Rachelle VanDyke MS RN
Registered Nurse
Pekin,IL
Summary
Self-driven registered nurse with a master's degree in health services administration and extensive clinical experience in correctional health, cardiac care, ICU, home health, and hospice. Specializes in home health clinical management and discharge planning. Collaborates with multidisciplinary healthcare professionals across the continuum of care to ensure positive patient outcomes. Committed to providing compassionate individualized care and education, leveraging depth of knowledge and experience to facilitate cost-effective care management in a dynamic healthcare environment.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Corrections Nurse
Amergis
02.2022 - Current
- Effectively manage high-stress health care needs and concerns of individuals in custody.
- Provide skilled, timely and level-headed first response-emergency care to critically-ill inmates while adhering to strict safety protocols.
- Proficient and skilled in all areas of the health care unit: Health Care Infirmary, Emergency Code Nurse, Nurse Sick Call, Chronic Clinic, and Med-Line.
- Foster positive relationships with Correctional Officers and other facility staff to promote a collaborative approach to inmate healthcare.
- Conduct Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale (COWS) and Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment (CIWA) evaluations for individuals suffering from acute withdrawal.
- Complete thorough intake assessments on newly admitted inmates, identifying urgent medical needs, reconciling medications and initiating prompt interventions.
- Perform mental health evaluations when warranted and refer individuals to behavioral health specialist.
- Offer compassionate care to all individuals in custody, regardless of their backgrounds or circumstances, upholding ethical nursing standards at all times.
Clinical Manager
Unity Point Methodist
02.2017 - 11.2021
- Managed daily operations to support average daily census of 400 home health patients covering10 rural counties.
- Supervised multi-disciplinary team that provided more than 175 in-home visits per week.
- Promoted a culture of safety through redesign of the infection control program resulting in mandatory infection control training and on-site field proficiency to ensure compliance with hand hygiene and infection control procedures.
- Coordinated multidisciplinary team meetings to review patient treatment plans, evaluate visit frequency, and supply utilization. Compared cost of care and services to reimbursement. Strategized how to decrease cost for cases exceeding reimbursement.
- Conducted comprehensive audits of care plans and clinical documentation, identifying areas for quality improvement and to ensure skilled nursing and therapy documentation met medicare guidelines.
- Streamlined patient admission and discharge processes enhancing operational efficiency and improved patient and employee satisfaction though implementation of an admission team methodology.
- Improved staff morale and retention by meeting with team members to identify educational, career and personal goals. Fostered individualized personal and professional development.
- Established change and improvements in patient experience through home visits to identify opportunities to improve and enhance care and service. As a result, the team instituted a call before arrival pilot. This prompted an increase in patient satisfaction scores specific to "Timeliness of arrival."
- Spearheaded the agency's Medication Reconciliation PI project. The rigorous review of the reconciliation processes highlighted undetected gaps and inconsistencies in medication reconciliation process during the home health admission. New strategies were implemented to improve the reconciliation process.
- Achieved overall Manage Effectiveness score in the 95th percentile on the Your Voice Matters employee experience survey for 3 consecutive years.
Director
Graham Home Health and Hospice
06.2015 - 11.2017
- Operations oversight of hospital based Home Health and Hospice agencies.
- Successful IDPH and Joint Commission surveys within 4 months of hire.
- Implemented processes to comply with submission of Pre-Claim Review documentation to support skilled nursing and therapy services. Payment for services was suspended until proof of skill was received by Medicare intermediaries. Resulted in zero claim denials.
- Facilitated closure of agencies as directed by hospital board.
Education
Master of Science - Health Services Administration
University of St. Francis
Joliet, ILBachelor of Science - Nursing Science
University of St. Francis
Joliet, ILAssociate of Applied Science - Nursing Science
Illinois Central College
East Peoria, IL05.1990
Skills
- Clinical process knowledge
- Care Coordination
- Effective Communication
- Cost-reduction initiatives
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Chronic Disease Management
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Direct Patient Care
- Health Care Informatics
Certification
American Heart Association BLS
Timeline
Corrections Nurse
Amergis
02.2022 - Current
Clinical Manager
Unity Point Methodist
02.2017 - 11.2021
Director
Graham Home Health and Hospice
06.2015 - 11.2017
Master of Science - Health Services Administration
University of St. Francis
Bachelor of Science - Nursing Science
University of St. Francis
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing Science
Illinois Central College
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