Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Awards and Projects
Professional Memberships
Timeline
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Lisa Andronica, MSN, RN

Saranac Lake,N.Y.

Summary

Adept Nursing Informatics Clinician with a proven track record at Adirondack Medical Center. I excel in leveraging computer skills and teamwork to enhance clinical processes and patient care. My background includes improving clinical decision support systems, and significantly enhancing patient outcomes through innovative health informatics solutions. I work closely with affiliated nursing program institutions and Clinical Instructors in developing and improving student nurse onboarding for clinical rotations. I provide mentorship to staff nurses and student nurses. I am excited to provide remote educational opportunities to nursing students by sharing my knowledge as a nursing instructor.

Overview

37
37
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Nursing Informatics Clinician

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2012 - Current
  • Assess and enter data and quality measures
  • Characterize, evaluate, and refine clinical processes, develop, implement, and refine clinical decision support systems
  • Provide front line nursing staff and student nurses with onboarding training and continuous user support and education of the electronic health record.

COVID-19 Swab Clinic

03.2020 - 03.2023
  • Assist the clinic six hours per week in addition to my regular nursing role to provide COVID-19 swabbing for preop patients and all community members.

Patient Care Coordinator

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2018 - 01.2020
  • Responsible for supervising the day-to-day nursing activities of the 100-bed inpatient and outpatient facility
  • Supervision was in accordance with current federal, state, and local standards, guidelines, and regulations that governed the healthcare facility to ensure that the highest degree of quality care was maintained at all times.

Endoscopy Suite/Same Day Surgery Unit

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2004 - 01.2012
  • Complete specialized care of the adult and pediatric patient who required diagnostic screening or same day surgery.

Hemodialysis Unit

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2000 - 01.2004
  • Specialized care of adult patients with end stage renal disease
  • Responsibilities included providing hemodialysis treatments, closely monitoring hemodynamic status during treatments, patient/family education of disease process and fluid restriction.

Ambulatory Surgery Unit

South Nassau Communities Hospital
01.1997 - 01.2000
  • Complete specialized care of the adult patient undergoing elective surgery
  • Responsibilities include caring for the patient through all phases of the perioperative process from admission to discharge.

Post Anesthesia Care Unit

Winthrop University Hospital
01.1995 - 01.1997
  • Specialized care of the adult and pediatric patient post-surgical procedure
  • Responsibilities include monitoring patients emerging from anesthesia, pain management, wound management, and patient teaching.

Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Winthrop University Hospital
01.1991 - 01.1995
  • Specialized care of the adult critically ill patient status post coronary artery bypass surgery
  • Knowledge of mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic and cardiac monitoring, balloon pump, fluid and electrolyte balance
  • In addition, expert care of the postoperative patient with neurological, major abdominal, vascular, thoracic, and multiple traumas.

Medical/Surgical Units

Atlantic City Medical Center-Mainland Division
01.1988 - 01.1991
  • Direct specialized care provided to adult patients with acute health conditions
  • Utilized knowledge, judgment, and skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care for patients
  • Nursing practice involved diagnosing and treating human responses to actual or potential problems, and provision of supportive to or restorative of life.

Education

Master of Science - Nursing

Excelsior University
Albany, NY
07.2023

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Excelsior College
Albany, NY
07.2018

Associate of Science - Nursing

Atlantic Cape Community College
Mays Landing, NJ
06.1988

Skills

  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Computer Skills
  • Student Mentoring
  • Classroom assessment techniques

Certification

• BLS: Basic Life Support, renewal 2024

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support, renewal 2024

• Nurse Manager Certificate 2016

Awards and Projects

 2024: Florence Nightingale Excellence in Nursing Award


 2023: Adirondack Medical Center- Implementation of Student Nurse Externship Program


 2021: Adirondack Medical Center - Peak of Excellence Award. Honorable Mention. Implementation of Patient Education Videos.


 2020: Adirondack Medical Center - Peak of Excellence Award. Honorable Mention. Implementation of Qliq, Secure Text Messaging.


 2018: Adirondack Medical Center Peak of Excellence Award. Honorable Mention. Implementation of the Pasero Opioid-Induced Sedation Scale (POSS) in the eMAR.

Professional Memberships

ANA: American Nurses Association


NYONL: New York Organization for Nurse Leaders, Northeastern Chapter


STTI: Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing

Timeline

COVID-19 Swab Clinic

03.2020 - 03.2023

Patient Care Coordinator

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2018 - 01.2020

Nursing Informatics Clinician

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2012 - Current

Endoscopy Suite/Same Day Surgery Unit

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2004 - 01.2012

Hemodialysis Unit

Adirondack Medical Center
01.2000 - 01.2004

Ambulatory Surgery Unit

South Nassau Communities Hospital
01.1997 - 01.2000

Post Anesthesia Care Unit

Winthrop University Hospital
01.1995 - 01.1997

Surgical Intensive Care Unit

Winthrop University Hospital
01.1991 - 01.1995

Medical/Surgical Units

Atlantic City Medical Center-Mainland Division
01.1988 - 01.1991

Master of Science - Nursing

Excelsior University

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Excelsior College

Associate of Science - Nursing

Atlantic Cape Community College

• BLS: Basic Life Support, renewal 2024

• ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support, renewal 2024

• Nurse Manager Certificate 2016

Lisa Andronica, MSN, RN