Stacey Sole

Responsible for assessment, planning, coordination, implementation, and evaluation of injured/disabled workers involved in the medical case management process. Working to keep communication clear and open between all parties including but not limited to carriers, attorneys, medical care providers, employers, and employees. Closely monitoring the progress of the injured worker and report the results back to the employer and insurance carrier. This ensures appropriate and cost-effective healthcare services leading to a medically rehabilitated worker who is ready to return to an optimal level of work and functioning. Use clinical skills to help coordinate the worker's treatment plan while maximizing cost containment. Ensure the injured worker is well educated and understands their disability and the treatment plan established by the physician. Facilitate treatment in a timely manner between providers and the injured worker to ensure a safe return to work ideally full capacity.

Provide total care for premature and/or ill neonates. Assess and provide the appropriate level of care for infants immediately after birth. Prep neonates for surgery, provide intraoperative care, and postoperative care. Troubleshoot and maintain NICU equipment. Consult with parents/guardians on care and long-term health management for infants. Educate new parents/guardians on any and all topics possible from the start of their stay to the discharge to prepare them to take their infant home as safely as possible. Provide comfort measures and end of life care for the neonate and assist the family in any way they need to grieve their loss. Provide post-mortem care and assist the families in post-mortem care. Communicate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the neonates receive the best care possible.

Assist all students in the transition from classroom setting to clinical setting in a safe learning environment. Assess each students’ weaknesses and assign them patients that will help strengthen those weaknesses but also patients that will remind them of the strengths they have. Lead as an example to create and maintain respectful and professional relationships with the student nurses, the staff nurse, the physicians, and all that you may come into contact with. This can be challenging because sometimes you are at the hospital and unit you currently work on or one of the student’s hospitals and units that they currently work on. Oversee all patient care to guarantee the highest standard of care in the clinical environment and to be supportive of the student if need be. Those are also great times to think about ideas for teaching moments during the appropriate time. Organize post conferences for the students to debrief and talk about their day and things they saw or were able to do. This is also a great opportunity to go over teaching moments picked up throughout the day.

Brought over to this facility to build a new position called a Rover. Essentially worked between NICU, L&D, Newborn Nursery, and PICU (occasionally). Attend all deliveries that were not expected to go to NICU. Stay with the neonates for the first two hours of life to try and decrease the NICU admissions due to cold temperatures and low glucoses. Any neonatal codes that occurred I was to basically be the front runner due to me already being on the L&D floor. Same with crash c-sections, I would attend because I could get there the quickest and set up and of course had NICU experience. If the NICU was short staffed I could float to NICU and take a team. If Newborn Nursery were short staffed, I could float there and take a team. If PICU was short staffed and had patients 12mos and below I could float up there and take a team. The idea was to cross train to L&D but they decided that was too much. Essentially all the normal responsibilities. Ensure the neonate was maintaining their temperature, a normal full body assessment, heart and lungs sound appropriate, assist with feeding whether breastfeeding or bottle feeding. Basically, make sure for the first two hours everything on the neonate was as it should be. And once the two hours were up give report to the Newborn Nursery RN.

Provide total care for premature and/or ill neonates. Assess and provide the appropriate level of care for infants immediately after birth. Troubleshoot and maintain NICU equipment. Consult with parents/guardians on care and long-term health management for infants. Educate new parents/guardians on any and all topics possible from the start of their stay to the discharge to prepare them to take their infant home as safely as possible. Provide comfort measures and end of life care for the neonate and assist the family in any way they need to grieve their loss. Provide post-mortem care and assist the families in post-mortem care. Communicate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure the neonates receive the best care possible.