Julie McBride

• Registry Site Manager for NCDR CathPCI & LAAO Registries
• Efficiently & Accurately Abstract & Analyze data for cardiac registries.
• Expertly & Quickly navigates EPIC EMR
• Report Data at Cath Conference & CV Quality & Safety meetings to elicit physician & leader engagement.
• Increased participation in Quality Improvement initiatives to improve patient care (AKI, site bleeding, mortality)
• Partnered with IT to create dependable reports to drastically cut abstraction time for 4 registries.
• Always first to volunteer to learn new work & Assist team members to prevent backlog in their fields of work - PSI (Pt Safety Indicators), STS Cardiac Surgery, NCDR CPMI, hand hygiene audits, chart reviews.
• Traveled to NCDR conference annually to stay up to date on best practices.

• Managed post procedure arterial sites-pulling femoral sheaths & deflating TR bands while coordinating care of 4-5 step-down level patients.
• Managed emergency situations using ACLS protocol.
• Charge nurse & Preceptor- Assessed situation & flexed staff & delegated tasks based on changing acuity.
• Built trust between patient, caregivers, and healthcare team.
• Extensively educated patients & families from cardiac rehab perspective on diet, exercise, medications, follow-up.
• Received multiple GEM (Going the extra mile) awards for outstanding care and patient interactions. Consistently rated superior on annual evaluations by leaders.
• During COVID, volunteered on progressive telemetry unit, ICU, and Emergency Department to perform tasks in effort to alleviate workload of frontline staff.

• Coordinated holistic care to 4-6 complex medsurg, telemetry, and stepdown patients with multiple specialties.
• Monitor cardiac rhythms, ventilator & chest tube maintenance, dressing changes.
• Teamwork & Time Management a necessity on this unit.
• Resourceful preceptor to new staff, orienting travel nurses. Enjoy teaching.
• IV drip management of Lidocaine, Dobutamine, Nitroglycerin, Dopamine, Insulin, Cardizem.
• Shared governance member

• Performed as charge nurse while managing 4 patients.
• Coordinated care of critically ill patients, including post op day 1 CABG, carotid endarterectomy, PVI, Pacemaker/AICD
• Titration of cardiac IV drips.
• Skillfully removed arterial sheaths from post procedure pts.
• Educated patients & families on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

• Performed direct patient care under guidance of RN.

• Volunteer service while in college
• Provided emergency care and transported to hospital

Minor in Psychology