Tammy Davis
Houston,TX
Summary
Highly skilled and detail oriented Registered Nurse with 20 + years of experience in multiple areas of healthcare including ER, ICU, Trauma, Burn, Cath Lab, Quality Management, Infection Prevention, Occupational/Employee Health, Educator and Hospital Disaster Preparedness. Primary goals are providing safe skilled nursing care, promoting employee safety and ensuring positive outcomes for patients and employees. Seeking to share skills and knowledge in new challenging position.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Regional Manager - Quality, Risk Management
PSN Affiliates - Legent Health
01.2023 - 09.2024
- Regional Manager for Quality, Risk Management, Infection Prevention and Employee Health.
- Provided guidance and support for 1 Hospital and 4 Ambulatory Surgical Centers across South Texas and Florida region.
- Established and maintained operational standards including policies and procedures for 5 locations across South Texas and Florida.
- Prepared facilities for all regulatory or state surveys and maintained survey readiness.
- Managed risk events and process improvements.
- Implemented infection prevention strategies and monitoring.
- Provided oversight of Quality team members at each facility.
- Streamlined and monitored quality programs to alleviate overdue compliance activities.
- Launched quality assurance practices for each phase of development for newly onboarded facilities.
- Promoted a culture of continuous improvement through ongoing process reviews, employee engagement initiatives, and open channels of communication.
- Provided regular coaching, training and performance feedback to staff members.
- Collaborated with executive leadership to establish long-term objectives, and align regional efforts with corporate goals.
- Increased patient satisfaction with timely resolution of escalated issues and proactive communication.
- Supervised facility level Quality, Infection Prevention and Employee Health team members at each facility to ensure proper reporting measures and processes were completed.
- Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
- Provided direct patient care in the Perioperative and Emergency Room areas frequently for short staffed facilities.
Director of Quality, Infection Prevention, Occupational Health Nurse
TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital
09.2014 - 01.2023
- Started as Emergency Department/Post-Surgical Unit Manager - Primary emergency room charge RN 24/7.
- Managed staff for 15 bed surgical inpatient unit and emergency department.
- Promoted to Director of Quality, Infection Prevention, Employee Health.
- Facilitated Joint Commission Surveys and maintained survey readiness.
- Provided complete oversight of all quality data reporting to CMS, OSHA, NSHN, HQR-Cart, Joint Commission, Risk Management, Workmen's Compensation and Corporate.
- Managed all aspects of Employee Health including employee onboarding, orientation, illnesses, injuries, vaccination logs, follow up documentation and reporting per OSHA guidelines.
- Managed all aspects of infection prevention including SSI surveillance and reporting, Infection Control Surveys, and Infection Control measures.
- Performed RN educator role for clinical staff through one on one training, group training and comprehensive annual skills fair events.
- Initiated COVID Task Force and acted as Task Force Coordinator during pandemic.
- Initiated a new Cardiac Cath Lab and acted as Cath Lab Coordinator - responsible for planning, opening and training cath lab nurses.
Chest Pain Unit/Cardiac Cath Lab Recovery (Pre/Post) RN
Houston Northwest Medical Center
02.2010 - 08.2014
- Started as contract staff, eventually hired as full time Chest Pain Unit RN.
- Acted as Charge RN and preceptor for fast paced chest pain unit and cardiac cath lab.
- Provided pre and post procedure care to patients undergoing various cardiac events including cath lab procedures, stress test, active chest pain, MI, echocardiograms, pacemaker/ICD insertions and electrophysiology studies.
Intensive Care Unit RN
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
02.2009 - 08.2010
- Temporary full time position.
- Provided nursing care to critically ill patients within the medical and surgical intensive care units.
CCU/CVICU/ICU/Emergency Department Float Pool RN
Memorial Hermann Health System the Medical Center
09.2004 - 08.2008
- Initially started on a 6-month contract in the Cardiac Care Unit/Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit.
- Transitioned into full time Float Pool RN staff.
- Provided care to critically ill or injured patients primarily within all Intensive Care Units including Trauma and Burn Units and Emergency Department.
Education
High School Diploma -
Calallen High School
Corpus Christi, TXAssociate of Applied Science - Nursing
Del Mar College
Corpus Christi, TXReferences
available upon request
Hobbies and Interests
- Travel
- Reading
- Water Sports
- Dancing
Training
- Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
- Pediatric Advance Life Support (PALS)
- National Incident Management Training (NIMS)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration Training (multi courses)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (EPI 101 & EPI 102)
Timeline
Regional Manager - Quality, Risk Management
PSN Affiliates - Legent Health
01.2023 - 09.2024
Director of Quality, Infection Prevention, Occupational Health Nurse
TOPS Surgical Specialty Hospital
09.2014 - 01.2023
Chest Pain Unit/Cardiac Cath Lab Recovery (Pre/Post) RN
Houston Northwest Medical Center
02.2010 - 08.2014
Intensive Care Unit RN
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
02.2009 - 08.2010
CCU/CVICU/ICU/Emergency Department Float Pool RN
Memorial Hermann Health System the Medical Center
09.2004 - 08.2008
High School Diploma -
Calallen High School
Associate of Applied Science - Nursing
Del Mar College
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