Jessica Nagra MSN-CNL, RN, RNC-NIC

Clinical Practice Quality Specialist with over 6 years of experience in the Neonatal ICU and previous Neonatal assistant nurse manager. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. As a Neonatal ICU leader, the goal is to improve healthcare practices through research, education, and evidence-based practice to support patients, families, and staff.

• Registered Nurse in California, License number 95113080, current
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification [2021-2023]
• S.T.A.B.L.E. Instructor [2023]
• Basic Life Support (BLS) CPR Certification [2022 - 2024]
• Clinical Nurse Leader certificate - [05/15/23 - 12/31/28]
• RNC-NIC - [01/26/23 - 03/15/26]

Clinical Practice Quality Specialist - Neonatal Region 03/06/23 - Current

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, CA

• Leading and facilitating the development of practices, policies, and education to advance high-quality patient outcomes for the neonatal population regionally.
• Working directly with the Neonatal leads and neonatal management teams to provide clinical expertise for our most complex care patients, streamlining standard procedures, and providing education to all staff nurses.
• Participating in the development, implementation, and evaluation of departmental, divisional and organizational goals by participating in quality improvement projects through the Vermont Oxford Network and CPQCC, including problem identification, data collection, and monitoring department results.
• Liaisons with patient care services in developing, implementing, and supporting patient care clinical policies/procedures and quality improvement efforts for the organization.

Assistant Nurse Manager - Level III NICU 9/14/22 - 02/24/23

Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA

• Managing over 50 registered nurses, while being involved in patient centered care, and continuing to provide evidenced based education to both staff members and families alike.
• QI Projects: Gastric tube placement improvement project to reduce gastric perforations, policy committee, palliative care product introduction and implementation, cost benefit analysis on Hugs and Cuddles security system, identified the use of a code blue application to document codes.

RN II - Level III NICU 2/5/2020 - 9/10/22

Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center, Santa Clara, CA

RN II - Level IV NICU 1/7/2019 - 11/14/2019

Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Palo Alto, CA

RN II - Level IV NICU 6/5/2017 - 12/31/2018
Valley Children's Healthcare Madera, CA

Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing: Sigma is an international community of nurses, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, teaching, learning, and service through the cultivation of communities of practice, education, and research.

National Association of Neonatal Nurses: Community of registered nursing professionals at all stages of their careers who care for newborn infants born with a variety of health challenges, including prematurity, birth defects, infection, cardiac malformations, and surgical problems.

• NANN Poster Presentation 2022: Neonatal Orogastric & Nasogastric Tube Placement: Evidence Based Improvement Prospectus