Melanie Foster , RN
Hendersonville,TN
Summary
Registered Nurse and Clinical Manager with leadership and organizational skills of 25 years in various clinical settings seeking to provide quality and safe patient care with exceptional clinical team. Extensive experiences in hospitalized Acute Care, Outpatient Clinic and Case Management (with emphasis in Pediatric Diabetes and Epilepsy disorders) and Home Health and Private Duty Care.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
RN Clinical Manager
Suncrest Home Health And Private Duty
11.2022 - Current
- Coordinate all aspects of individualized nursing care for home health/SNPDN patient from start of care throughout service meeting home health eligibility and ongoing insurance approvals in accordance to physician orders.
- Oversee and development of patient's Plan of Care for maximum positive outcomes including coordination with nursing, physicians, pharmacies, durable medical equipment providers and clinicians.
- Responsible for entering incident reports/occurrences into online Risk Management system.
- Schedule and prepare for service admission, transfers to/from inpatient hospitalization including documentation and resumption of care and discharge with individualized adjustments based on patient's changing needs.
- Provide direct individualized patient care and education on disease processes and medication instruction.
- Participate in Quality Improvement Program Initiatives for improved patient outcomes.
- Orient new nursing staff, contributing to a supportive work environment.
- Attend meet and greets for prospective patient clients with nursing staff comparability matches for optimal outcomes and satisfaction.
- Coaching current staff performance improvement, providing corrective feedback in low performance situations for safety and documentation improvement.
- Reviews clinician notes to ensure timely, complete, appropriate and accurate submission of documentation by field staff. Review and supervise any trend or adverse findings reporting to Executive Director.
RN School Nurse and Charge Nurse
Sumner County Schools
08.2015 - 10.2022
- Charge Nurse and School Nurse medical management for 650 students and staff.
- Multiple chronic conditions of varied acuities , mental health and crisis interventions. CN duties supporting 10 additional school nurses with problem solving and support, strong precepting, corrective documentation feedback.
- Training in emergency and disaster preparedness, including BLS, BLS Instructor and PALS certification.
- Primary Covid-19 building educator responsible for safe pandemic management and including contact tracing, rapid testing testing on site of teachers and vaccination administration.
Pediatric RN and Endocrine Specialist/Educator
Women And Children's Specialists At Centennial
08.2014 - 08.2015
- Nurse educator working with all endocrine patients for goal management and increasing compliances for health management
- Responsible all in clinic metabolic testing and managed clinic infusion room for IV fluids for patients at risk DKA
- Responsible for full run of clinic day as only RN including logging all medications, diabetes pump application, school diabetic orders
- Responsible for telephone triage all patient calls and lab results
Pediatric Nurse and Case Manager
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
01.1999 - 06.2014
- RN 3 with experience in pediatric hospitalized Acute Care, Outpatient Clinic and Case Management with specialty in Pediatric Diabetes and Endocrine and Epilepsy disorders.
- Responsible leader for JACHO preparedness as Magnet Champion.
- Chair of Acute Care Unit Board Chair for 2 years and Chair of Children's Hospital Nurse Staff Council for 1 year.
- Lead Project Auditor for Quality Improvement by conducting detailed documentation reviews with data to identify strengths and weaknesses of nurse documentation. Included in this project hospital wide handwashing campaign with Infectious Disease Chief resulting in 10% improvement hospital wide handwashing and infection reduction.
- Educator of hospital wide annual nurse competencies.
- EMU researcher measuring patient patient satisfaction and process improvement. Abstract published and poster presentation with data resulting in Outstanding Award at American Epilepsy Association Conference.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Bachelors of Science - Nursing
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN05.1999
Additional Information
- Tennessee Nursing License #123979
- BLS Certified
Timeline
RN Clinical Manager
Suncrest Home Health And Private Duty
11.2022 - Current
RN School Nurse and Charge Nurse
Sumner County Schools
08.2015 - 10.2022
Pediatric RN and Endocrine Specialist/Educator
Women And Children's Specialists At Centennial
08.2014 - 08.2015
Pediatric Nurse and Case Manager
Vanderbilt Children's Hospital
01.1999 - 06.2014
Bachelor of Science: Bachelors of Science - Nursing
Middle Tennessee State University