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SHAWNA HARDOBY

Woodstock,GA

Summary

Dynamic Clinical Staff Manager at Grady Health System with a proven track record in quality improvement and patient advocacy. Expert in regulatory compliance and performance evaluation, leading initiatives that enhanced patient safety and satisfaction. Adept at effective communication and critical thinking, fostering professional development within nursing teams to achieve optimal care outcomes.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Clinical Staff Manager- Burn Unit

Grady Health System
Atlanta, Georgia
08.2024 - Current
  • Encouraged professional development among the nursing team by providing educational resources, such as in-services, town halls, and skills days.
  • Reviewed incident reports submitted by nurses, and identified causes of errors or incidents related to patient safety concerns.
  • Performed personnel interviewing, hiring, disciplinary actions and dismissals.
  • Conducted performance evaluations of nursing personnel to identify areas of improvement.
  • Participated in development, implementation and evaluation of action plans for continuous performance improvement.
  • Led initiatives to improve patient safety and quality of care, staying updated with the latest ICU practices and technologies.
  • Helped monitor, maintain, and improve nursing-sensitive indicators, core measures, HCAPS, and patient satisfaction.

Nursing Clinical Supervisor- PCCU

Northside Hospital Atlanta
Sandy Springs, Georgia
03.2024 - 08.2024
  • Ensured all documentation was completed according to established policies and procedures: post-op heart catheterizations, ablations, and cardiac drips. Actively participated in the quality metrics that led to The Joint Commission's Primary Heart Attack Center certification.
  • Ensured that all CMS core measures for cardiology were met before discharge for hypertension, heart failure, AMI, ischemic heart disease, coronary heart disease, and PCI, including angioplasty and stents.
  • Conducted daily patient and staff rounding, utilizing the iCare rounding tool, and presenting rounds at weekly WIGS meetings.

Nursing House Supervisor

Straub Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
10.2022 - 03.2024
  • Coordinating complex, emergent, time-sensitive inter-facility and inter-island patient transfers to Straub for higher level of care services: Cardiothoracic, ECMO, Neurosurgical, and all Burn patients. Booking emergent procedures and calling in the appropriate staff.
  • Responding to and participating in all facility and patient emergencies. Facilitating hospital operations and preparedness during local and regional disaster response efforts.
  • Acting as hospital administrator outside of regular business hours and determining matters that need to be reported to CNE/DON.
  • Facilitating interdepartmental patient throughput in coordinated efforts with emergency department, cath lab, endoscopy, operating room, interventional radiology, clinics, and inpatient units.
  • Managing the inpatient staffing resources ensuring the safe delivery of bedside care for patients while maintaining a safe working environment for staff.
  • Communicating with medical specialists, hospitalists, intensivists, nursing staff, case management, managers, and directors resulting in higher standards of patient care and increased efficiency.
  • Managing employees work related injuries and bloodborne pathogen exposure.

Charge Nurse- Burn Unit of Pacific and CCIU

Straub Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
08.2021 - 10.2022
  • Contributing towards Joint Commission accreditation compliance through regular audits, staff education and process improvement recommendations.
  • Coordinating nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments.
  • Facilitating ongoing education for nursing staff through in-service training sessions.
  • Participating in multidisciplinary rounds to develop individualized care plans for patients. Coordinating discharge planning to ensure seamless transitions of care.
  • Quickly responding to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations.
  • Performing frequent checks on life support equipment and made necessary adjustments to preserve optimal patient conditions.
  • Accessing and deaccessing ports, monitoring insertion dates and assessing indications for all invasive lines.

Registered Nurse- Burn Unit of Pacific

Straub Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
02.2017 - 08.2021
  • Treating burn patients including thermal, electrical, chemical, and inhalation injuries of varying degrees as well as patients with necrotizing fasciitis, bullous pemphigoid, TENS/SJS. Managing patients' status post skin flap and abdominal pocketing procedures and osseous drill holes.
  • Assessing burn wounds of varying depths in the acute phase. Cleansing and dressing burn wounds according to plastic surgeon specific orders, often using conscious sedation, and monitored the healing progress of patients' burns.
  • Assisting plastic surgeons with surgical dressing takedown while patients under MAC anesthesia.
  • Maintaining patients' comfort, assess pain levels, and assist in pain management.
  • Educating the patient and family in burn wound care, rehabilitation procedures, and provided emotional support.
  • Managing patients with Allografting, Autografting Biodegradable Temporizing Matrix (BTM) dressings, Integra and ReCell skin grafts.

Registered Nurse- Critical Care Intermediate Unit

Straub Medical Center
Honolulu, HI
02.2017 - 08.2021
  • Providing continuous monitoring and nursing care of assigned patients with potentially life threatening cardiopulmonary and neurovascular conditions.
  • Caring for patients in the preoperative and postoperative setting for various procedures: ablations, pacemaker implantation, interventional cardiology, CABG and valve replacement, TAVRs, pericardial drains, pericardial window, AAA repair, carotid endarterectomy, TEVAR, amputations, thoracotomies, pleurodesis, lung resections, Whipple's. Managed external pacemakers.
  • Administering and monitoring patient response to various intravenous drips including vasoactive, inotropic, and antiarrhythmics, insulin, hypertonic saline, heparin, and various blood products.
  • Assisting physicians with various bedside procedures including cardioversions, thoracentesis, paracentesis, chest tube removal, wound debridement, blood patch, and transcutaneous pacing.
  • Responding to all hospital code blues and code STEMI as timekeeper and recorder.
  • Managed patients requiring invasive mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy.

