Lynnette Tschida

Correctional Health Nurse Manager: Interim Detoxification & Withdrawal Management Nurse Manager (January 2024-April 2024)

Named Public Health Champion of Withdrawal Management at all staff meeting March 2024

Correctional Health Nurse Manager: Interim Adult Detention Center Nurse Manager (April 2023-December 2023)

Manage daily nursing operations in the medical clinic of county jail with typical capacity of 300 plus inmates. Prepared medical unit and staff, and lead medical for Department of Corrections Inspection.

Director of Nursing, Interim Project Manager (September 2022-April 2023)

Develop Nurse Float Pool, develop wound care protocols, consult for Detoxification and Withdrawal Management program, consult for Medical Reserve Corp

Direct operations of the nursing department including staffing, hiring, admissions, medical records, Infection Prevention and Control, wound prevention and care, interdisciplinary team,state and federal compliance with annual inspections, Quality Assurance Performance Improvement, Staff Development, grant activities, Minimum Data Set, Quality Incentive Payment Programs, Performance Incentive Payment Programs, health insurance, payment and reimbursement systems, Office of Health Facility Complaints reporting and investigations, available by telephone 24/7 and may be summoned to the facility in an emergency

• Facility superuser of electronic health record PointClickCare. Update and create templates/assessments/ structure to improve staff efficiency and ensure compliance with updated regulatory requirements. Other: Epic, AllScripts, Excellion, Omniview
• COVID-19 Pandemic Response: Committee chair, designated COVID Unit with negative pressure rooms, vaccine clinics on site. Achieved citation free COVID focused health department inspections
• Awarded 5 star quality rating from the Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services.
• Implemented process and systems to maximize reimbursement. Increased facility average case mix index >1.0
• Clinical guidance and leadership to diverse team of individuals from a variety of countries with a total of 37 different languages spoken among staff throughout the facility
• Lead and conduct relocation and decommissioning activities through facility closure

Assist Director of Nursing to develop and implement policies and procedures for monumental changes in regulation and payment systems, develop wound prevention and care protocols, build templates within PointClickCare, oversee MDS Coordination/Medicare, budget monitoring/management, admissions, hiring, staff education. Facility contact and lead for quality concerns and Office of Health Facility Complaints. Acting DON as needed

• Hmong American Partnership (HAP): Developed partnership to offer Nursing Assistant Training Program onsite at the Ramsey County Care Center
• Century College: Nursing Program Advisory Panel Member. Developed partnership for clinical rotation site for nursing students
• Implement Final Rule for Long Term Care: Centers for Medicare Medicaid
• Change in payment and reimbursement systems from RUGS Grouper to Patient Driven Payment Models.
• Lead time keeping system transition, changed from TASS to Kronos
• Completed Nursing Leadership Symposium presented by Leading Age Minnesota.

Clinical manager of 62 bed long term care nursing station. Review individual resident plan of care, audit charting and assessments, resident/family and interdisciplinary collaboration, facilitate care conferences, weekly wound care rounds, staff coaching. Quality Incentive Payment Programs and Performance Incentive Payment Programs, Quality Assurance Committee, PointClickCare local user group

• Collaborate to develop and implement a plan of correction after the 2014 annual Minnesota Department of Health Survey. Managed nursing station during the 2015 annual Minnesota Department of Health Survey. The annual survey for 2015 was a deficiency free survey
• PointClickCare Summitt and Leading AgeMN Annual Conference Attendee

• Long Term Care Staff Nurse
• Transitional Care Unit Staff Nurse
• Nursing Station Charge Nurse
• Admissions Nurse
• Building Charge Nurse
• MDS Coordinator & Medicare Nurse