Ruth L. Wilsie

• Remote position with 40%-50% travel
• Mentored and trained nursing leadership teams, fostering professional development and improving staff engagement.
• Collaborated with clinical teams to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and best practices.
• Led multidisciplinary meetings to align goals across departments, ensuring cohesive service delivery.
• Developed high-performing teams by providing mentorship, guidance, and opportunities for professional growth.
• Prepare facilities and clinical staff for State and Joint Commission visits, in preparation for accreditation, certification, and recertification.
• Identify areas of improvement, both clinical and economic, and create actionable practice standards to achieve goals and objectives.
• Directed operational strategy to enhance patient care and recovery outcomes.
• Implemented evidence-based practices to optimize treatment programs and support services.
• Analyzed program performance metrics, identifying areas for improvement and implementing strategic initiatives.
• Developed training programs focused on enhancing staff competencies and promoting a culture of excellence.
• Enhanced team collaboration through regular communication, goal setting, and performance evaluations.
• Managed budgets effectively to ensure optimal use of resources while maintaining financial stability.
• Strengthened internal controls by reviewing existing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Leveraged data analytics insights for informed decision-making in critical areas such as sales forecasting, budgeting, or personnel management.
• Conduct Risk Mitigation and Environment of Care audits, prepare and present areas of opportunity for improvement and correction, monitor to ensure actionable items have been corrected.

• Corporate Director of Nursing overseeing 28 facilities in sixteen states. Remote position with 50% - 75% travel
• Led strategic initiatives to enhance operational efficiency across multiple behavioral health programs.
• Developed and implemented comprehensive policies to ensure regulatory compliance and improve service delivery.
• Mentored senior management team in best practices for program development and performance improvement.
• Provide leadership, guidance, training and operational support to nursing teams, Regional Nurse Administrators and Regional Directors of Nursing.
• Spearheaded the integration of innovative technologies to streamline workflows and enhance patient engagement.
• Identify and address process improvement needs at a regional and/or individual level by consistently partnering with nursing leadership.
• As corporate Infection Control Nurse developed standardized infection control policies and procedures, reviewed incident reports and reported to appropriate agencies in accordance with the local and state governance.
• Facilitated training sessions aimed at enhancing leadership capabilities within the organization's management staff.
• Develop initiatives to improve quality, reduce budgets, increase revenue, and reduce nursing turnover by 50%.
• Implemented industry best practices for risk management and compliance, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with corporate partners to open new facilities from the ground up, including hiring, training, coordination and setup of local and national vendor relations, and meeting with State regulators to ensure compliance.
• Optimized supply chain management to reduce lead times and improve inventory control, enhancing overall customer satisfaction levels.

Responsible for departmental goals, budget, staffing, equipment, and supplies.

• Staff hiring, training, reviews, competencies, chart audits, and scheduling.
• Accountable for patient satisfaction and experience, manage member complaints and risk management processes.
• Provided patient-centered care in fast-paced urgent care environment.
• Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to optimize patient outcomes and enhance care delivery.

• Clinical Supervisor for large multi-specialty outpatient clinic.
• Increased Nurse Care and Concern score from 44% to 100%. CEO recognition for achievement.
• Staff hiring, training, reviews, competencies, chart audits, and scheduling.
• Conduct monthly staff meetings, co-chair for UBT and collaborate and support all departments within the MOB.

• Responsible for staffing issues, bed placement, and coordinating patient care.
• Assist in coordination of rapid responses, patient transport, fetal demises, and surrogate legalities.

• Nursing Supervisor for two multi-specialty outpatient clinics.
• Responsible for implementing and supervising clinical practice and quality management standards, budgets, staff hiring, training, competencies, and development.

• Provide emergency medical care for patients ranging from newborn to the elderly in acute distress/trauma situations, while providing a caring and compassionate environment during high stress situations for patients and their families.

• Provided specialized acute and long-term nursing care to high-risk antepartum, postpartum, and critical care surgical patients.
• Unit educator for eclamptic seizure and post-partum hemorrhagic response drills and mock codes.