Registered Nurse

Florida Hospital Medical Center
Ormond Beach, FL
07.2015 - 07.2016
  • Improving patient outcomes by developing and implementing personalized rehabilitation care plans.
  • Promoting patient independence by teaching self-care techniques and providing adaptive equipment recommendations.
  • Maximizing patient recovery rates with targeted physical therapy exercises and mobility training.
  • Provided specialized rehabilitative care for patients with stroke, TBI, amputations, neurological disorders, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic surgeries, and multiple traumas.
  • Admissions nurse during high census periods following established policies and procedures.
  • Facilitating smooth transitions between acute care settings and home environments, coordinating necessary resources for continued progress in recovery.
  • Supporting patients' emotional well-being, providing compassionate listening during difficult times in their healing journey.
  • Ensured compliance with regulatory agencies such as The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
  • Managed the scheduling of personnel assignments based on patient acuity levels.
  • Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans for patients.
  • Ensured that all documentation was completed accurately according to established policies and procedures.
  • Responded quickly to emergent situations such as cardiac arrest or respiratory distress.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Capella University
Minneapolis, MN
10.2023

Associate of Science - Nursing

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, RI
12.2014

High School Diploma -

Miami Southridge Senior High School
Miami, FL
06.2006

MBA - MBA Healthcare Administration

Western Governors University
Salt Lake City, UT

Skills

  • Effective Communication
  • Emergency Response
  • Quality Improvement
  • Patient Advocacy
  • Time Management
  • Critical Thinking
  • Infection Control
  • Risk Management
  • Epic Systems
  • Policy Implementation
  • Stress Management
  • Delegation Skills
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Performance evaluation
  • Clinical leadership
  • Joint commission standards

Certification

  • American Association of Critical Care Nurses
  • American Burn Association
  • Basic Life Saving and First Aid, 2014, American Heart Association
  • Basic Life Saving Instructor, 2019, American Heart Association
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support Instructor, 2025, American Heart Association
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, 2015, American Heart Association
  • Advanced Burn Life Support, 2018, American Burn Association
  • Certified Burn Registered Nurse, 2025, Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support, 2019, American Heart Association
  • Progressive Care Certified Nurse, 2017, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
  • Trauma Nurse Core Course, 2018, Emergency Nurses Association

Engagement And Volunteerism

  • Active member for Burn Unit discharge committee, Burn Unit Hydrotherapy Committee, iPass Committee
  • Volunteer at the 2024 ReZoonion (Grady) Injury Prevention and Outreach Program
  • Attended 2024 National Burn Awareness Proclamation Signing
  • Member of the Burn Unit Quality Improvement Committee and Burn Survivor Support Committee (Straub)
  • Organized the first Annual Burn Survivor Event in Hawaii
  • Volunteered for Fight Burn Hawaii (2019) in conjunction with Honolulu Fire Department
  • Volunteered as Medical Team Captain at the Great Aloha Run (GAR) annually

Accomplishments

  • PSI Graduate; Basic and PSI 7
  • Nursing Leadership Program: Leading in the New World of Work; Rose Sherman
  • High Reliability Leader Skills Training
  • Creative Health Care Management: Re-Igniting the Spirit of Caring, Leading an Empowered Organization, See Me as a Person
  • Training in Prioritization and Capacity Management and Fundamentals of Leadership
  • Coordinated USGIV Training with BD for select Burn Unit Staff
  • Implemented hospital-wide quality improvement regarding fecal management systems
  • Specialized training in emerging infectious diseases
  • Implemented hospital wide code sepsis initiative
  • Formalized training as nurse preceptor
  • Interim Wound Ostomy Continence Care Nurse

Timeline

Clinical Staff Manager- Burn Unit

Grady Health System
08.2024 - Current

Nursing Clinical Supervisor- PCCU

Northside Hospital Atlanta
03.2024 - 08.2024

Nursing House Supervisor

Straub Medical Center
10.2022 - 03.2024

Charge Nurse- Burn Unit of Pacific and CCIU

Straub Medical Center
08.2021 - 10.2022

Registered Nurse- Burn Unit of Pacific

Straub Medical Center
02.2017 - 08.2021

Registered Nurse- Critical Care Intermediate Unit

Straub Medical Center
02.2017 - 08.2021

Registered Nurse

Florida Hospital Medical Center
07.2015 - 07.2016

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Capella University

Associate of Science - Nursing

Community College of Rhode Island

High School Diploma -

Miami Southridge Senior High School

MBA - MBA Healthcare Administration

Western Governors University

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