Kristen Martin, MHA, BSN, RN, CAPA

• Shared Leadership Advisor
• Performance Improvement Mentor
• Responsible for clinical management and administrative coordination for 43-bay Pre-op/PACU, servicing a mix of 31 OR, Hybrid, and Procedure Rooms, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Lead the 500P Pre/Post Team effort to achieve Ortho Total Joint Certification 2024, Stroke Certification 2024, and POCT Certification 2024.
• Launched inpatient mobile alternative workflow to mitigate space constraints and maintain throughput.

• Recruited and hired qualified clinical staff to bolster skills set of already talented team.
• Successfully assisted in training 4 Assistant Patient Care Managers.
• Collaborated with educators to support and meet the educational needs of staff members during CAPR and 300P merge. Developed cross-training plan.
• Collaborates with Employee Labor Relations on ELR matters.
• Coordinated delivery of exceptional patient care by evaluating workflows and facilitating positive throughput changes.
• Collaborated with Quality Team to plan for sufficient data collected develop outcomes statistics.
• Facilitated peer-to-peer conflict resolution.
• Led and motivated team of 30+ through supervision, completing annual performance evaluations, training and coaching on duties and daily operational activities.
• Successfully promoted PNDP process and supported multiple nurses in becoming newly promoted to and others in maintaining clinical nurse III by completing ACE review and reviewing portfolios.
• Created and maintained facility documents and records, maintaining accuracy while managing sensitive data.
• Collaborated with multi-disciplinary staff to improve overall patient care.
• Served as Project Manager for process improvement team: Drove process, efficiency and quality improvements, resulting in achieving and sustaining goals by decreasing patient pre op complete times for first, second and subsequent cases.
• Collaborated in Preop process mapping, identifying barriers such as difficult IV's, to preop complete times and developing resolutions to improved times.

Administered COVID 19 vaccines to the community.

• Utilizing the nursing process, provides direct care of 2 patients of all ages during Pre-op, Post-op Phase 1 and Phase 2. Duties include assessment, monitoring and recording of vital signs, recovery progress, pain assessment, IV insertion, lab draws and medication administration.
• Communicating effectively and timely with patients, families and members of multidisciplinary team.
• Functions as a Resource Nurse in PreOp and PACU. Collaborates with management, physicians, nurses and other perioperative staff to coordinate patient care. Maintains unit flow, ensures breaks given to staff, utilizes resources to problem solve as necessary to ensure patients receive efficient, quality and safe care.
• Assisted in designing SBAR hand-off tool for PACU and overnight stay nurses.
• Served as CAUTI Champion, Aromatherapy Champion for PACU trial and medication label auditor in PACU.
• Current co-writer of Huddle Highlights at the Lane Surgery Center.
• Well-versed in CI-CARE.

Completed 3 travel assignments at the Ambulatory Surgery Center.

• Managed Care of post operative patients of all ages during Phase 1 and Phase 2 of recovery.

• Managed the care of 2 critical care patients in the Medical Intensive Care Unit. Collaborated with multidisciplinary team in the planning of care for each patient.

Completed multiple 13 week contracts working at

• North Shore University Hospital, PACU, SICU
• New York Presbyterian-Columbia PACU
• Weill Cornell Medical Center PACU

• Provided 1:1 nursing critical care for a variety of medical and surgical patients including trauma, neuro, vascular and surgical patients.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary team members in establishing tailored plan of care for each patient.
  

• Responsible for managing the care of 3 monitored surgical step-down patients and served as a rotating night charge RN. Responsibilities including overseeing unit flow, breaks and staffing.
  

• Complete care of 2 monitored Step-Down Trauma patients or 5 patients on the nursing unit.