Myla Humphrey
Nashville,TN
Summary
Talented Leader offering 12 years of leadership in critical care and perioperative environments including project management of newly implemented obstetrics operating room recovery department. Offers proven ability to demonstrate Joint Commission Survey compliance and accreditation standards. Provides strategic plans involving reduction of emergency room wait times. High impact mentorship for critical care nurses on providing high quality care to critical care patient populations. Responsible for building effective teams, and boosting hospital consumer survey scores. Committed to identifying and leveraging opportunities for growth. Trained in hemodynamic monitoring and certified in FEMA Crisis Management Response
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Interim Assistant Patient Care Manager
Stanford Health Care
09.2024 - Current
- Provide leadership for a 22 PreOp and 10 bed PACU, overseeing daily operations and ensuring the delivery of safe, patient-centered care.
- Develop and implement workflows to improve patient throughput and operational efficiency, reducing operating room start times.
- Directly manage and mentor a team of 32 nurses, technicians, and ancillary staff, fostering professional growth and high-performance culture.
- Ensure compliance with hospital policies, Joint Commission standards, and evidence-based nursing practices.
- Monitor key performance indicators including patient satisfaction, staff productivity, and clinical outcomes, driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with anesthesiologists, surgeons, and interdisciplinary teams to streamline preoperative
Charge Nurse Float ICU/Telemetry/Medical Surgical
St. Thomas West Hospital (Prolink Agency)
07.2023 - 09.2024
- Registered Nurse Float caring for Med-Surg, Telemetry patients, and ICU patients.
- Implement life saving interventions such ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, critical lab replacement, vasoactive drips.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
Critical Care Rapid Response Nurse
Northbay Medical Center
04.2023 - 02.2024
- Assess critically vulnerable patients on PCU Telemetry floors while determining escalation of care to higher.
- Assess trends, vitals, lab values of Med-Surg, Telemetry patients, and ICU patients.
- Implement life saving interventions such ventilator management, hemodynamic monitoring, critical lab replacement, vasoactive drips.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instructions.
- Managed quality care for patients with heart failure, end-stage renal disease and coronary artery disease.
- Monitored patient condition by interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.
- Oversaw delivery of care for patients on medical-surgical unit, providing direct care, delegating nursing assignments and supervising team comprised of nurses, LPNs, technicians, and unit clerks.
Assistant Nurse Manager
AMN Healthcare Kaiser
12.2022 - 03.2023
- Supervise Intensive Care, Telemetry, and Med-Surg units with 20 to 60 nurses and employees.
- Respond to all code blue emergencies and rapid responses
- Coordinate staffing assignments for 20 to 40 nursing personnel and ancillary staff in 12 hour period.
- Auditing charts for HAPI risks, hospital acquired infections, and patient falls.
- Monitor quality of service and utilization standards and assume specific responsibility for patients of Intensive Care Unit, Telemetry and Medical Surgical units.
- Ensure coordinated plans of treatment, patient focused care and cost effective utilization of services. Investigate and resolves patient/family member concerns regarding patient care.
- Develop and implements action plans to improve staff development.
Staff PACU Nurse
Hospital, Vanderbilt Medical Center, PACU
04.2021 - 12.2022
- Trauma Level: Level 1
- Types of Cases: Care for post-anesthesia surgical patients undergoing gender affirmation surgeries, breast reconstruction, liposuction, thrombectomies, appendectomies, mastectomies, Whipples, gunshot wounds, burn reconstruction at Level 1 Trauma Center.
- Administer oral and nasal airways with Physician direction.
- Recognize and treat life threatening emergencies such as laryngospasms, cardiac arrest, hemorrhaging, hypothermia, aspiration.
- Administer venipuncture and arterial line blood draws.
- Provide CVP, arterial line, and hemodynamic monitoring.
- Manage ETT ventilators, oral and nasal airways.
- Provide surgical wound changes, jackson pratt drain education and management.
Registered Nurse ICU/Registered Nurse ICU/PACU Registered Nurse
HealthTrust (Centennial Medical/ Tennova)
05.2014 - 11.2022
- ICU: Care for critically ill patients experiencing craniotomies, EVD management and setup, ICP monitoring, TPA administration, COVID-19 ventilator management.
- ICU: Manage arterial and central lines. Assist with daily proning, rapid response and rapid intubation. Daily administer and titration of Levophed, Dopamine, Insulin, Heparin,Fentanyl, Propofol, and Neosynephrine drips.
- PACU: Care for patients undergoing breast reconstruction, thrombectomies, appendectomies, mastectomies, hysterectomies, and various general surgeries.
- PACU: Recognize and treat life threatening emergencies such as laryngospasms, cardiac arrest, hemorrhaging, hypothermia, aspiration.
- PACU: Administer venipuncture and arterial line blood draws. Provide CVP, arterial line, and hemodynamic monitoring. Manage ETT ventilators, oral and nasal airways.
FEMA Crisis Nurse
Our Lady of Lourdes Lafayette
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Types of Cases: Assessed, evaluated, and cared for critically ill patients experiencing fresh craniotomies, EVD management and setup, ICP monitoring, seizure disorders.
