Kathy Williams

• Supervised nursing staff, ensuring adherence to care protocols and quality standards.
• Coordinated patient care plans in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams to optimize recovery outcomes.
• Mentored new nursing staff members to promote adherence to established best practices and foster professional growth.
• Contributed to positive team dynamics as an approachable supervisor who actively listened to concerns from both patients and nurses.

• Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians, and community organizations to enhance quality of patient care.
• Oversaw staffing requirements to maintain optimal patient care standards.
• Assisted with bed control, coordinating with transfer center to ensure smooth patient throughput.

• Established and maintained communication with staff, physicians, and community organizations to enhance patient care quality.
• Managed bed control and patient transfers within facility, ensuring compliance with EMTALA and coordinating physician consults/admissions to optimize patient outcomes.
• Coordinated logistics for ambulance and flight transports to ensure timely patient transfers.
• Assisted all staffing within facility for safe staffing models.
• Supported staffing efforts within facility to ensure adherence to safe staffing models.
• Set up ambulance/flight transports
• Rounded with purpose throughout all departments in the facility.

• Updated patient charts with medication data to ensure accurate treatment and enhance continuity of care.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.
• Monitored patients' conditions and reported changes in physical presentation, appearance, and behavior to discuss treatment with physicians.
• Directed patient care by implementing and managing plan of care, ensuring effective transitions and comprehensive discharge instructions.

• Established consistent language and methodology for talent discussions, development, and succession, enhancing clarity and alignment across teams.
• Collaborated with company leaders on change management and talent solutions, strengthening competitive positioning in the job market.
• Evaluated strengths and weaknesses of candidates through effective screening processes.
• Placed advertisements, evaluated applicant credentials, conducted initial interviews and pre-screening assessments.
• Verified applicant references and employment details.
• Cooperated with company leaders in change management and talent solutions to gain competitive edge in job market.
• Partnered with departmental managers to identify hiring needs and deliver tailored candidate recommendations, streamlining the recruitment process.

• Coordinated all worker's compensation claims, medical care, and communication with third party adjustors.
• Completed pre-placement and annual employee health and wellness screenings.
• Presented health content and led new employee orientation meetings.
• Developed and disseminated health education outreach materials to promote employee wellness and engagement.
• Conducted safety evaluations to identify and recommend improved safety procedures.
• Provided health and safety training to employees regarding safety protocols.
• Conducted safety evaluations to recommend alternate safety procedures.
• Coordinated all workers' compensation claims, medical care, and communication with third party adjustors.

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• Managed staffing across hospital during shifts in absence of department managers, ensuring adequate coverage and continuity of care.
• Coordinated on-call personnel for Cath lab, Surgery, Traumas, and Strokes to optimize response times and patient care.
• Served as member of shared governance Recruitment and Retention Council, initiating Daisy Award for Nursing to recognize exceptional patient care.
• Shared governance Recruitment and Retention Council member. Initiated the Daisy Award for Nursing.

• Monitored patient reactions to drugs and documented findings to inform treatment adjustments.
• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Updated patient charts with medication data to ensure accurate records and support effective treatment planning.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Performed testing and quality control using approved laboratory procedures and instrumentation.
• Documented all tests conducted in the laboratory to ensure accurate records.
• Interpreted and documented results of tests into active databases and communicated results to internal customers.
• Calibrated and maintained instruments to keep equipment fully operational.
• Performed routine lab and department maintenance to maintain a clean and safe working environment.

• Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
• Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments and supervising team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians, and unit clerks.
• Charge RN for several years
• Mainly worked oncology (chemo certified within facility), infectious disease, general medical floor.
• Served as charge RN, overseeing daily operations and patient care coordination.
• Contributed substantially to successful department JCAHO accreditation by consistently operating to highest standards of care.
• IV Team member PRN while working full time charge.