Karen Hampton RN, MSN, MBA

Twenty-four hour accountability for directing and managing patient care Maintains primary responsibility for the development of the Emergency Department and procedure development.

• Budget preparation and administration of the Emergency Department, unit staff personnel decisions, Customer service relationship, and continuous quality improvement Works closely with ER medical Director and other directors to provide effective patient care.
• Skillfully developed departmental goals, objectives, standards of performance, policies and procedures.
• Organized the department in accordance with administrative guidelines in order to provide specified nursing services to meet the legal, organizational and medical staff guidelines.
• Developed a system of staff communication that ensured proper implementation of treatment plans and comprehensive patient care.
• Developed and achieved financial and growth goals.
• Managed and directed fiscal operations, including planning budgets, authorizing expenditures, accounting, establishing service rates and coordinating financial reporting.
• Investigated, provided and submitted information to Quality Department about special incidents, events and complaints.