Karissa Bae
Richmond,VA
Summary
Experienced Clinical Coordinator with strong leadership and clinical coordination skills. Proactive and dedicated to leveraging these abilities in a new role. Proficient in task delegation, staff recruitment, and scheduling. Committed to ensuring staff compliance with safety and health standards. Skilled at managing resources and fostering a supportive work environment to deliver exceptional patient care.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Coordinator RN
VCU Health System - Acute Neuroscience
04.2024 - Current
- Supervised and managed daily activities of clinical team consisting of physicians, nurses, and support staff.
- Coordinated, monitored, assigned, and documented patient and clinical care activities.
- Implemented new policies and educated staff on changes.
- Built strong relationships with patients and families for optimized care satisfaction.
- Mentored new clinical staff members for proper onboarding and orientation processes.
- Conducted ongoing monitoring and evaluations of behaviors and conditions, and updated clinical supervisors with current information.
- Remained calm during high-stress, critical situations, demonstrating sustained focus and problem-solving in real-time.
- Collaborated with leadership to devise initiatives for improving nursing satisfaction, retention and morale.
Registered Nurse
VCU Health System - Acute Neuroscience
01.2022 - Current
- Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use, and disease management.
- Facilitated therapeutic communication, conflict resolution and crisis intervention by redirecting negative behaviors and helping patients regain or improve coping abilities.
- Reported findings to quality departments after conducting routine infection prevention audits and worked with team to devise corrective actions for deficiencies.
- Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Participated in evidence-based practice project implementation, nursing competency development and nursing simulation activities.
- Communicated with healthcare team members to plan, implement and enhance treatment strategies.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Radford University
Radford, VA12-2021
Skills
- Time Management
- Critical Thinking
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Post Operative patient care: trauma,neuro, ortho, ent
- Ultrasound IV trained
- Certifications: TCAR, PCCN, ACLS and BLS certified
- Verbal deescalation of violent patients
- Wound care
- Unit Leadership
- Effective communication
- Stroke patient care
- Patient Advocacy
Knowledgeskillsabilities
- Empathy
- Time management
- Critical thinking
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Motivational interviewing
Certification
- CPR/BLS certifications up to date
- Experienced with EPIC SYSTEMS & Meditech EHR software
- SOAR for Health Care provided by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (responding to human trafficking)
- Mental Health First Aid
- Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children certification (protecting children from sexual abuse)
- Carolina Acute Stroke Training (CAST), 05/25/22, 06/22/22
Leadershipengagement
- ReNew The New, Radford, VA, 09/01/19, Collaborated as a massive team and contributed into segmenting participants into efficient subgroups
- Student Nurse Organization, Vice President, 2021, (2018-2021)
- National Student Nursing Association, (2018-2021)
- Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, (2018-2021)
- Emergency Department Practicum, Lewis Gale Cave Spring ED, 2021
- Interprofessional Collaboration Training, 2021
- Blood pressure and BMI screening and education at Christiansburg community fair, 2021
Timeline
Clinical Coordinator RN
VCU Health System - Acute Neuroscience
04.2024 - Current
Registered Nurse
VCU Health System - Acute Neuroscience
01.2022 - Current
- CPR/BLS certifications up to date
- Experienced with EPIC SYSTEMS & Meditech EHR software
- SOAR for Health Care provided by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (responding to human trafficking)
- Mental Health First Aid
- Darkness to Light’s Stewards of Children certification (protecting children from sexual abuse)
- Carolina Acute Stroke Training (CAST), 05/25/22, 06/22/22
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Radford University
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