Kimberly Bronson
Morrisville,US
Summary
Dedicated nursing professional with history of meeting organizational goals to provide safe and world-class patient care, utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Acting Associate
Department of Veteran Affairs
Fulton, Durham, NC
10.2021 - Current
- Hours per week: 50
- Pay Plan: VN Grade 5, Director for Patient Cares
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Serves as a member of the Executive Leadership Team of a 1a Health
- Care System
- Responsible for the operations for Patient Care Services across 10 sites of care
- Responsible for the scope of practice and delivery for patient care
- Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to coordinate and provide improved quality healthcare in a more efficient and productive manner
- Serves as acting Nurse Executive in the absence of the Nurse
- Executive
- Responsible for performance improvement initiatives on all inpatient units and outpatient clinics
- Responsible for following directives and initiatives on the inpatient units, as well as dialysis and other outpatient clinics, as they relate to the better good of the Veteran
- Develops and supports Medical Center-wide patient care programs, policies, guidelines, and procedures that describe and guide how patients' nursing care needs are assessed, evaluated and met
- Responsible for nursing standards of practice, recruitment and retention of nursing staff working in all areas of the facility.
Supervisor
Department of Veteran Affairs
Fulton, Durham, NC
09.2019 - Current
- Marri N
- Fryar
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact me first, Hours per week: 50
- Pay Plan: VN Grade: 5
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, contact this Supervisor
Fayetteville State University
Raleigh, United States
04.2013 - Current
- Hours per week: 5, Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provide medication management to persons diagnosed with a mental illness and/or a substance use disorder
- Supervisor: Dr
- Jessica Hairston (919 636 1725)
- Okay to
Adjunct Professor
CommWell Health Inc
Murchison, Fayetteville, United States
07.2014 - 08.2019
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provides clinical instruction to nursing students in a BSN program on an inpatient psychiatric unit
- Supervisor: Dr
- Afua Arhin (910 672 1111)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
Deputy Associate Director
Support
Ramsey, Fayetteville, East Fayetteville, United States
02.2013 - 08.2019
- Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Responsible for the supervision of all staff working in patient care services in the health care system This staff is inclusive of RNs, LPNs, CNAs,
- MSAs and MITs
- Responsible for creating policies and procedures that improve the care delivered to Veterans seeking care in these areas
- Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to coordinate and provide improved quality healthcare in a more efficient and productive manner
- Serves as acting Nurse Executive in the absence of the Nurse Executive
- Responsible for performance improvement initiatives on all inpatient units and outpatient clinics
- Responsible for following directives and initiatives on the inpatient units, as well as dialysis and other outpatient clinics, as they relate to the better good of the Veteran
- Develops and supports
- Medical Center-wide patient care programs, policies, guidelines, and procedures that describe and guide how patients' nursing care needs are assessed, evaluated and met
- Responsible for nursing standards of practice, recruitment and retention of nursing staff working in all areas of the facility
- Strategically plans with the ADPCS to develop and maintain the execution of patient care services
- Assists with the development of and provides supports of an environment for ethical decision-making throughout the organization
- Ensures that patients receiving services within patient care areas have a fundamental right to considerate care that safeguards their personal dignity and respects their cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual values
- Participate with other nursing leaders, management staff, medical staff, and staff in all program areas in planning, promoting, and conducting organization-wide performance-improvement activities
- Serves on national field advisory committee for Mental Health Nursing within the Veteran Health Administration
- Serves on national committee currently working to develop new electronic medical record in collaboration with Cerner Technology
- Serves as a national Mental Health Leader
- Mentor for new Mental Health leaders
- Supervisor: Marri N
- Fryar
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact me first, Hours per week: 50
- Pay Plan: VN Grade: 4
- Chief Nurse Mental Health (This is a federal job)
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Responsible for the supervision of all staff working in patient care services in the area of mental health and dialysis
- This staff is inclusive of RNs,
- LPNs, CNAs, MSAs and MITs
- Responsible for creating policies and procedures that improve the care delivered to Veterans seeking care in these areas
- Collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to coordinate and provide mental health care, as well as dialysis care in a more efficient and productive manner
- Serves as acting Nurse Executive in the absence of the Nurse Executive
- Responsible for performance improvement initiatives on the inpatient behavior health unit
- Responsible for following directives and initiatives on the inpatient behavior health unit, as well as dialysis, as they relate to the better good of the Veteran
- Has served as Interim Chief
- Nurse for Ambulatory Care overseeing the supervision of 10 additional nurse managers and the opening of a new HCC and CBOC in the area (served in this capacity for 11 months)
