Kirsten Bailee Mallory

• Manage and lead 30 direct reports for home health agency.
• Perform quality review and ensure all Medicare standards are met.
• Review all referrals are appropriate for home health and that plans of care are developed according to Medicare regulations and individualized for each patient.
• Provided any needed education to direct reports.
• Manage billing as needed, ensure that physician orders are signed timely, and consistently meet operational margin for agency by staying within or under budget requirements for all needs of the agency.

• Managed a group of clinicians caring for patients in home health.
• Collaborated with care team, physicians, and patients\caregivers to develop appropriate plans of care individualized to each patient.
• Reviewed and ensured all insurance requirements were met and maintained throughout episodes of care.

• Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
• Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process and management and lifestyle options.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Created plans of care to assure optimal patient outcomes.
• Worked with all insurance companies, including Medicare PDGM standards, and abided by current regulations.
• Successfully transitioned patients as needed to different levels of care to ensure best outcomes. Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams and other agencies and facilities.

Circulator in EP lab. Cared for patients during critical cases including cardiac ablations, cardioversions, and pacemaker implants/extractions.

Cared for critical patients before and after heart catheterizations, EP procedures, and IR procedures. Patients cared for were critically ill, ventilated, on multiple drips and balloon pumps.

MICU RN caring for critically ill patients on the ventilator, on multiple drips, CRRT, and assisted with life-saving procedures.

As a Neuro Critical Care RN I cared for critically ill patients with neurological emergencies such as brain trauma, bleeds, and clots. Managed patients on ventilators, with drains, managed all drips, and coordinated care as indicated with interdisciplinary teams, and through transfer and/or discharge.

As an SICU RN I cared for critically ill patients with neurological emergencies such as brain trauma, bleeds, and clots. Managed patients on ventilators, with drains, managed all drips, and coordinated care as indicated with interdisciplinary teams, and through transfer and/or discharge. In this role I also cared for medically critical patients outside of neuro patients.

I cared for long term critical care patients with trach to vents, feeding tubes of all kinds, and extensive wound care regimens including, but not limited to, wound vacs.