Patricia Johnston

Accomplished Nurse Navigator and Patient Placement Nursing Coordinator. Expert in patient advocacy and education, demonstrating leadership and clinical judgment. Fluent in Spanish and English, skilled in several medical applications. Excelled in optimizing patient care processes and mentoring staff, significantly enhancing patient satisfaction and care coordination. Experienced nursing professional bringing demonstrated clinical expertise, leadership skills and technical knowledge. Extensive background in working with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient care. Quality-driven and efficient with strong interpersonal abilities.

• Previous QORUS Lead Coordinator for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation, working to decrease ED admissions.
• Nominated and chosen to be the Program Lead for all ‘Fall’ risk Procedures and charged to supervise the ‘Fall’ risk committee, hospital wide, at St. Josephs.
• Previous member of the Safe Patient Handling Committee.
• Assisted in incident command during COVID, 2020-2021.
• Involved with COVID vaccine clinics.
• Previous member of Safety council for three years (council not active during COVID).
• Certified Medical-Surgical Nurse, 2011.
• Patient Flow LEAN project.
• Patient Schedule LEAN project.
• Super user for various clinical applications and medical equipment such EPIC, Alaris pumps, Sapphire epidural pumps, Hill-Rom call light system, etc.
• Key member in opening Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Denver including educating all of the staff on all new and updated equipment, different processes, orienting and touring staff to the new building.
• Versed in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Google docs, and other cloud based applications for shared files.