- Develops and supports Medical
- Center-wide patient care programs, policies, guidelines, and procedures that describe and guide how patients' nursing care needs are assessed, evaluated and met
- Has served on the NPSB board for the facility in the capacity of the Secretary
- Responsible for nursing standards of practice, recruitment and retention of nursing staff working in the MH and Dialysis patient care areas
- Strategically plans with the ADPCS to develop and maintain the execution of patient care services
- Assists with the development of and provides supports of an environment for ethical decision-making throughout the organization
- Ensures that patients receiving services within the MH and Dialysis patient care areas have a fundamental right to considerate care that safeguards their personal dignity and respects their cultural, psychosocial, and spiritual values
- Participate with other nursing leaders, management staff, medical staff, and staff in all program areas in planning, promoting, and conducting organization-wide performance-improvement activities
- Serves on national field advisory committee for Mental Health Nursing within the Veteran Health
- Administration
- Serves on national committee currently working to develop new electronic medical record in collaboration with Cerner Technology
- Serves as a national Mental Health Leader Mentor for new Mental Health leaders
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- Supervisor: Debra Young (9104882120 7063)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes
- NC
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Southeastern Regional, Development
Dunn, Lumberton, United States
12.2010 - 02.2013
- Hours per week: 40, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
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- Provide psychiatric care to outpatient adults, providing medication management and crisis interventions
- Supervisor: Janet Stroughton (9105675020)
- Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes, Mental Health/Substance Abuse/
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
03.2010 - 12.2010
- Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provide psychiatric care to adults in a crisis walk in setting, providing medication initiation and stabilization
Nursing Supervisor
Southeastern Regional MH/SA/DD
Lumberton, United States
09.2007 - 03.2010
- Hours per week: 40, Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provided nursing supervision to nurses and CNAs on a crisis stabilization unit
- Responsible for scheduling, evaluations and day to day management of unit.
Staff Nurse
Wake County MH
Raleigh, United States
05.2004 - 09.2007
- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Work as a staff nurse on a detox unit providing medical care to patients detoxing from alcohol and various drugs
Nursing Supervisor
Holly Hill Hospital
Raleigh, United States
09.2001 - 05.2004
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- Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provide supervision to nurses and psych techs in a 108 bed psychiatric hospital
- Provide support to intake staff making clinical decisions regarding admissions.
Lead Nurse
North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women
Raleigh, United States
09.1998 - 06.2001
- Hours per week: 40, Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:
- Provided psychiatric care to mentally ill inmates in a correctional facility
- Provided crisis intervention in a correctional setting
Education
Licenses and Certifications -
ANCC Certified. NC NP# 5004677 RN#158981 - undefined
Doctorate - DNP
UNC
12.2017
Master's Degree - Psychiatric NP/CNS
UNC-Chapel Hill
08.2009
Associate's Degree - Nursing
Sampson Community College
05.1998
Skills
- Impersonations and Voice Changes
- Public Engagement
- Role Interpretation
- Goal Development
Accomplishments
- July 2016- Completed VHA Senior Lean Training
- May 2017- VA Transitions Collaborative Participant
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- June 2017- VA Staff Methodology Training
- September 2017- VA Behavior Health Leadership Training
- January 2018- Appointed to ONS Mental Health Field Advisory Committee
- Other Assignments:
- Cerner Software Development for VHA- 2018-2019
- Subject Matter Expert Reviewer for Patient Abuse Case August 2019
- Medical Investigator for OMI- February 2020
- Medical Investigator for OMI- September 2020 2018-present MH Nurse Leader Mentor
- Executive Sponsor for the Get Well Network at the DVAHCS
- Executive Sponsor for the Care Coordination/Integrated Care
- Staffing Methodology Executive Sponsor
- Executive Sponsor for the Daisy Award Committee
- Executive Sponsor for Human Centered Design Collaborative
- CPG for Schizophrenia Committee Member
Timeline
Acting Associate
Department of Veteran Affairs
10.2021 - Current
Supervisor
Department of Veteran Affairs
09.2019 - Current
Adjunct Professor
CommWell Health Inc
07.2014 - 08.2019
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, contact this Supervisor
Fayetteville State University
04.2013 - Current
Deputy Associate Director
Support
02.2013 - 08.2019
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Southeastern Regional, Development
12.2010 - 02.2013
Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
03.2010 - 12.2010
Nursing Supervisor
Southeastern Regional MH/SA/DD
09.2007 - 03.2010
Staff Nurse
Wake County MH
05.2004 - 09.2007
Nursing Supervisor
Holly Hill Hospital
09.2001 - 05.2004
Lead Nurse
North Carolina Correctional Institute for Women
09.1998 - 06.2001
Licenses and Certifications -
ANCC Certified. NC NP# 5004677 RN#158981 - undefined
Doctorate - DNP
UNC
Master's Degree - Psychiatric NP/CNS
UNC-Chapel Hill
Associate's Degree - Nursing
Sampson Community College
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