Jami Sokolgz
Memphis,TN
Summary
Accomplished Registered Nurse with 10 years of experience in acute care, home health, long-term care, and leadership roles. Dedicated to enhancing quality of care, safety, and patient outcomes.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse, Occupational Health
ABB, Inc.
Senatobia, MS
11.2021 - Current
- Implement wellness programs for employees to include stress, nutrition, musculoskeletal, and weight management.
- Worker's compensation case management
- Manage nurse-led clinic; work to prevent, investigate, and treat workplace-related injuries.
- Assist employees with management of chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.
- Provide in-house COVID testing. Assist employees with scheduling of vaccinations and providing education for preventative health.
- Lead first aid team by providing education and engagement therefore creating a culture of safety.
- Identify and advocate for employees’ health concerns/needs and work with senior leadership to identify need for culture changes related to overall healthy well-being.
- Facilitate Safety Skills training (Emergency response, Behavior Based Safety, Universal Waste Management, etc.) sessions.
- Contribute Nurse's Corner and Health sessions of monthly HSE newsletter.
- Collaborate with senior leadership, managers, and supervisors to identify health and safety concerns.
- Provided company health services to employees post-hire, including vaccinations and drug testing.
- Perform pre-employment and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol screenings, asking appropriate questions and following nursing guidelines.
- Assess employees' medical conditions and provided tailored counseling.
- Effectively promoted superior levels of care to all employees and complied with data confidentiality and corporate regulations.
- Respond to emergency situations with speed, expertise and level-headed approaches to provide optimal care, support and life-saving interventions.
- Train new employees in proper safety procedures to minimize accidents with proper behaviors.
- Determine root causes of accidents via in-depth investigations and identified potential prevention strategies to mitigate future risk.
- Collaborate with engineers or physicians to institute control or remedial measures for hazardous or potentially hazardous conditions or equipment.
Home Health Registered Nurse
LHC Group Inc.
Memphis, TN
01.2018 - 08.2021
- Developed care plans, covering goals based on nursing diagnosis and incorporating therapeutic, preventive and rehabilitative nursing actions.
- Ensured that physicians were kept in the loop and notified of all changes in patients' conditions.
- Asked open-ended questions and delivered high level of attention to reliably assess patients' conditions.
- Trained and mentored new RNs on best practices, home health policies and standards of care.
- Communicated with primary care physicians or emergency care providers to relay patient needs.
- Advocated for patient needs with interdisciplinary team and implemented outlined treatment plans.
Clinical Appeals Nurse
Parallon
Nashville, TN
11.2020 - 05.2021
- Triage incoming inventory for the Appeals team, validating appeal criteria is met
- Compose technical denial arguments for reconsideration, including both written and telephonically
- Identify contract protection that can be leveraged to overturn denials
- Overcome objections that prevent payment of the claim and gain commitment for payment through concise and effective appeal argument
- Identify problem accounts/processes/trends and escalate as appropriate
- Utilize effective documentation standards that support a strong historical record of actions taken on the account
RN Supervisor
Kirby Pines Estates
Memphis, TN
05.2019 - 10.2020
- Relate positively to residents and families and work cooperatively with other employees.
- Supervise staff in day to day operations for facility to include rehabilitation unit, long-term care unit, memory care unit, assisted living and independent living.
- Function as floor nurse as needed.
- Supervise other employees and work cooperatively to obtain resident care objectives.
- Meet all local health regulations, and successfully complete a post-offer health assessment.
- Attend departmental meetings, providing feedback to enhance future performance.
- Develop and provide educational training material to clinical staff as needed to provide accurate information and correct any negative trends in practice.
- Participate in facility pre-surveys to monitor compliance with State and Federal guidelines and regulations.
- Actively participate in facility's annual and/or compliant State surveys(s).
- Perform incident reports audits and pertinent data collection. Develop a detailed report on findings to report to QA Committee. Report any high risks areas immediately.
