Jason Walters

• Manage a preoperative holding and post anesthesia care unit caring for a range of procedures including endoscopy, general, eye, and orthopedic surgery. This includes a staff of 33 nurses, secretaries, and transporters. Manage the day to day activities, quality, joint commission readiness, and patient care. Oversee a scheduling committee of four nurses. Maintained a patient satisfaction score of over 91% in 2023.
• Manage a pre anesthesia services department with a staff of nine. Responsible for quality of calls, testing, standing orders, and monthly staff meetings.
• Manage a non invasive cardiovascular stress lab with a staff of three. Oversee the safe administration of walking and chemical stress testing and all other modalities included in this testing.
• Management of vascular access services which includes two nurse inserters of central venous catheters. Responsible for quality related to CLABSI measures involving our department. Also oversee preoperative staff serving as an IV team for the entire hospital.
• Management of employee files for all of the above departments and maintenance of licensure and certifications.

Organization of day to day activities in a busy surgical pavillion. My duties included staff assignments, inpatient surgery work ups, care and preparation of complex patients for surgery, and all quality associated with perioperative care.

• Preparation of complex patients for surgical procedures including general, orthopedic, heart and vascular, and all other minor procedures. Also post operative care and assessment using the nursing process and critical care skills to facilitate safe recovery of patients from anesthesia.

Care of critically ill patients in a step down ICU environment