Jennifer Ramseyer

Accountable for three campuses including St John Medical center, Pleasant Valley Hospital and Pleasant Valley Sub Acute Hospital in culturally diverse community

• Palliative care nurse responsibilities include: Major functions include patient screening and assessment, patient evaluation, patient communication, and patient education
• Manage complex symptoms using evidence-based practices, resulting in increased patient satisfaction.

Serve as a liaison between patients, families, and healthcare providers to ensure clear communication and optimal care coordination.

Educator for health care providers, staff and students on the principles of palliative care, enhancing their ability to provide comprehensive care palliative care and ethics. Ethicist: Participates in clinical ethic consultation, ethics committees/forums and collaborates with clinical teams, patients and families to address ethical issues. Provide ethics training

Data collection and management- Collect Palliative Care Quality Network Data.

Quality Improvement Provides education as needed to the patients/family related to cancer care, diagnostic procedures, medication/chemotherapy and other complex aspects of the plan of care.

Advanced Health Care Planning {AHCD}, POLST expert trainer

• Facility team Manager: Directs Hospice Patient care services at LTC facilities - skilled nursing facilities and RCFE’s in the Los Angeles and San Fernando Area
• Satellite office Team Manager – Manage Ventura satellite office and staff, Provide Hospice Patient care services for several hospitals, LTC facilities, and home patients
• Program Patient Care Administrator, Admissions manager on call –clinical appropriateness and Discharge Planning
• Manage: daily clinical patient oversight, weekly IDT meetings, payroll/Productivity, Hospice Certification; Obtain Authorization from Managed Care Providers- Managed Medi-cal, Managed Medicare, insurance
• Medical Review committee reviewing patient hospice appropriateness, Medicare TAR appeal review and process Pharmacy review authorization reconciliation with LTC, Medicare
• Staff Management and Education: Ensures employee Licensure, Certifications and Tests
• Manage RCA reporting Infection control reports, Incident reporting including suicide
• Cost containment- productivity, utilization of resources oversees all patient care costs, HME, medications, payment of services
• Committees: Medical review committee, Ethics meetings, QAPI Committee Meetings

• Manage ICU/CCU for 20 bed unit; RRT Rapid Response Team Responder; Implemented Quality Improvement Core measure education for Hospital Nursing staff
• Quality Improvement: ICU Policy and procedures: Committees: Disaster Preparedness, Policy and Procedures Committee:
• Communication and collaborate with families, physicians, and other members of the interdisciplinary team and family meetings to address Goals of care
• West Hills Cath Lab – American Cardiology Data Collection and entry – Collect, Analyze and Input Data PCI, Cath reports/ collaborate with cardiologist

• Coordinate Special Education and Health care for children with a variety of special health care needs
• Collaborated and Interfaced with local, county, state agencies and municipalities including extensive collaboration with Regional center, medical insurance MHC providers, and school agencies, Physicians, and caregivers
• Participated in IEP meetings with families in school setting, advocating for their health care needs
• Discharge Planning: Provide an Individualized Independent Education (IEP) and Medical Plan for home, facility and hospital setting
• Developed various Training Programs for staff and family
• Facilitated site certifications

• Managed the Coronary Care Unit for Highly Critical Cardiac Patients, coordinated emergency surgery, procedures, and treatment
• Responsible for managing and training staff, liaison between hospital administrators, nursing and ancillary staff, physicians, medical school students
• Implemented new computer documentation program; Developed new policies and procedures for quality assurance
• Developed education; Ethics committee- cases involving complex cases for patient awaiting a heart transplant and HIV

• Evaluated existing amendments and revised protocol to meet the human subject requirements
• Collaborated and supervised physicians working on study; Collaborated with UCLA physicians, operating room, nursing staff and patients