Lauren Myers

• Assessed patient conditions to determine priorities for care and interventions.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans.
• Administered medications and monitored patient responses to ensure safety and efficacy.
• Educated patients and families on treatment options, procedures, and post-discharge care instructions.
• Streamlined triage processes, enhancing patient throughput during high-volume periods.

• Promoted professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training.
• Investigated and independently and collaboratively resolved complaints from staff, physicians, and patients by leveraging clinical judgment and unit management expertise.
• Developed and implemented quality improvement initiatives to provide best possible patient care and identify and address areas of concern.
• Established and continuously optimized unit schedules and individual work assignments. Added 8 new positions with in a 1 year period of time to support the growing needs of the departments.
• Led staff meetings, attended UBC meetings, daily huddles and put out a weekly "Huddle Highlights" to keep team informed of departmental changes and provide opportunities for nurses to share ideas and concerns.
• Collaborated with hospital leadership to devise initiatives for improving nursing satisfaction, retention and morale.
• Leveraged feedback and process improvement opportunities to create safer and healthier environment and increase patient satisfaction. Press Ganey scores were successfully increased by more than 25 points within 6 months of implementation and maintained.
• Led teams in driving successful patient outcomes by prioritizing standard of care and best practices. Improved and maintained key metrics in Chest pain, stroke, sepsis, and procedural sedation.
• Streamlined triage processes for improved patient flow and reduced wait times in the Emergency Department.
• Evaluated new medical equipment or technology for potential integration into department operations, ensuring optimal clinical benefits balanced against cost considerations in addition to participating in trainings as a "super user" for all new equipment rolled out.
• Managed budget allocation for the Emergency Department, effectively reducing operational costs without compromising quality of care.

• Sought opportunities to improve patient care, outcomes and nursing staff performance.
• Interacted effectively with department managers to promptly correct problems and improve services.
• Supervised professional nursing staff and delegated tasks to maintain continuum of care.
• Fostered improvement in staff development, personnel training, and standards of patient care.
• Coordinated departmental operations according to administrative, legal and medical guidelines.
• Evaluated nursing staff's performance and developed education programs and professional development opportunities to improve individual and team competencies, clinical knowledge and delivery of care.
• Reviewed charts weekly to complete quality control checks.
• Responded to behavioral and medical crises codes.
• Maintained a high standard of patient care by regularly monitoring nursing staff performance and providing continuous feedback.
• Oversaw inventory management processes for medical supplies, ensuring adequate stock levels without wastage or excess expenditures on resources.
• Enhanced staff communication and collaboration through regular team meetings and training sessions.

• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
• Developed and implemented an emergency department onboarding program with a guide that was adaptable to all levels of emergency nurses and techs/paramedics from new graduate to experienced.
• Oversaw onboarding and orientation of over 45 nurses, techs, and paramedics including 23 new graduate nurses with no prior emergency department experience.

• Worked in 5 different emergency departments within the THR system on a
  per diem need base.

• Emergency Department closed July 2020

• PRN Peri-operative RN for outpatient GI lab

Emergency Department 11/2012-1/2014

Telemetry/Stepdown 1/2009-11/2012