Jamie Ward
Registered Nurse
Jonesboro,IN
Summary
Seasoned Surgical Services Staff Nurse with over 14 years of experience in the surgical environment, including 5 years in leadership roles. Proven ability to lead, motivate, and mentor teams while managing shift schedules and overseeing daily operations to enhance efficiency and productivity. Strong organizational and problem-solving skills effectively address operational challenges, ensuring seamless workflow. A consistent track record of fostering team collaboration and maintaining high standards in dynamic healthcare settings underscores a commitment to excellence in patient care.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
CVOR Registered Nurse
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie, IN
09.2024 - Current
- Prepare the operating room for each case.
- Interview and assess the surgical patient pre-operatively.
- Follow infection control procedures.
- Circulate in the operating room while maintaining patient safety, monitoring and anticipation of surgeon, anesthesiologists, and perfusionish needs.
- Observed surgeon's body language, movements and demeanor during operations to anticipate needs.
- Collect blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens and prepare for the lab testing.
Registered Nurse, Surgical Services
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie, IN
11.2011 - Current
- Prepare the operating room for each case.
- Interview and assess the surgical patient pre-operatively.
- Follow infection control procedures.
- Circulate in the operating room while maintaining patient safety, monitoring and anticipation of surgeon and anesthesiologists needs.
- Observed surgeon's body language, movements and demeanor during operations to anticipate needs.
- Collect blood, tissue, and other laboratory specimens and prepare for the lab testing.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
- Perform as charge nurse, keeping as many as ten surgical rooms running.
Clinical Advisor
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie, IN
06.2022 - 09.2024
- Developed comprehensive orientation program tailored for RNs, CSTs, and ORAs in surgical department.
- Developed structured weekly assignments to enhance training and integration of orientees in surgical department.
- Designed and delivered RN Foundations course for new surgical RNs within surgical department.
- Collaborated with sales reps and experienced staff members to have relevant and reliable inservices for the surgical team.
- Led clinical protocol development to enhance patient care standards.
- Mentored interdisciplinary teams on best practices and evidence-based guidelines.
- Collaborated with healthcare providers to optimize treatment plans and interventions.
- Mentored junior staff members, sharing clinical expertise to foster professional growth and development.
Shift Coordinator, Surgical Services
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie, IN
06.2019 - 06.2022
- Assist in managing daily operational functions for a ten room operating room department.
- Provide guidance and leadership for staff across the operating room department.
- Coordinate the OR schedule in collaboration with anesthesia, surgeons and staff.
- Collaborate with surgical services team and ancillary departments to meet the needs of the department.
- Daily operating room staff assignments.
- Regulate call assignment for RNs and CSTs.
- Oversee operating room staff vacation requests, helping ensure staff has a work/life balance while keeping the operating room safe and efficient.
- Look ahead at staffing numbers and find gaps, post bonus shifts to cover these gaps.
- Oversee the weekly schedule review for the following weeks cases, thus helping ensure we have all the required supplies including special orders here and available.
- Delegate tasks to team members and assess compliance.
- Collaborated with multiple staff members to create and/or update standards of work for charge nurse, circulating nurse, CST, ORA and CSRTO positions.
General/CV Surgery Specialty Coordinator
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie, IN
03.2017 - 07.2019
- Oversaw any preference card changes and/or needs for General/CV surgeons.
- Created preference cards for two new General surgeons.
- Checked the weekly schedule review to ensure all General/CV cases were booked correctly and that all necessary supplies were ordered and available.
- Collaborated with the vendor and vascular surgeon to update the vascular graft cart to help ensure we have the correct grafts available.
- Collaborated with the vendor and vascular surgeon to get consignment EVAR grafts in the department for emergencies.
Interim Shift Coordinator Surgical Services
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
Muncie, IN
10.2018 - 06.2019
- Area of focus was on supply chain and the operating room product supply inventory.
- Collaborated with supply chain to help improve proper par levels for supply inventory.
- Oversaw the weekly schedule review for the following weeks cases, thus helping ensure we had the all the required supplies including special orders here and available.
- Collaborated with the Medical Director of Surgical Services to create and add a spreadsheet of the operating room "white space" to the weekly schedule review, giving the doctors offices opportunity to add cases to this white space.
- Collaborated with Specialty Coordinators and supply chain to do a complete revamp of the OR supply room, relocating like items together by specialty, assigning each specialty a color and adding large color coded labels to each item.
Registered Nurse
St Vincent Carmel Hospital
Carmel, IN
06.2008 - 11.2011
- Played a role in the opening of the new Orthopedic Unit and creating an orthopedic protocol.
- Provided postoperative care for patients with joint replacements, spinal and fracture surgeries.
- Provided education to patients and families in regards to physical therapy, pain management, anticoagulant therapies, diabetes, infection prevention, and other multi system disease processes.
- Demonstrated proper documentation with Eclipsys computerized documentation system.
- Performed as a charge nurse, assigning admissions, delegating responsibilities, assisting with rapid responses, and making patient assignments for the oncoming shift.
- Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
Education
Associate of Science - Nursing
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Anderson, IN05-2008
Bachelor of Science - Animal Sciences
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN05-2002
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Work Schedule Creation
- Staff Supervision
- Managing Operations and Efficiency
- Scheduling and Coordinating
- Education and Training
- Attention to Detail
- Ability to Multitask
- Patient-Oriented
- Compassionate and Empathetic
- Dependable
- Loyal
Certification
- Certified Nurse Operating Room (CNOR) July 2019
- Academy for Nursing Excellence December 2015
- Basic Life Support 2008 to present
Timeline
CVOR Registered Nurse
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
09.2024 - Current
Clinical Advisor
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
06.2022 - 09.2024
Shift Coordinator, Surgical Services
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
06.2019 - 06.2022
Interim Shift Coordinator Surgical Services
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
10.2018 - 06.2019
General/CV Surgery Specialty Coordinator
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
03.2017 - 07.2019
Registered Nurse, Surgical Services
IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital
11.2011 - Current
Registered Nurse
St Vincent Carmel Hospital
06.2008 - 11.2011
Associate of Science - Nursing
Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana
Bachelor of Science - Animal Sciences
Purdue University