Jodie Beaulieu RN
South Windsor,CT
Summary
Seasoned nursing professional offering more than 18 years of experience in the community and acute care setting with a focus on Hospice and Palliative care nursing as well as a dedicated background as a nurse educator for 5 years in both community and acute care spaces.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Palliative Care Nurse Educator
Hartford Hospital
03.2022 - Current
- Provide complex comprehensive, advanced, specialized services for people with serious illness.
- Improve person-centered and family focused care through expert nursing practice and inter-professional collaboration.
- Develop and implement palliative and hospice care education for nurses, residents, hospitalist and doctors throughout Hartford Hospital.
- Recognize and understand specific stages of dying process, providing education to staff on symptom management and comfort-based plan of care.
Hope and Hospice Transitional Care Coordinator
Hartford Healthcare At Home
03.2021 - 03.2022
- Collaboration with hospital case managers, skilled nursing facilities, home care agencies and physicians to coordinate care of patients moving from one level of care to another.
- Liaison between healthcare team, patients, families and caregivers to ensure safe transition.
- Provide information and guidance to patients and families to improve self-management skills and knowledge.
- Responsible for building relationships as well as identifying opportunities to be a strategic partner, generating referrals and building new clinical initiatives.
- Performing pre-discharge patient and family assessment
- Preparing and maintaining accurate patient records to support sound medical practice.
Clinical Education Specialist
Hartford HealthCare At Home
03.2020 - 03.2021
- Assisted with development of improved education and training materials.
- Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.
- Taught Epic computer education classes for new Hartford Healthcare employees
Palliative/Hospice Nurse Educator
Hartford Healthcare At Home
10.2019 - 03.2020
- Preceptor and role model for new and existing employees
- Assess individualized learning needs/planned learning experiences
- Demonstrate techniques using evidence based and best practice standard
- Evaluate performance of new and current staff, offer feedback for improvement
- Ongoing clinical education
- Communicate with hope/hospice team managers and clinicians to address learning
- Collaborate with education team members to enhance orientation learning experience
- Recognized and understood specific stages of dying process, providing comfort-based care during vulnerable times.
Hospice Rn Case Manager
Hartford Healthcare At Home
11.2012 - 10.2019
- Provided hospice and palliative care at home, assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
- Ensured compassionate care to terminally ill patients
- Worked within interdisciplinary team of attending physicians, social workers and pastoral counselors to provide continuity of care and excellent symptom management.
- Assessed and reassess all physical, environmental and emotional factors to determine needs of patient and their families as well provide education and support.
- Responsible for coordination of care, supervision and evaluation of aides and LPN's assigned to patient
Licensed Practical Nurse
Hartford Healthcare at Home formerly VNA Healthcare
06.2007 - 12.2012
- Provide skilled nursing care to clients in home and community-based settings ensuring delivery of high-quality care.
- Collaborated with all team members to achieve exceptional outcomes.
- Applied nursing process with patients and families, integrating principles that reflect sensitivity to age-specific/developmental needs, gender, culture, religion, psychosocial and socioeconomic backgrounds in order to provide holistic care and dignity of each individual.
- Medication administration, management and education, wound care and proper documentation.
Education
Certification - Hospice And Palliative Care
Hospice And Palliative Care Credentialing Center
OnlineMasters In Education - Nursing Education
Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UTAssociate of Science - Nursing
Excelsior College
Albany, NY2012
Licensed Practical Nurse - Nursing
Howell Cheney Satellite School
Enfield, CT2005
Skills
- Hospice and palliative care
- Advanced clinical judgement
- Problem resolution capability
- Credentialed to teach EPIC
- Nurse preceptor/mentor
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Strong teaching skills
- Clinical education specialist
Accomplishments
Certified to teach EPIC
Wound care certified
ELNEC certified
Hospice and Palliative care certified
Trained to teach CPR
Timeline
Palliative Care Nurse Educator
Hartford Hospital
03.2022 - Current
Hope and Hospice Transitional Care Coordinator
Hartford Healthcare At Home
03.2021 - 03.2022
Clinical Education Specialist
Hartford HealthCare At Home
03.2020 - 03.2021
Palliative/Hospice Nurse Educator
Hartford Healthcare At Home
10.2019 - 03.2020
Hospice Rn Case Manager
Hartford Healthcare At Home
11.2012 - 10.2019
Licensed Practical Nurse
Hartford Healthcare at Home formerly VNA Healthcare
06.2007 - 12.2012
Certification - Hospice And Palliative Care
Hospice And Palliative Care Credentialing Center
Masters In Education - Nursing Education
Western Governors University
Associate of Science - Nursing
Excelsior College
Licensed Practical Nurse - Nursing
Howell Cheney Satellite School