Dedicated Nursing Unit Manager with 15 years of progressive nursing management experience in hospital and senior care settings. Clinically astute and management-savvy professional with proven history of developing top-notch nursing practitioners as attested by patient outcomes and surveys. Committed to up-to-date, compassionate and attentive patient care and fiscal awareness.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse Consultant
Florida Department of Health
Tallahassee, Florida
01.2012 - 01.2024
Responder Management Unit Program Administrator: As unit leader we support the Department’s capability to respond to public health emergencies and events by managing personnel resources for public health missions
The unit works with all Department Divisions and Offices and their designated Staffing Points of Contact to organize responders prepared to serve in core State ESF-8 occupations and teams
The unit is responsible for establishing and maintaining processes and procedures for managing public health and medical personnel resources before, during, and following activation or deployment
This includes supporting Responder Safety and Health while activated or deployed.
Technical Assistance & Support Supervisor: As the Community Preparedness unit leader my unit provided technical assistance, evaluation, and analysis services to the local county health department and health care coalitions.
Medical Surge Unit Leader/Health Care Coalition Preparedness Unit Leader: Started the position as the program manager responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring select Hospital Preparedness Program and Med Surge deliverables
Developed, managed, and monitored the HPP funds provided to the hospitals through contracts and deliverables before the funds went primarily to Health Care Coalitions.
Staff Nurse
Select Specialty Hospital
Tallahassee, Florida
01.2010 - 01.2011
Provide acute care bedside nursing
Manage and monitor patients on ventilators, complicated wound care, severely obese, diabetics, COPD, and complex medical patients
Mentored TCC and Keiser nursing students.
Staff Nurse
Capital City Surgical Center
Tallahassee, Florida
01.2007 - 01.2011
Provided comprehensive outpatient nursing care for patients undergoing upper endoscopies and colonoscopies on an outpatient basis
Administer conscious sedation, pre-op, and post-op care
Facilitate coordination of care between office and outpatient clinic
Interview and hire new prospective registered nurses for surgical center
Kept current ACLS license for surgical center
OSHA manager for both GI office and surgical center.
Nursing Director
GI Associates of Tallahassee
Tallahassee, Florida
01.2000 - 01.2011
Provided office nursing care for busy gastroenterology and hepatology patients
Responsibilities include managing twenty-six employees, hiring and train new medical assistants and nursing personnel
Manage and coordinate the care of cancer patients and educate families
Teach hepatitis C patients and family members self-injection treatments and management for homecare to be provided by family members
Conduct monthly nursing staff meetings
Manage esophageal and colon cancer patients, coordinate treatment plans and make proper referrals
Supervise and provide preceptorship for medical assistant students from Lively Technical School and Keiser University
Manage all new hires, educate them on office policy, and provide TB and hepatitis B injections
Provide yearly education for all employees at GIA
OSHA instructor for office
Educate patients on upcoming endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures
Coordinate liver transplant patients to Shands and Mayo clinic
Manage and correct all dictations for physician and nurse practitioners
Order and manage all clinical supplies for office
Coordinate current basic life support training for all staff members
Triage all incoming phones calls and schedule appointments and tests needed for patients
Write orders, history and physicals for procedures done at Capital Regional Medical Center and Capital City Surgical Center