Tara Helm

Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute- Float Pool

Shoals Wellness COVID Clinic

• Assessed educational needs of trainees and researched clinical instruction trends to develop educational curriculum and competency tools for clinical procedures.
• Organized short-term educational programs such as lectures and workshops to address specific clinical topics.
• Contributed educational and clinical expertise to help optimize training courses and boost student learning.
• Monitored progress of each student and provided formal evaluation upon completion of clinical placements.

Mentor, CPI Instructor, Unit Practice Council, customer service rounding, orienting new staff, audits, assist with admits and discharges and medication passes as needed, de-escalation response team, IDT meetings and working with dual diagnosis

Collect and extract data for research on various diseases to write a new computer program

Medical Disability Coordinator, HIPAA Compliance Officer, Completed Workers Comp forms, Provided Education and healthcare to over 1000 students, and new hire and yearly education to over 350 employees. Managed and provided oversight for the Wellness Clinic including medical department, mental health department, dental department, optometry department, substance abuse team and dieticians. Network and partnered with local agencies to contribute assistance for students in need and to run the POD community program. Opened a pharmacy with 100% compliance and experienced the highest increase in customer service satisfaction surveys in contracted facility. Updated and wrote Standard Operating Procedures including Bloodborne Pathogen Plan

Supervised staff and patients and provided direct patient care to adolescent mental health inpatients. After being promoted to the Behavioral/Mental Health Education position served pediatric and adult population and units. Onboarded new staff and provided continued competency training and direct patient care including assessments, med passes, treatment meetings. Responsibility of 170 staff members.

1 year on surgical and pediatric floor, 4 years working in the Float Pool including telemetry/ ICU/ Medical/ Postpartum/ Nursery and Pediatrics, 3 years on Postpartum and OB Surgical units. Also served as lead on the customer service committee and as a preceptor.

Nighttime Supervisor of building and worked and Medicare unit and Alzheimer’s unit.

Charge Nurse on Telemetry Unit and floated to other units as needed on occasion