Jennifer Harmon
Summary
Motivated lab coordinator with 10+ years experience managing and supporting educational labs.
Dedicated, hard-working with internal drive to deliver excellence.
Effective, clear communicator with excellent interpersonal skills.
Resourceful, well-organized with exceptional work ethic and adaptability.
Successful at managing multiple priorities with accuracy and positivity.
Team collaboration to create a premier experience for staff and students.
Overview
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Certification
Work History
Laboratory Coordinator
St. Louis Community College
- Current
- Coordinate and provide outstanding quality prep, setup, maintenance, and management of labs for numerous sections of biology, microbiology, biotech, A&P, zoology, botany, heredity, genetics
- Autonomously analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues with classes, labs, and equipment and assist in classrooms as needed
- Supervise, train and mentor lab workers; onboard new faculty/staff
- Proficiently prepare media, reagents, solutions, and dilutions
- Run autoclave, certified in biohazard and universal waste disposal
- Lab Safety Committee member representing campus; create, maintain and addend districtwide Chemical Hygiene Plan with department implementation and training.
- Monitor, maintain and repair dynamic inventory of lab supplies, models, and equipment. Utilize procurement system to purchase consumables and equipment. Manage equipment service contracts.
- Create, maintain and update lab schedules, prep guides, MSD binders
- Work with faculty to create new labs, update lab textbooks and train on new equipment and procedures.
Lab Coordinator
Mesa View Regional Hospital
- Scheduled, coordinated outpatient infusions, surgeries, treatments and imaging
- Managed 50-150 incoming calls, emails, faxes daily
- Reviewed insurance benefits, obtained prior-authorizations, collected payments on accounts
- Provided patient instruction, education, preparation
- Ordered appropriate labs, procured specialized equipment and coordinated with surgical team
- Liaison between patient, insurance, clinics, hospital departments
Licensed Practical Nurse
Porters Nursing And Rehabilitation
- Provided skilled, hospice, rehabilitative, memory nursing care to patients in 53-bed facility
- Managed Certified Nursing Assistants
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of healthcare and social service providers to address patients' needs through effective intervention and care planning.
Education
Associate of Arts - General Studies
St. Louis Community College
Florissant ValleyCertificate Program - Practical Nursing
St. Charles Community College
Cottleville, MOSkills
- Integrity-based relationship building & rapport
- Banner, Blackboard, Canvas, COGNOS, Microsoft Suite, Teams, Works
- Diversity, inclusion, equity trained
- Training, supervision, mentoring lab staff
- Navigation of STEM Pathways with students
- Lab protocol development, revision, implementation
- Workplace safety certified in PPE, cleaning, sterilization, sanitation, hazardous waste handling, corrective action
- Management of dynamic department inventory
- Develop SOP for district lab safety manual; department trainer
- Utilize proprietary procurement system, manage department credit card and budget and perform accounts payable activities
- Clinical patient needs assessment, care management, EBP
- Billing, coding, transcription, benefits, pre-auth
Accomplishments
- Created Master file system of all model keys, equipment manuals, lab preps. Set up individual classroom file cabinets with updated, laminated student model keys
- Successfully streamlined test materials creating binder system with individual test setup protocol, photos, station numbers, dedicated test slides, master keys utilized by professors
- Provided outstanding support to STLCC FV Biology department during extensive Summer renovation by providing comprehensive assistance with planning, organization, execution, packing, unpacking, organizing while successfully continuing to support active labs taking place in satellite areas on campus
- Currently working to develop manual of new protocols with informational checklist to assist onboarding and orientation of new adjunct professors
- Team participant in the installation of new EHR system at Mesa View Regional Hospital. Trained department managers on use
- Volunteered weekend time for collection effort goal to close 30% of accounts prior to year-end revenue
- As SNA President, secured permanent nursing study room on campus, managed tutoring sessions and raised money for student scholarship opportunities.
- Organized fundraising, community outreach, blood drives, blood pressure screenings and public education booths
Affiliations
- Student Nurse Association President, 2016-2017
- Organized fundraising, community outreach, blood drives, blood pressure screenings and public education booths
- Phi Theta Kappa
Certification
Certificate of Practical Nursing
IV certification
BLS certification
Hazardous & Universal Waste
OSHA Lab Safety
Awards
- Presented with Outstanding Achievement Award at recognition ceremony, May 2017
- Rockstar, November 2018, served as volunteer at St. Louis Festival of Nations event
Timeline
Laboratory Coordinator
St. Louis Community College
- Current
Lab Coordinator
Mesa View Regional Hospital
Licensed Practical Nurse
Porters Nursing And Rehabilitation
Associate of Arts - General Studies
St. Louis Community College
Certificate Program - Practical Nursing
St. Charles Community College
Certificate of Practical Nursing
IV certification
BLS certification
Hazardous & Universal Waste
OSHA Lab Safety
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