Shelby Kirby
Weatherford
Summary
Experienced leader with strong background in guiding teams, managing complex projects, and achieving strategic objectives. Excels in developing efficient processes, ensuring high standards, and aligning efforts with organizational goals. Known for collaborative approach and commitment to excellence.
Overview
1
1
Certification
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Transfer Center Nurse
Baylor Scott & White Health
05.2026 - Current
- Managed end-to-end logistics for internal, incoming, and outgoing transfers
- Facilitate and Coordinate transfers
- Execute EMTALA-compliant workflows
- Provide resources and liaise with physicians
- Triage high-volume, simultaneous transfer requests, utilizing critical thinking to prioritize high-acuity, time-sensitive emergencies
- Bridge communications among diverse interdisciplinary teams
- Maintain real-time, comprehensive clinical documentation
Registered Nurse – Acute Care
HCA Healthcare
09.2025 - 05.2026
- Provide education and support to patients and their families
- Develop care plans and coordinate healthcare professionals from interdisciplinary teams
- Assist patients/families in overcoming barriers to healthcare
- Provide resources and liaise with physicians
- Educate patients/families on conditions, treatments, side effects, and prescriptions
- Assess patients, triage, and perform clinical skills and tasks in clinic and on the floor
Registered Nurse – Acute Care
University of Utah
09.2024 - 09.2025
- Provide education and support to patients and their families
- Develop care plans and coordinate healthcare professionals from interdisciplinary teams
- Assist patients/families in overcoming barriers to healthcare
- Provide resources and liaise with physicians
- Educate patients/families on conditions, treatments, side effects, and prescriptions
- Assess patients, triage, and perform clinical skills and tasks in clinic and on the floor
Registered Nurse – Emergency Department
Intermountain Medical Center
04.2024 - 09.2024
- Improved patient outcomes by consistently providing high-quality emergency care and implementing evidence-based nursing practices.
- Efficiently triaging patients based on acuity levels and prioritizing urgent cases.
- Assess patients on admission and continuously throughout assignment
- Administration of medications and treatments
- Educated patients and caregivers on care instructions
- Collaboration with the patient and the healthcare team
- Efficiently triaging patients based on acuity levels and prioritizing urgent cases.
Registered Nurse - Blood & Marrow Transplant Emergency Department
LDS Hospital
11.2022 - 08.2023
- Manage the care of chronically ill patients being treated in an acute oncology unit
- Collaborative care with multifunctional teamwork for critically ill patients and appropriate demonstration of patient triage
- Recognizes the implementation of dosages, interactions, side effects, adverse effects, routes of administration of drugs as they apply to individual patients
- Administer chemotherapy and other infusion treatments to oncology patients, ensuring accurate dosing and adherence to protocols
- Provide emotional support and counseling to patients and their families, addressing their concerns and helping them cope with the challenges of cancer treatment
- Navigation of patients undergoing IEC therapy
- Administer medications, perform care, assess patients, documentation, and perform CAR T assessments
- Collaborates with physicians and advanced practice providers to ensure quality outcomes
- Coordinates efforts for treatment and promotes quality improvement and educational efforts
- Compiles data, tracks outcomes, and makes recommendations for process improvement
- Utilizes the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, and evaluation in all patient encounters
Registered Nurse - ACUTE CARE / TELE / PULM
University of Utah
07.2022 - 12.2022
- Managed care of chronically ill patients being treated in an acute unit
- Successful collaborative care with multi-functional teamwork for critically ill patients and appropriate demonstration of patient triage
- Demonstration of effective care to patients with complex co-morbidities
- Proficient management of multiple patients in the infusion center, outpatient clinic, and inpatient floor
- Received training regarding assessment, medication management, and central line care for critically ill patients
- Received training and successfully demonstrated appropriate and thorough documentation
Quality/Safety Manager
LDS Hospital
08.2021 - 11.2022
- Project management and implementation
- EMR Informatics and clinical coach
- Review of operations to maintain the hospital's accreditation and regulatory compliance
- Monitor and ensure compliance with federal and company specific policies and regulations
- Oversee implementation of clinical program initiatives
- Consultation for quality improvement
- Management of patient safety plan implementation
- Integration of quality improvement through multidisciplinary teams and governing boards
- Preparation and presentation of reports and audits for outcome review and safety
- Safety reporting to the FDA and immune effector cell therapy entities
Clinical Research Coordinator
Intermountain Medical Center, LDS Hospital
01.2018 - 08.2021
- Following patients and coordinating treatment on complex early phase interventional pharma trials
- Ensuring compliance with FDA regulations and policies
- Report and document safety events
- Participate in the preparation or review of documents exchanged with the institutional review board (IRB)
- Informed Consent, Enrollment, Collecting and processing biospecimens and labs, data Entry, documentation, and report management
Education
BSN - Nursing
Weber State University
Ogden, UT04.2023
ASN - Nursing
Salt Lake Community College
01.2022
BS - Molecular Biology
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT01.2019
BS - Anthropology, Health Emphasis, Human Integrative Biology minor
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT01.2017
Skills
- Clinical Skills and Knowledge
- Clinical documentation
- Healthcare ethics
- Care coordination
- Triage assessment
- Patient advocacy
- Data collection
- Complex Problem-solving
- Strong clinical judgment
- Data, technology, and informatics
Certification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Ultrasound Guided PICC/Midline Insertion- Infusion Therapy Institute and PICC Excellence
- Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses (ATCN)
- Trauma Nursing Core Course Certification (TNCC)
- Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course Certification (ENPC)
- Pre-Hospital Transport Life Support (PHTLS)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
- Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Chemotherapy/Immunotherapy
RESEARCH
- Shelby Kirby, “Outpatient Treatment and Monitoring following Administration of Anti- CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor therapy in B-Cell Lymphomas” ASTCT Tandem February 16, 2023
- Shelby Kirby, “Outpatient Treatment and Monitoring following Administration of Anti- CD19 Chimeric Antigen Receptor therapy in B-Cell Lymphomas” ASH Conference December 12, 2022
- Shelby Kirby, “GRaduating to ADult Care: Interim Results from a Comprehensive Program to Improve Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care” University of Utah Undergraduate Research Journal. Undergraduate Research Symposium April 9, 2019
- Shelby Kirby, “GRaduating to ADult Care (GRAD): A Comprehensive Program to Improve Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care for Adolescents with Type I Diabetes” Intermountain Healthcare Health Services Research Conference April 5, 2019
- Shelby Kirby, “Evaluating Protein Interactions with FliA in the Salmonella Flagellar Type-III Secretion System” University of Utah Undergraduate Research Journal. Undergraduate Research Symposium April 9, 2019
Timeline
Transfer Center Nurse
Baylor Scott & White Health
05.2026 - Current
Registered Nurse – Acute Care
HCA Healthcare
09.2025 - 05.2026
Registered Nurse – Acute Care
University of Utah
09.2024 - 09.2025
Registered Nurse – Emergency Department
Intermountain Medical Center
04.2024 - 09.2024
Registered Nurse - Blood & Marrow Transplant Emergency Department
LDS Hospital
11.2022 - 08.2023
Registered Nurse - ACUTE CARE / TELE / PULM
University of Utah
07.2022 - 12.2022
Quality/Safety Manager
LDS Hospital
08.2021 - 11.2022
Clinical Research Coordinator
Intermountain Medical Center, LDS Hospital
01.2018 - 08.2021
BS - Anthropology, Health Emphasis, Human Integrative Biology minor
University of Utah
BS - Molecular Biology
University of Utah
ASN - Nursing
Salt Lake Community College
BSN - Nursing
Weber State University