Tarsha Calhoun

Implementation and leverage technology platforms such as Titanium, Pieces, and electronic health records to support the student care network.
• Demonstrates the ability to perform physical assessments of patients to determine acuity level. Primary campus liaison to local health departments for matters involving infectious disease control.
• Collaborates with campus facilitates to incorporate monthly automated external defibrillator (AED) maintenance checks, to ensure machines are adequately working to maintain the AED warranty
• Ensures staff and programs work collaboratively with other Dallas College areas, faculty, and staff.
• Reads, interprets, and implements the State of Texas THECB statement regarding Bacterial Meningitis.
• Promote a safe environment for students to discuss their feelings and then, ultimately, help them develop strategies to deal with the events in their life.
• To provide a prevention-oriented health care model for basic, find cost-effective community health care resources and updates a referral list of health care professionals, clinics, and resources in our area, including specialty services such as Care - such as checking temperature, blood pressure and breathing, administering injections, cleaning and dressing wounds etc.
• Administer vaccinations i.e. Meningitis and flu etc.
• Stays informed of new trends and procedures that would enhance college health care delivery.
• To promote the health maintenance and well-being of students through health counseling, screenings, and health awareness activities; to include not only direct patient care but also teaching, counseling, and serving as a campus consultant on health-related matters.
• To provide leadership, strategic visioning, establishing strategic goals and objectives aligned with the College’s mission and goals for the Student Health Center.
• To oversee federal and state law compliance for all educational and medical entities: FERPA, HIPPA, TITLE IX, CLERY ACT., etc.
• Responsible for the day‐to‐day operation of the Health Center and provides direction and supervision to students and staff across multiple campuses. Responsible for administrative and management functions, by setting a clearly defined high quality and culturally competent care. Collaborates with staff and ISD Administrators to identify, develop and implement best practices for tracking health care needs. Ensures the Health Center is compliant with policy, legal, regulatory and licensing requirements.
• Interacts and provides direction to academic departments and staff members, as a consultant, in regard to health/medical issues or concerns. Collaborates with staff and ISD Administrators to identify, develop and implement best practices for tracking health care needs.
• To serve as the key point staff member/expert for any medical emergency on campus, i.e. a case of documented or presumed case of bacterial meningitis; serves as the medical liaison to the Emergency Operation Command Center for natural disasters/emergencies that may occur on campus.
• Completes required Dallas College Professional Development training hours per academic year.
• Performs other job duties as required.

• Manage a team of RNs and LPC
• Follows member throughout a 30-day program that starts at hospital admission and continues its oversight through transitions from the acute setting to all other settings, including nursing facility placement and private home, with the goal of reduced readmissions
• Ensures safe and appropriate transitions by collaborating with the hospital discharge planner, as well as collaborating as needed or at the request of the member with outpatient providers, facility staff, and family/support network
• Ensures member transitions to a setting with adequate caregiving and functional support, as well as medical and medication oversight as required
• Works with participating ancillary providers (LTSS/HCSS, DME), public agencies or other identified service providers to make sure necessary services and equipment are in place for a safe transition
• Coordinates care and reassesses member's needs
• Uses motivational interviewing and Molina clinical guideposts to educate, support and motivate change during member contacts
• Assesses for barriers to care, provides care coordination and assistance to member to address concerns
• Provided direct patient care, stabilized patients and determined next course of action
• Managed care from admission to discharge.

• Provide direct patient care on various medical surgical floors
• Admit and discharge patients ensuring he or she has the necessary information for cared at home and what to do in the event of an emergency
• Educate patients and/or family members during admission, throughout hospital stay, and discharge
• Administer medications using the 6 rights.

• Oversee the day to day operations of the clinic
• Supervise 9 employees
• Daily, Monthly, and Quarterly Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Reports
• Payroll Billing
• Evaluate employees
• Responsible for hiring and firing employees
• Ensure clinic remains ready for accreditation visits/surveys.

• Provide direct patient care on various medical surgical floors
• Admit and discharge patients ensuring he or she has the necessary information for cared at home and what to do in the event of an emergency
• Educate patients and/or family members during admission, throughout hospital stay, and discharge
• Administer medications using the 6 rights.

• Demonstrates and teaches patient care in the clinical units to nursing students and instructs students in principles and application of physical, biological, and psychological subjects related to nursing
• Supervises student nurses and demonstrates patient care in clinical units of hospital
• Evaluates student progress, grade care plans and review with students, and maintains records of students' clinical experience
• Cooperates with medical and nursing personnel in evaluating and improving teaching and nursing practices.

• Work from home
• Provide care instructions and education over the phone
• Assesses callers' needs and assists them with issues related to patients care
• Help people with a wide variety of presented health conditions
• Use computer technology to provide care instructions according to approved clinical guidelines
• Document all cases in the call management software system accurately and within Carenet policy
• Ability to multi-task; simultaneously thinks, talks, and types
• Utilize active listening skills in order to receive detailed information in an accurate manner
• Demonstrate good time management, organization, research, analytical, negotiation and interpersonal skills
• Direct and deliver results in support of our URAC and NCQA accreditations.

• Provide direct patient care to medical surgical patients on a 24 bed floor
• Assess patients and report any changes in condition to MD
• Administer medications using the 6 rights
• Educate patients and/or family members
• Precept new hire
• Electronic and paper charting/medical records.

• Provide direct patient care to chronically acutely ill patients (long term acute care patients)
• Type of patients includes ventilation dependent patients, respiratory insufficient patients, multiple complex disease patients, critical care patients, long term IV antibiotic patients, wound care patient, failure to thrive patients, dialysis patients, etc
• Administer medication using the 6 rights
• Assessment of patients and report to Medical Doctor any changes in patient's condition
• Assist with charging when needed
• Charge nurse duties include receiving report on all patients from outgoing charge nurse, assisting staff with caring for the patients, overseeing staff members, resolving any issues a patient or family may have, and being available to respond to any emergency situation
• Electronic and paper charting/medical records.

• Provided direct patient care to oncology, medical, surgical, and pain management patients on a 37 bed unit
• Assessment of patients and reported to MD any changes in patient's condition
• Administered medications
• Computer charting
• Provided education to the patients and family member(s).

• Provide direct patient care to trauma, plastic surgery, surgical, and medical patients on a 32 bed unit
• Admit and discharge patients ensuring he or she has the necessary information for cared at home and what to do in the event of an emergency
• Educate patients and/or family members during admission, throughout hospital stay, and discharge
• Administer medications using the 6 rights.

• Provided direct patient care to telemetry and oncology patients on a 24 bed ward
• Administered chemotherapy and monitored patients throughout treatment
• Provided education to patients at time of admission, throughout stay, and discharge
• Prepared daily staffing assignments
• Prepared staffing work schedule
• Collected and analyzed data for patients' fall and patients' pressure ulcers
• Preceptor for new hire staff registered nurses
• Preceptor for nursing students assigned to 4c south
• Conduct monthly staff meeting in the absence of the Nurse Manager
• Customer service liaison for the unit.

• Provided at home patient care, teaching, and dressing changes to patients
• Supervised the licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants visits monthly
• Admitted patients to the service, discharged patients from the service when no longer needed, and resumed their care after discharge from the hospital
• Set up, made weekly visits, and monitored telehealth patients.

• Prepared daily clinic assignments according to staffing levels
• Provided direct patient care to patients on a 40 bed Medical/Surgical Unit
• Provided patient teaching upon admission, during hospitalization, and upon discharge
• Preceptor for new hire staff registered nurses.