Jessica Valentine
Oxford
Summary
Seasoned emergency nurse Nurse Education Safety Specialist
Experienced with patient care, clinical support, and emergency response. Utilizes effective communication and critical thinking skills to support Emergency Department staff needs and coordinate with healthcare teams. Track record of maintaining patient safety and delivering compassionate care in diverse medical settings.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Education Safety Specialist- Emergency Department
UMass Memorial Medical Center
05.2021 - Current
- Providing educational support to the emergency department staff
- Onboarding new employees
- Work collaboratively with Nurse Educator to develop ongoing continuing education to Emergency Department staff
- On-boarding travel nurses for assignment in Level 1 Emergency Trauma Department, including orientation information and orientation schedule
- Providing bedside education in real time to staff in the Emergency department
- Creates ongoing education using A3 Lean Methods, Evidence based data
- Preforming ongoing department skills gap analysis to create department specific education
- Presents at National Conferences
REGISTERED NURSE-EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Metrowest Medical Center
01.2022 - 04.2024
REGISTERED NURSE - EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
UMass Memorial Medical Center
10.2003 - 05.2021
- Provides direct emergency nursing care in a busy, 90-bed Level I trauma center with approximately 134,000 patients yearly
- Effectively manages 5:1 nurse patient ratio assignment
- Successfully transitioned into clinical leadership roles, such as Resource and Flow Nurse
- Flow: Ensuring optimal patient care by creating staff schedules according to the ED volume and demands, appropriately placing patients per ESI, effectively communicating with the Triage RN, CMed, Doctors, and the leadership team, and facilitating patient movement throught the ED
- Resource: Provides clinical, educational and professional support for the clinical
- Works with the staff on developing time management, prioritization, critical thinking and effective communication skills on a continuum
- Active member of Shared Governance: Developed new hire orientation, revamped unit checklists, and nursing criteria for the new critical care area within the ED (NEXT Pod)
- Assists Nurse Educators with yearly competencies
- Understanding and effectively deploying the LEAN tools to streamline work processes, eliminating waste and redundancy while improving productivity
- Serves as a labor relations steward for the emergency department
CLINICAL NURSING INSTRUCTOR- ADJUNCT FACULTY
Anna Maria College
01.2018 - 01.2019
- Clinicals were conducted on a telemetry medical surgical floor at UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus and Vibra Acute Rehab Hospital
- Responsibilities included; Training students to use the EMR specific to UMass and Vibra, pre and post- conferences, fostering work-relationships between students and the assigned patient’s health care team
- Also assisted the lead professor during health assessment lab (Fall 2018)
- Reviewing and reinforcing health assessment skills
REGISTERED NURSE – IV THERAPY
St. Vincent Hospital
01.2009 - 01.2018
- Inserting and maintaining peripheral IV’s, accessing port-a-cath devices, maintaining patency of PICC lines
CLINICAL NURSING INSTRUCTOR- ADJUNCT FACULTY
Becker College
01.2013 - 01.2017
- Instructor in the ASN program on neuro-tele adult Medical surgical floor
- Holding pre and post conference, assisting the students with prioritization, assessment, medication administration, reviewing the electronic medical record, utilizing electronic medication administration record
- Assisting students to enhance their education and communication skills with the patient
- Laboratory Instructor(Date)- On campus, utilizing the nursing lab and simulation room, teaching students nursing skills at the basic fundamentals level
- Skills included therapeutic communication, bed bath, feeding, transferring, acid base imbalance, Intake and output, crutch walking, cane walking, assessing peripheral intravenous lines, assessing skin and staging wounds
- Lecturer Adult Medical-Surgical and Pediatric Nursing (Spring, 2016) pre-licensure program - Preparing and presenting classroom material for medical-surgical nursing topics; Management of Patients with Problems of the Immune System, Oxygenation, Digestion, Nutrition, Elimination, Diabetes Gastrointestinal system, hematologic system
- Administer and review exams
- Preparing exams with a course coordinator
- Proctoring ATI-online exams
- Lecturer Adult Medical Surgical Nursing (Fall 2017) ASN program - Topics included management of patients with renal/urinary system problems, management of patients with problems of the nervous system, and management of patients with problems of the eye and ear
Education
Master of Science - Nursing Education
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT01.2016
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UMass Dartmouth
Dartmouth, MA01.2001
Skills
- Employee Involvement Strategies
- Educational Program Planning
- Project Oversight
- Evidence-Backed Execution
- Certified Lean Black Belt
- Effective Team Collaboration
- Educational Facilitation
- Professional Mentoring
- Performance Gap Analysis
- Strategic Content Creation
- Evidence based data ambassador
Certification
- Registered Nurse, Massachusetts, #RN25109, 06/24/24
- Certified Emergency Nurse, CEN, 03/18/25
- Critical Care Registered Nurse, CCRN, 01/28
- Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse, CPEN, 03/29
- Basic Life Support - Instructor, BLS, 02/27
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, ACLS, 02/27
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support, PALS, 11/25
- Trauma Nurse Core Course, TNCC, 01/25
- Emergency Nursing Pediatric Course, ENPC, 10/24
- Trauma Care After Resuscitation Course, TCAR
Affiliations
- Emergency Nurse Association (ENA)
- American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
Timeline
REGISTERED NURSE-EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Metrowest Medical Center
01.2022 - 04.2024
Nurse Education Safety Specialist- Emergency Department
UMass Memorial Medical Center
05.2021 - Current
CLINICAL NURSING INSTRUCTOR- ADJUNCT FACULTY
Anna Maria College
01.2018 - 01.2019
CLINICAL NURSING INSTRUCTOR- ADJUNCT FACULTY
Becker College
01.2013 - 01.2017
REGISTERED NURSE – IV THERAPY
St. Vincent Hospital
01.2009 - 01.2018
REGISTERED NURSE - EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
UMass Memorial Medical Center
10.2003 - 05.2021
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UMass Dartmouth
Master of Science - Nursing Education
Western Governors University
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