Exceptional capacity to multitask, manage and deliver results demonstrated in my leadership roles as Director and Clinical Manager over the past twenty-four years. Quality focused and efficiency driven to provide the best services possible to all customers in a positive enriched environment with a team-centered approach. Thirty-six years of dedicated service in the fields of oncology, critical care, post anesthesia care, perioperative services and orthopedic floor nursing. Each year building on my skills and knowledge through workshops, lectures, new challenges in new hospitals and continuously striving to be an efficient contributor to the health care profession.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Orthopaedics
Lakewood Ranch Medical Center
01.2017 - Current
Company Overview: a 21 bed all private room clean unit plus a 6 bed medical surgical overflow unit. Core Certified through the Joint Commission for Hip and Knee since 2016.
Responsible for the day to day operations of budget, staffing, supplies, productivity, hiring and disciplinary actions including termination.
Coordination of training and education of staff
A 21 bed all private room clean unit plus a 6 bed medical surgical overflow unit. Core Certified through the Joint Commission for Hip and Knee since 2016.
Clinical Manager Outpatient Department
HCA Healthcare Doctors Hospital
Sarasota, FL
01.2015 - 01.2017
Responsibility for Scheduling and Staffing as well as day to day operations and patient throughput and flow of Pre-Op, PAT and Chart Preparation Unit who serviced the following patients: Surgery, Endoscopy, Cardiac Cath Lab, Interventional Radiology/Radiology-Ultrasound, and Special Procedures.
Responsible for Staff Development, Hiring and Termination, Education and Training, Staff Evaluations, Coaching and Counseling, Budget and Supply usage, tracking and compliance.
Clinical Manager Pre-Op and Pre-Admission Testing
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, FL
01.2004 - 01.2015
Responsibility for Scheduling and Staffing Pre-op and PAT, Staff Development, Hiring and Termination of Staff, Education and Training, Staff Evaluations, Coaching and Counseling, Budget and Supply usage, purchase, tracking and compliance.
Contributing to the development of Policies and Procedures as well as Standards and Practice, Customer Satisfaction, Complaint Resolution, Staff and Customer Rounding, Service Recovery, Staff Recognition, Chart Auditing for staff compliance.
Member of Perioperative Services Leadership Council, Clinical Managers Leadership Council, Operating Room Efficiency Council (OREC), Core Measures Group, Chair SCIP Core Measure Process Improvement Team, Chair CSI-Comprehensive Surgical Improvement Preoperative Patient Preparation Team.
Clinical Coordinator
Cape Outpatient Surgery Center
Sarasota, FL
01.2002 - 01.2004
Responsibility for Pre-Op, Post-Op, Surgery, Scheduling, Infection Control (Reporting and Surveillance), Quality (Complaint Resolution, Creation and Maintenance of Department Performance Report, Department Plan, Department Goals, Risk Management, and Payroll.
Involvement in the Cape Quality Improvement, Medical Executive, and Surgical Assessment Committees which include physician credentialing and peer review, development of policies and procedures that are consistent with regulatory requirements.
Involvement in the hospital wide Infection Control Committee.
An integral part of a strong and accountable management team at the Cape Surgery Center that focuses on the 5 pillars of excellence with a team centered approach in our department as well as in our interaction with other departments including SMH PACU and Operating Room.
Coordination of Cape Surgery Center Volunteers.
Instrumental in getting the Center through numerous ACHA Surveys with the recent focus on JCAHO preparation for 2004.
RN II, Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, FL
01.2002 - 01.2004
Payroll editor and approver.
Direct patient care provider for patients receiving general to local anesthesia with health ranging from poor (requiring invasive lines, vasoactive drips, ventilatory support, one–to-one intensive nursing care), to healthy (requiring routine PACU care).
Clinical Coordinator, PACU
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Sarasota, FL
01.1996 - 01.2001
Coordinated staffing and patient assignments for a 16 bed Phase I PACU and a 9 bed Phase II PACU with a 30 member staff.
Operational responsibility for the unit, which includes accountability for the quality of patient care, the performance of the nursing staff, assisting in the development and management of the budget, and the orientation, education and development of the staff.
Staff Nurse, PACU/ Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Manatee Memorial Hospital
Bradenton, FL
01.1992 - 01.1995
Staff Nurse, PACU, provided care to patient of all ages with general health ranges from good to poor, from acutely ill to chronically ill, patients who have received a variety of surgical services such as: vascular, thoracic, orthopedics, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, pulmonary, urologic, gynecologic and plastics.
Staff Nurse, Intensive Care Unit (ICU): Staff RN in a combined medical and surgical intensive care area with responsibilities including providing care for critically ill patients requiring ventilatory assistance and invasive hemodynamic monitoring.
Acting relief charge nurse of this 13-bed unit, making patient assignments for 6-7 RNs based on the needs of the patients.
Functioned as a skilled member of the Code (Cardiac Arrest) Team that responded to house-wide cardiac and respiratory arrests.
Travel RN
TravCorps Traveling Nurse Agency
01.1989 - 01.1992
Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg, FL
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
Baptist Medical Center, Jacksonville, FL
North Carolina Baptist/ Wake Forest Hospital, Winston-Salem, NC