Michelle Olivier

Mentor and support the surgical coordinators, staff scheduling/call, flow of the day with metrics, rounding on the team, surgeon check ins, vendor meetings, supply/equipment evaluations, in services, work with educator on unit needs, coordinate any new service lines/procedures, work in tandem with peri-anesthesia ANM and coordinator.

Generated and reviewed incident reports, including employee write-ups, actualizing appropriate corrective action plans to mitigate ongoing and potential situations. Fostered excellence by example by "setting pace" and being hands on mentor to clinical staff.

Scheduling and coordination of staffing and physician cases. Team lead for coordination of disposables, instrumentation and troubleshooting to support cases. Developing growth for surgical volume with patient and surgeon satisfaction. Decreased turnover times and worked on cost analysis to lower costs.

Charge nurse for General, EENT, Dental, and Robotic surgery. Responsible for new product requests, staffing and facility scheduler, ordering and supplies, staff education and competencies and staff evaluations. Responsible for work flow, audits, and patient rounding.

Level 2 trauma operating room with 23 rooms including a hybrid CV room. Experienced in all surgical specialties with minor scrub experience.

Surgery Center RN in Pain & Sedation, Podiatry, GI, Orthopedics (Sports and Hand), ENT, endoscopy and General Surgery.

Worked as a patient advocate and teacher in the Mother/Baby Unit and nominated for Daisy Award for exceptional nursing care. Worked as an OR circulator and OR charge nurse and relief charge in the operating room. As OR charge nurse worked on policies and procedures, preference cards, kronos, staffing, vendors, and staff education.

Circulate GI, GU, robotic, oncology, ENT, plastics, neurology, Ortho, Ortho Sports, thoracic, CV, burns, peds, trauma, and vascular surgeries.

Serve as a resource staff for nursing shortages and as preceptor for new employees. Worked overtime and as needed to help the needs of the hospital.

Serve as resource staff for nursing shortages and as preceptor for new employees. Assisted as Charge nurse for evening staff.

Served as team leader to thoracic surgery team. Set-up surgery schedule for thoracic surgery. Order instruments and supplies for surgical cases. Experience gained in thoracic and cardiovascular robotic surgery as a circulator and later as interim team leader. Learned all specialties of robotic surgery before becoming interim team lead.

Circulated GI, GU, robotic, oncology, ENT, plastics, neurology and vascular surgeries. In charge of ordering supplies for vascular surgery and assisted with the start of the GYN robotics program.