open communication channels among all parties involved in patient care.

• Current position as a Clinical Nursing Supervisor
• This critical position in a regional medical center requires a keen insight into all levels of operation throughout the facility, including but not limited to operational readiness, staffing, patient through-put, facility on-site administrator during off shifts and weekends
• I am a credentialed EPIC instructor, mentor, resource, and strong advocate for not only patients and families but also nurses
• I have worked with multiple disciplines with concentrations on policy and procedure implementation, improvement, and process changes
• I am a repository for resources throughout the organization.

• Unit based flexi RN
• I began my employ in the nursery as a staff nurse, caring for normal newborns as well as high risk infants
• I transitioned to inpatient pediatrics, women's health and medical-surgical inpatients including night Charge Nurse
• The last several years included a unit-based flexi position as well as flexi Nursing Supervisor role.

• Director of Nursing for a growing pediatric home health agency
• I began working for Continuum as a flexi-RN caring for a ventilator dependent client
• After 3 months of employ I was offered the director position
• At the time of assuming the director role the local office had 3 clients and 15 nurses
• When I left this company I had built the local office to an average daily census of 100 clients and over 200 nurses as well as an office staff of 8 employees
• Our annual billing was over $6 million
• Additionally, I was promoted to a regional director position where I traveled to offices on the eastern seaboard
• My last assignment/position was establishing an office in the Denver, CO area serving the pediatric population in the greater Denver area as well as surrounding counties.

• Staff educator for the area's largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (56 beds) and only local Level 4 NICU
• I functioned not only as a clinical educator but also worked intermittently as a relief charge nurse
• I initiated and developed a nurse-centric, unit based PICC team where I trained and qualified over 10 RN's to insert PICC's in at-risk infants
• I developed an infection monitoring program for all infants and nurses as well as participated and was directly responsible for data recording in a hypothermic brain injury study.

• Staff Nurse in a 22 bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• During my employ I worked as a staff nurse and was promoted to a Clinical Coordinator for night shift
• I initiated and developed a PICC program, training several other staff RN's to insert and maintain central lines
• Clinical Coordinator for NICU
• This position is similar to an assistant unit manager
• Maintaining staff education, evaluation(s), and overall operational readiness of the unit on a daily basis
• Nursing Supervisor
• The last three years of my employment I worked as a Clinical Nursing Supervisor for the entire facility
• This position was directly responsible to the DON, operational readiness, facility staffing, patient throughput, decedent affairs, and patient advocacy.