- Perform EEG monitoring and neuro assessments for traumatic brain injuries as well as ischemic strokes requiring TPA administration.
- Cared for COVID-19 patients requiring respiratory management including nonrebreather mask, Bipap, and ventilator management. Assisted Critical Care Intensivists with Arterial line insertion, central line insertion, rapid intubation, daily proning. Reason for Leaving: End of Travel
FEMA ICU
University of Mississippi Hospital/ Merit Health
07.2021 - 09.2021
- Trauma Level: Level 1 University of Mississippi
- Types of Cases: FEMA ICU Disaster Responses Nurse caring for ICU COVID-19 Coronavirus patients experiencing ventilator dependency.
- Administered CRRT continuous renal replacement therapy.
- Frequent blood draws via arterial and central lines.
- Hemodynamic monitoring and interpretation.
- Rapid response team for Cardiac arrest emergencies.
Nurse Manager
East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital
05.2019 - 02.2020
- Project Manager for opening of Obstetrics Post-Anesthesia Care Unit.
- Monitored staff expenditures and decreased overtime cost by 80%. Implemented guidelines to decrease employee scheduling deficiencies.
- Coordinated with bed management on acuity levels and bed placement for patients exiting Post-Anesthesia care.
- Performed employee chart audits to meet hospital quality metrics.
- Engaged and participated in consults, patient care plan development and patient monitoring.
- Developed strategy to target nursing and patient satisfaction issues, improve response and patient care quality and suggest actionable improvements to promote hospital-wide quality and safety initiatives.
Charge Nurse
HealthTrust (Poinciana Medical Center)
01.2013 - 05.2014
- ICU Charge Nurse supervision 5 to 10 nurses in critical care environments.
Nurse Preceptor
Florida Hospital Orlando
09.2011 - 07.2013
- Advised a committee responsible for improving Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS) scores by 13% in a half of year timeframe.
- Completed 16 week Critical Care new nurse internship.
- Preceptor for new nurses after 1 year of critical care experience.
Legal Administrator
Tennessee Department Of Health And Human Services
04.2009 - 09.2011
- Resolved medicaid termination appeals and submitted for Attorney review.
- Calculated medicaid recipients' assets and federal deductions to determine further medicaid eligibility.
- Kept up-to-date on case progress by frequently reviewing records and reporting findings to clients.
- Prepared legal briefs outlining medicaid termination appeals for HIPAA confidentiality concerns.
- Researched medicaid statutes and applied applicable law to medication termination appeals.
- Investigated facts and law of cases, using pertinent statutes to determine appellate causes of action.
Education
J.D. - HealthCare Compliance Emphasis
Cleveland Marshall College of Law
Cleveland, Ohio07.2008
Associate of Science - Nursing
Tennessee State University
Nashville, TN05.2011
Bachelor of Arts - Music
Oakwood University
Huntsville, AL08.2004
Skills
- Successfully demonstrated full compliance of Joint Commission Survey Point-of-Care Testing at Stanford Healthcare
- Demonstrated expertise in policy implementation, documentation review to meet Joint Commission requirements
- Advised a committee responsible for improving
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS)
scores by 13% in a half of year timeframe - Fresh Tracheostomy management and care Ventilator Management CMV, SIMV, PEEP, CPAP
- CRRT, Ventilator Management, Artic Sun Hypothermia management, hemodynamic monitoring, vasoactive drip administration
- FEMA Crisis and Incident Management System Certified
- Demonstrate strategies to reduce costs and improve quality of care
- Strong Hemodynamic monitoring skills
- Relationship building and retention amongst nursing staff and interdisciplinary team
Certification
- CA RN 95060811 License - Expiration July 2025
- TN RN 1838378 License- Expiration June 2025
Timeline
Interim Assistant Patient Care Manager
Stanford Health Care
09.2024 - Current
Charge Nurse Float ICU/Telemetry/Medical Surgical
St. Thomas West Hospital (Prolink Agency)
07.2023 - 09.2024
Critical Care Rapid Response Nurse
Northbay Medical Center
04.2023 - 02.2024
Assistant Nurse Manager
AMN Healthcare Kaiser
12.2022 - 03.2023
FEMA Crisis Nurse
Our Lady of Lourdes Lafayette
01.2022 - 03.2022
FEMA ICU
University of Mississippi Hospital/ Merit Health
07.2021 - 09.2021
Staff PACU Nurse
Hospital, Vanderbilt Medical Center, PACU
04.2021 - 12.2022
Nurse Manager
East Los Angeles Doctors Hospital
05.2019 - 02.2020
Registered Nurse ICU/Registered Nurse ICU/PACU Registered Nurse
HealthTrust (Centennial Medical/ Tennova)
05.2014 - 11.2022
Charge Nurse
HealthTrust (Poinciana Medical Center)
01.2013 - 05.2014
Nurse Preceptor
Florida Hospital Orlando
09.2011 - 07.2013
Legal Administrator
Tennessee Department Of Health And Human Services
04.2009 - 09.2011
J.D. - HealthCare Compliance Emphasis
Cleveland Marshall College of Law
Associate of Science - Nursing
Tennessee State University
Bachelor of Arts - Music
Oakwood University
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