Maria Vermette
Summary
Compassionate registered nurse with background in both acute and outpatient perioperative setting, and unit leadership. Skilled in fast-paced environments, prioritizing patient needs and delivering high-quality care. Strong communication abilities ensure effective collaboration with healthcare teams. Improved patient satisfaction through attentive service and advocacy. Known for strong leadership skills and patient-focused care. Experience includes managing nursing staff, coordinating with medical professionals, and ensuring high standards of healthcare services. Strengths lie in interdisciplinary collaboration, team building, quality improvement, operational efficiency, and policy implementation.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Manager
UNC Medical Center
, USA
03.2023 - 11.2024
- Supervise team of 55 FTEs including nurses and nursing assistants to deliver exceptional and safe patient care in the perioperative setting
- Promoted a positive work environment through effective communication with staff members.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary team to ensure safe patient care, efficient patient flow, while working towards shared goals
- Successfully recruit, onboard, and retain a diverse team of nurses and nursing assistants with the appropriate skill mix to meet patient and family needs
- Cultivate strong working relationships with members of the team through effective and professional communication, and teamwork
- Facilitated communication between physicians, nurses, support services personnel.
- Ensure the unit remains survey ready by remaining compliant with hospital policies and meeting regulatory and professional practice standards
- Make fiscally responsible decisions regarding unit resources to adhere to budgetary constraints
- Support professional development and enhancement of clinical and leadership skills among staff
- Collaborate and plan with nurse educators to meet educational needs of unit staff
- Lead and participate in quality and performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety and quality care
- Contributed to the planning and successful opening of NC Surgical Hospital
- Work alongside staff to provide care to patients in Preoperative and Postoperative setting as unit charge RN
- Serve as an advocate for staff and patients in all operational aspects
- Ensure adequate and appropriate staffing for 24/7 operations of Preop and PACU
Asst. Nurse Manager Preop/PACU
Duke Ambulatory Surgery Center Arringdon
03.2020 - 03.2023
- Collaborated and provided input regarding formation of new freestanding surgery centers within Duke University Health System (DUHS) from the ground up
- Established policies/procedures, clinical workflows and start up supplies/materials for operation of preoperative and postoperative units
- Participated in initial surgery center accreditation through AAAHC
- Ensure unit compliance with surgery center and health system policies & procedure, and regulatory standards
- Participating member of the surgery center’s Medical Executive Committee
- Collaborate with staff, OR Manager, Clinical Operations Director, and Associate Chief Nursing Officer to build a culture of safety, excellent care, and teamwork and to recruit/retain staff
- Interview, hire and supervise 30+ Preoperative/Postoperative clinical staff
- Approve timecards, monitor employee attendance and availability for work
- Create unit schedule and daily unit staffing assignments
- Conduct staff evaluations and performance of coaching conversations
- Developed surgery center specific unit orientation and skills competencies for oncoming Preoperative/Postoperative staff
- Encourage and support staff participation in continuing education, committees, clinical ladder advancement
- Monitor monthly Press Ganey patient feedback and look for quality improvement opportunities to enhance patient and staff satisfaction
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary team to establish same day outpatient Total Joint Arthroplasty program, workflow, joint coordinator, patient education class, nursing order sets and patient education materials
- Utilize critical thinking skills to proactively anticipate the needs of surgery center staff, patients and unit, and actively seek out resources to create solutions
- Lead surgery center all staff meetings, and daily huddles
- Collaborated with providers to obtain and maintain Code Carts, Malignant Hyperthermia Cart and Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity (LAST) treatment kits
- Lead unit as Charge RN when needed, maintain clinical nursing skills and life support certifications
- Collaboration with surgery center pharmacy technician, anesthesia team and surgeons to create medication inventory and implementation of Omnicell medication cabinets
- Implemented DUHS Covid-19 protocols within surgery center and medical office building
Clinical Nurse II
Duke Eye Center
11.2017 - 03.2020
- Company Overview: Perianesthesia - Clinical Nurse II
- Provided care for adult and pediatric patients in both the preoperative and postoperative setting including both Phase I and Phase II
- Functioned as a preceptor and resource to new staff who are orienting to the unit
- Charge nurse for assignment of staff based on the acuity of patients
- Lead member of unit scheduling committee responsible for completing unit schedule for 25 FTEs
- Collaborated with unit clinical team lead and manager to transition to different evening staffing model to remove on-call requirement for staff
- Educated patients and families on surgical process for preop, intraop, and postop
- Collaborated with medical team to discharge patients and ensure movement and efficiency of postoperative unit
- Assisted patients with pain management postoperatively and teach non-pharmacological techniques to maintain comfort at home
- Advocated for patients and families by following up on concerns and questions related to surgery and by utilizing appropriate resources to meet their needs
- Analyzed vital signs, blood glucose, heart rhythms prior to surgery for any abnormalities and after surgery to note any changes
- Collaborated with anesthesia team members and OR scheduler to complete preoperative phone calls to decrease day of surgery cancellations and anticipate the needs of patients
- Perianesthesia - Clinical Nurse II
Clinical Nurse II
Duke Regional Hospital
07.2016 - 11.2017
- Company Overview: Cardiac Stepdown Unit - Clinical Nurse II
- Performed care for patients post cardiac catheterization and coronary artery bypass graft
- Monitored heart rhythm and rate and titrated drips according to patient needs
- Assisted in bedside femoral artery sheath pulls post cardiac catheterization
- Value collaboration with an interdisciplinary team to utilize resources and address patient and family needs
- Used critical thinking skills to assess patients and intervene proactively to prevent emergencies
- Responded quickly and appropriately in emergent situations to help stabilize patients
- Provided education to patients throughout hospital stay and upon discharge to minimize hospital readmissions
- Completed Nurse Residency program within one year of hire, and promoted to CNII after completion of residency project titled 'Chest Physiotherapy in Postoperative Coronary Artery Bypass Patients'
- Cardiac Stepdown Unit - Clinical Nurse II
Education
Master of Science - Nursing, Concentration in Administration & Leadership
Queens University of Charlotte
Charlotte, NC12.2023
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC05.2016
Skills
- Staff supervision
- Electronic charting expertise
- Quality improvement
- Direct patient care
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Microsoft Word
- PowerPoint
- Excel
- Outlook
- Epic
- Zoom
- Webex
- Adobe
Certification
- BLS: Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers
- ACLS: Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- CAPA: Certified Ambulatory Perianesthesia RN Certification
- Clinical Nurse III: Advanced DUHS Nursing Clinical Ladder
Credentials
- MSN
- BSN
- RN
- CAPA
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Nurse Manager
UNC Medical Center
03.2023 - 11.2024
Asst. Nurse Manager Preop/PACU
Duke Ambulatory Surgery Center Arringdon
03.2020 - 03.2023
Clinical Nurse II
Duke Eye Center
11.2017 - 03.2020
Clinical Nurse II
Duke Regional Hospital
07.2016 - 11.2017
Master of Science - Nursing, Concentration in Administration & Leadership
Queens University of Charlotte
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Appalachian State University
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