Experienced with heart transplant/cardiac care coordination, patient advocacy, and healthcare team management. Utilizes effective communication and organizational skills to drive efficient operations and high-quality patient care.
-Provided individualized outpatient post transplant care to > 230 patients, tailoring to the unique needs of each patient ensuring optimal long term health outcomes.
-Collaborated with multiple medical disciplines in the outpatient setting to ensure quality comprehensive health management.
-Responsible for facility wide post transplant education needs.
-Facilitate the daily case schedule and room assignments, manage STEMI activations, prioritize add on cases based on necessity/safety.
-Circulating RN, ensuring proper sedation, patient safety, and stability throughout procedures prioritizing optimal care and positive outcomes with ability to scrub and monitor cases.
-Facilitate daily staffing staffing and scheduling needs between cath lab and hybrid endovascular suite, with cases originating from both inpatient and outpatient sources, including STEMI activations from varying facilities.
-Circulating RN, responsible for ensuring proper sedation, patient safety, and hemodynamic stability with special ability to scrub cases, including both cardiac, and peripheral vascular cases.
-Acting overnight house supervisor with responsibilities including nursing/ support staff management, conflict resolution, and administrative facilitation of admissions, transfers, discharges, and STEMI activations.
-Management of complex cardiovascular ICU patients, both pre and post-surgical/procedural intervention.
-Charge RN of post cardiovascular and thoracic procedural/ surgical intervention unit
-Care facilitation and management of patients with complex chronic cardiovascular conditions.
-Extensive critical care management of numerous cardiovascular and thoracic conditions, including pre/post CABG, open heart valve repair/replacement, lobectomies, and VATS procedures.
-BLS / ACLS Certified
-Clinical Coach / Preceptor Trained
-Previous Magnet Clinical Council Chair Holder
-Previously CVN board certified and Clinical Educator for CVN Board Exam
-Clinical Educator for STEM Students
- Enthusiastic caregiver with strong nursing ethic, easily adaptable to change with problem solving aptitude