Shawn Richards

• Staff RN
• Circulate; General, Orthopedic, Pain Clinic, Dental and GI Lab
• Pre-Operative admissions, PACU, Discharge
• Conscious Sedation

• Provided quality perioperative care by closely monitoring patients throughout their surgical experience.
• Pre-operative admissions, PACU, Phase 2 Recovery & Discharge
• Circulate; Ortho, Podiatry, General, OB/GYN
• GI Lab

• Provide day to day operational support for Adult & Pediatric Neurosurgery. Planning, scheduling and coordination, determination of accuracy of scheduled procedures, procurement of supplies, equipment, & instrumentation.
• Serve as team lead to clinical staff within service line specialty.
• Function as primary circulating RN for adult, pediatric, and NICU patient population for cranial and spinal surgical patients.
• Coordinate staff education & in-services.
• Maintain surgeon preference cards.
• Participate in capitol budget planning.
• Assisted with implementation of protocol for infection prevention in cerebrospinal fluid shunts.
• Serve as Charge Nurse within Main OR as needed, including trauma response.

Established and oversaw day to day operations of a centralized corporate Appeals department from the ground up, supporting Memorial Hospital of South Bend and Elkhart General Hospital.

• Strategically planned goals to achieve operational goals and targets.
• Managed 6.2 FTE's while maintaining staff morale and professionalism.
• Supported Revenue Cycle and clinical teams with Revenue Cycle procedures and addressed issues as needed.

• Responsible for conducting post-payment charge integrity audits on hospital claims.
• Reviewed medical record documentation for compliance requirements and accuracy of information to ensure revenue integrity.
• Cross-trained in all aspects of Case Management and Utilization Review.
• Worked collaboratively with Risk Management Team to identify charges associated with hospital acquired adverse conditions.

• Worked full-time in this role from 1999-2008 and prn from 2008-2013
• Charge Nurse 2000-2008
• Circulator
• Temporarily covered Nurse Educator role until position permanently filled.
• Surgeon preference cards.
• Nursing Quality Department Chair, Magnet Representative, Code Blue Committee, Cerner Super-User.

• Delivered bed-side nursing care in the acute medical surgical setting.
• Served as Bridge Shift Coordinator full-time, performing all admissions, discharges, IV insertions, and assisting entire team of nurses on unit daily
• Served as Charge RN as needed.