RN EPIC Certified Analyst
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
Memphis, TN
01.2018 - 08.2019
- Full-cycle implementation of EHR at four hospitals (workflow analysis, build, train, and support).
- Development build, maintenance, and continued support for 19 hospitals and thousands of end users.
- Analyze, plan, design, maintain and provide ongoing optimization and support of Epic EHR System.
- Perform workflow assessments, capture business needs an analyze internal business systems to determine functional requirements for optimal utilization.
- Posses in-depth clinical and application knowledge and experience.
- Perform system builds, upgrades, and system enhancements as needed. Support application through all phases of implementation, optimization, and maintenance.
- Work with cross-functional team and end users to achieve application integration to meet clinical and/or business needs.
- Exercise discretion and judgement in the performance of original, creative, intellectual work.
Home Health Registered Nurse
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
Memphis, TN
03.2016 - 09.2017
- Ensure patient-centered, quality-focused and cost-contained care.
- Bridge patients with community resources to promote and maintain health.
- Collaborate with physician and advanced practitioners to ensure standards of patient care are met and appropriate level of care is initiated.
- Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psycho social changes in the patient's condition and update plan of care accordingly.
- Revise plan of care according to evaluation, changes in medical plan of care, and effective/ineffective nursing interventions.
- Perform quality improvement analysis on peers' documentation and participate in process improvement for the RoadNotes Software EHR system.
- Complete supervisor assessment of nurse staff.
- Train and mentor new nurses.
RN Pre and Post Cardiac Intervention/ER Dept.
Baptist Memorial Healthcare
Memphis, TN
02.2015 - 02.2016
- Provide pre and post-operative care for cardiac catheterization, pacemakers, ablations, cardioversions, and bypass surgery.
- Assess, plan, administer, evaluate the nursing care of assigned patients, families, and all member of the care delivery team.
- Promote optimal cardiovascular health among clients through preventative measures that involve health counseling, screening, and stress test, as well are disease prevention and management strategies.
- Provide professional nursing direct patient care in compliance with professional practice and unit standards in the Emergency Department.
HRIS Analyst
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
01.2009 - 05.2011
- Assisted in the development, implementation, and maintenance of software applications within the human resource division.
- Process, track and audit all personnel requisitions in an accurate and timely manner.
- Update Lawson and recruitment system correctly as needed.
- Maintain the annual Lawson FTE budget and audit.
- Develop and generate reports for use by Human Resources department heads, managers and other users as needed.
- Assist with implementation of new systems in HR and various departments as needed and assigned, including project management, selection of system, process improvement, design, testing, documentation and troubleshooting.
Education
Post Masters Certificate - Family Nurse Practitioner
Arkansas State University
Jonesboro, AR08-2026
Master of Science - Nursing
United States University
San Diego, CA10-2023
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Baptist College of Health Sciences
02-2015
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems
Mercer University
08-2006
Skills
- Nursing leadership
- Health and wellness education
- Patient evaluation
- Staff training
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Patient care planning
- Patient education
- Patient satisfaction and process improvement
- Process and policy development
- Clinical Services
Affiliations
American Nurses Association
Skills Highlights
Health and safety standards, process improvement and development. Health and wellness program planning, project management, training and development.
Timeline
Registered Nurse, Occupational Health
ABB, Inc.
11.2021 - Current
Clinical Appeals Nurse
Parallon
11.2020 - 05.2021
RN Supervisor
Kirby Pines Estates
05.2019 - 10.2020
Home Health Registered Nurse
LHC Group Inc.
01.2018 - 08.2021
RN EPIC Certified Analyst
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
01.2018 - 08.2019
Home Health Registered Nurse
Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare
03.2016 - 09.2017
RN Pre and Post Cardiac Intervention/ER Dept.
Baptist Memorial Healthcare
02.2015 - 02.2016
HRIS Analyst
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
01.2009 - 05.2011
Master of Science - Nursing
United States University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Baptist College of Health Sciences
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems
Mercer University
Post Masters Certificate - Family Nurse Practitioner
Arkansas State University
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