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Rachel Howeth

Oklahoma City,OK

Summary

Adaptable and experienced Registered Nurse leveraging 10 years in patient care, healthcare IT, and various leadership roles to effectively manage complex projects involving various service lines and often competing priorities. Collaborates effectively with multidisciplinary teams to accomplish dynamic initiatives and improves health systems and quality of care.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

NURSING INFORMATICS SPECIALIST

OU HEALTH
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Integrated decision support, clinical pathways and best practices into health information technology to enhance delivery of care and workflows.
  • Influenced care outcomes by implementing improvements and optimizing health information technology.
  • Served as liaison between end-users and health IT team.
  • Applied medical subject matter knowledge to improve IT systems and functions.

CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

OU HEALTH
05.2023 - 08.2023
  • Maintain effective working relationship with ED Director and ED Medical Director to facilitate daily operations of a Level I Emergency Department
  • Perform Quality audits and supplies staff feedback in a positive manner
  • Coordinates and assists with multi departmental process improvement initiatives to include throughput, patient safety, and Quality measures
  • Promote system wide career and development opportunities to staff members
  • Assist with coordination of staff meetings and in-services in addition to preparing and communication content
  • Assist with departmental staffing and timekeeping
  • Serve on several committees at the system and hospital level.

SENIOR IT ANALYST, ASAP

OCHIN
04.2022 - 06.2023
  • Design, build, and test Emergency Department EHR for three Critical Access Hospitals
  • Work with operational leaders to understand clinical and business objectives to coordinate application solutions to assist with meeting organizational goals
  • Coordinate meetings and workgroups with operational owners for discovery and workspace validation
  • Prepare and present application report outs to senior IT leadership for Go-Live Readiness assessments
  • Collaborate with other applications to develop strategies and solutions for integrated workflows.
  • Provided recommendations regarding new hardware and software to keep IT infrastructure up to date.

RN, HOUSE SUPERVISOR AND STAFF NURSE

INTEGRIS HEALTH
05.2010 - 10.2022
  • Serve as an Emergency Department registered nurse at INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center, serving as a lead nurse and nursing preceptor
  • Serve as an Administrative House Supervisor at INTEGRIS Health Edmond, handling all administrative functions in absence of Clinical Directors
  • Responsible for daily patient rounding, facility staffing, compliance, risk management, employee health, and quality improvement.
  • Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options.

IT ANALYST, ASAP

OU HEALTH
03.2020 - 04.2022
  • Design, build, and test Emergency Department EHR for a Level One Trauma Center, a pediatric specific ED, and 3 freestanding Urgent Care/EDs
  • Work with operational leaders to understand clinical and business objectives to coordinate application solutions to assist with meeting organizational goals
  • Coordinate meetings and workgroups with operational owners for discovery and workspace validation
  • Prepare and present application report outs to senior IT leadership for Go-Live Readiness assessments
  • Collaborate with other applications to develop strategies and solutions for integrated workflows.

CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

INTEGRIS HEALTH
10.2018 - 03.2020
  • Maintain effective working relationship with ED Director and ED Medical Director to facilitate daily operations of a Level III Emergency Department
  • Perform Quality audits and supplies staff feedback in a positive manner
  • Coordinates and assists with multi departmental process improvement initiatives to include throughput, patient safety, and Quality measures
  • Promote system wide career and development opportunities to staff members
  • Assist with coordination of staff meetings and in-services in addition to preparing and communication content
  • Assist with departmental staffing and timekeeping
  • Serve on several committees at the system and hospital level.

NURSING INFORMATICS SPECIALIST

INTEGRIS HEALTH
08.2017 - 04.2018
  • Integrated decision support, clinical pathways and best practices into health information technology to enhance delivery of care and workflows.
  • Influenced care outcomes by implementing improvements and optimizing health information technology.
  • Served as liaison between end-users and health IT team.
  • Applied medical subject matter knowledge to improve IT systems and functions.
  • Worked closely with subject matter experts to develop solutions and improvements for clinical systems.
  • Applied knowledge, data, information and workflow to develop evidence-based models for health information technology solutions.
  • Led, facilitated and attended focus groups and meetings to strategize workflow issues.

ASAP LEAD EHR ANALYST

INTEGRIS HEALTH
10.2014 - 08.2017
  • Coordinate a team of four to build, implement, and maintain the ED Electronic Medical Record, leading to successful adoption of a new EMR for seven (7) Emergency Departments
  • Collaborate with various IT team members and end users to complete projects and optimization requests
  • Collaborate with Subject Matter Experts to identify facility specific workflows to be incorporated into the EMR
  • Organize and lead clinical teams contributing to better integration of multiple care areas
  • Work collaboratively with Emergency Department Clinical and Medical Directors to optimize the EMR post go live
  • Offer EMR support and guidance during seven separate facility go-lives.

Education

MBA-HC -

SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY
01.2019

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY
Oklahoma City, OK
01.2014

Associate Degree in Nursing -

OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
01.2008

Skills

  • Information System Expertise
  • Quality Improvement
  • Metrics Analysis
  • Team Management
  • Verbal Communication
  • Decision-Making
  • Project Planning
  • Patient Care Delivery
  • Policy Development
  • Clinical Process Knowledge
  • Workflow Processes
  • Information Systems Improvements

Certification

  • Epic ASAP Certification – Versions 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
  • Epic ASAP Graduate Program - 2015
  • Epic Smartforms – Version 2020
  • Epic Nurse Triage Certifications – Version 2020
  • Epic IP Procedure Orders Certification- Version 2022
  • Data Courier Mover Badge – 2021
  • Core Analyst Badge – 2020
  • Epic Usability Badge - 2020
  • ACLS and BLS Certified
  • Human Factor Safety Training Trainer

Personal Information

Title: Registered Nurse (95238)

Timeline

NURSING INFORMATICS SPECIALIST

OU HEALTH
05.2023 - 08.2023

CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

OU HEALTH
05.2023 - 08.2023

SENIOR IT ANALYST, ASAP

OCHIN
04.2022 - 06.2023

IT ANALYST, ASAP

OU HEALTH
03.2020 - 04.2022

CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

INTEGRIS HEALTH
10.2018 - 03.2020

NURSING INFORMATICS SPECIALIST

INTEGRIS HEALTH
08.2017 - 04.2018

ASAP LEAD EHR ANALYST

INTEGRIS HEALTH
10.2014 - 08.2017

RN, HOUSE SUPERVISOR AND STAFF NURSE

INTEGRIS HEALTH
05.2010 - 10.2022

MBA-HC -

SOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY

Associate Degree in Nursing -

OKLAHOMA CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

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