Accomplished in project development and training, I spearheaded the anticoagulation program at UVM Porter Primary Care, demonstrating exceptional management and empathy. My tenure includes crafting training manuals adopted nationally and achieving the lowest infection rates, underscoring my commitment to safety and best practice. My leadership and advocacy skills, coupled with a compassionate approach, have consistently driven positive outcomes. I care about people and their quality of life.
Anticoagulation Coordinator of dual primary care facilities dosing all anticoagulation patients, maintaining homeostasis and balanced nutrition. I developed the program for transfer from provider to certified RNs and the training program. I have replaced myself at one unit with the training.
Triage calls covering patient care and concerns, review and educating patients on diagnostic results, labs and medications.
Triage RN for a large primary care clinic, serving VT and NY, approximately 4000 patients. Triage calls addressing patient concerns, prioritizing facilitation of care, prescription renewals, direct patient care with physical assessment, diagnostics and injections
Worked autonomously from my home office in VT and manage the medical care of claimants in VT and NH, including diagnostic implementation advocacy for early intervention, and best outcome. Corresponded with claimant and medical team, overseeing provider team goals, travel and attend appointments, and follow up with written medical reports of impacts, outcomes and cost effectiveness through medical release.
Oversee all patient standards of care daily, Quality Assurance reporting monthly, review staff adherence to standards of care, safe reports and implement plan weekly. Anemia management and reports weekly, RN schedule monthly, develop and oversee plans of care for all patients and meet with multidisciplinary team monthly. and initiate treatment on all patients as needed, Unit Practice Chair Person managing the agenda monthly team meetings of dialysis units, minutes and we formed best practice models for universal care. Infection Prevention Advocate, meeting monthly with the team for review, developing audits and implementing with staff with proven lower infection rates.
Acting Interim Supervisor: Covered for 8 months, while as Patient Care Coordinator, due to a personal leave of
my supervisor. Perform Patient Care duties as above and daily responsible for the facility, all department and operations, adherence of regulations and on call daily. We had a perfect score for the CMS onsite audit.
I achieved, Distinguished, the highest rating warded by the hospital on my evaluation as concurred by a hospital panel.
Dialysis RN located at the Mercy Hospital Acute inpatient, ICU and CCU dialysis. I worked autonomously, as I was the only nurse covering 24 hour weekends, and I delivered direct patient dialysis care in all hospital settings.
Fulltime mother at home during the week.
Maintained clinical primary care on 20 patients by phone and monthly clinic visits. Patient dialysis home training daily. Patients were able to demonstrate adequate knowledge of their care, confidence and sterile technique which attributed to our low infections rates by the national standards
Managed and coordinated all patient care and training in the largest dialysis home program on the east coast. Trained patients and staff. Managed staff and evaluations. I wrote the training manuals that were adopted nationally, transitioned the unit from paper to computer documentation, wrote policies and procedures, developed a hygiene exit site procedure, in serviced the hospitals and sub-acute units in the tri-state area which resulted in the lowest infection rate in the country. Quality Assurance meetings monthly with all providers and medical director.
Began as a LPN in large out patient hemodialysis inner city unit. Performed direct patient care, assessment and charge duties, of 3 shifts of 36 patients daily.
Direct Patient Care in Neurology/Neurosurgery, Urology, ENT and transferred to Acute and Incenter Dialysis.