STEFANIE CASPERSEN
Montrose,USA
Summary
Bachelor’s-prepared Registered Nurse with over 20 years of clinical and leadership experience and 15+ years supporting EMR and clinical information systems. Deep expertise in inpatient and outpatient care, including critical care and perioperative settings, with a career focus on clinical workflow analysis, data integrity, and system performance evaluation. Demonstrated leadership in healthcare informatics initiatives that align clinical practice with digital tools, reporting, and decision support. Brings a clinician-informed perspective to AI research, model evaluation, and health technology assessment, ensuring solutions are clinically valid, safe, and operationally meaningful.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Informatics Lead
Montrose Regional Health
06.2025 - Current
- Evaluated and optimized clinical information systems by translating real-world workflows into structured data and functional requirements.
- Assessed EMR data quality, clinical documentation patterns, and workflow variability to support accurate reporting, decision support, and downstream analytics.
- Partnered with clinical leaders, IT teams, and end users to validate system performance against patient safety, quality, and operational goals.
- Led change management and adoption efforts for clinical technologies, ensuring tools were usable, trusted, and aligned with clinician behavior.
- Applied frontline clinical expertise to identify unintended consequences, bias risks, and safety gaps in digital tools and clinical decision support.
- Contributed to governance and standardization efforts supporting consistent data capture and reliable system evaluation across care settings.
RN Program Manager
Acalam Multispeciality Group/JPS Health Network
03.2015 - 08.2024
- Worked closely with Internal Medicine clinics, physicians, and leadership to facilitate program goals and improve patient outcomes.
- Coordinated with external facilities to accommodate patient needs not offered or out of network with patient insurance.
- Coordinates and oversees ongoing performance improvement processes related to respective department/project.
- Monitors program metrics, identifies benchmarks and establishes opportunities for improvement.
- Provides the organization with appropriate strategies for a successful program; participates in interdepartmental committees; and others as assigned.
- Serves as a clinical expert, resource, and support for the education of peers, staff members, and other health professionals.
- Develops and recommends protocols and policies for respective program and best practices.
- Assists with special projects across the JPS Network as assigned by leadership.
EMR Physician Liaison
JPS Health Network
- Guide, direct, and serve as a resource for a team of 35-37 RNs, LVNs, and support staff to ensure quality care to patients in an efficient manner in the clinic.
- Collaborate with 40 specialty providers and other departments.
- Oversee and resolve issues of clinic workflow, including EMR enhancements and developing desired EMR workflows.
- Coordinate orientation for new clinic staff members including unit-based and job-specific orientation and competencies, CBLs, preceptor training, expectations, etc.
- Develop weekly clinic staffing plans and request pool assistance.
- Manage schedule templates in EMR for 35-40 providers.
- Serve as SuperUser and resource for Epic EMR for both revenue cycle and clinical team members.
- Participate in Process Improvement and Clinic Improvement projects, including Conversion Readiness, Clean Sweeps/Unit Optimization, leadership meetings, etc.
- Provide and provide feedback for all staff.
- Conduct annual evaluation for clinical staff.
- Provide counseling and/or disciplinary action, assist in staffing, including; completing discharge instructions and documentation, assist providers with scheduling, admissions for patients.
CNO, Preop/PACU Director of Nurses
Perioperative Nurses, Inc
01.2005 - 01.2015
- Perioperative nurse in area surgical centers and hospitals.
- Managed pre-operative and post-operative care for patients.
- Provided education for patients and families.
- Collaborated with physicians and other departments to ensure quality care.
- Developed and implemented policies and procedures for nursing staff.
- Participated in quality improvement projects.
- Provided leadership and guidance to nursing staff.
- Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Functioned in leadership positions when necessary.
- Monitored and managed critical care and ventilated patients.
- Provided post-operative medications and education for the patient.
Education
Bachelor of Science-Nursing -
University of Texas
Associate in Arts - undefined
Tarrant County College
Fort Worth, TXSkills
- Critical Thinking
- Clinical Judgment
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Process improvements
Certification
LSSYB
Timeline
Informatics Lead
Montrose Regional Health
06.2025 - Current
RN Program Manager
Acalam Multispeciality Group/JPS Health Network
03.2015 - 08.2024
CNO, Preop/PACU Director of Nurses
Perioperative Nurses, Inc
01.2005 - 01.2015
EMR Physician Liaison
JPS Health Network
Associate in Arts - undefined
Tarrant County College
Bachelor of Science-Nursing -
University of Texas