Tiffany A. Linhardt
New Orleans
Summary
Motivated, energetic and caring bachelors prepared operating room nurse with 20 years of experience seeking a staff position in the surgical services arena where my professional, clinical, practical, and information technology experiences may be utilized.
Approximately 14 years of vast OR nursing experience in both circulating and scrubbing many surgical procedures in many surgical specialties. 1 year of PACU experience. 4 years of Endoscopy experience, including providing Conscious Sedation and monitoring those patients for 2 of those years. 6 years of experience as a Clinical Application Specialist for Surgical Services department. Responsible for data collection and analysis, build, training, implementation and ongoing maintenance and support for Cerner Surginet and supply module with bar code scanning. Certified in Epic Optime. Responsible for data collection and analysis, build, training, implementation and ongoing maintenance and support for Optime big bang implementation in May 2011. Consulting assignment in St. Louis, MO for 2 years with same health care system, building Optime and providing floor support for 7 different facility go-lives. Epic Optime consultant responsible for data collection and analysis, build, training, implementation and ongoing maintenance and support for Optime “big-bang” implementation for large multi-hospital, multi-state health care systems.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Travel Nurse – Operating Room
HealthFirst Holmes Regional Medical Center
Melbourne
03.2020 - 03.2020
- Contracted for a 13 week assignment with the option to extend, 12 hour shifts + call
- Covid-19 Outbreak: Contract canceled due to low census (essential cases only).
- Provided nursing care in Level II Trauma Intraoperative area with 22 OR Suites. Specialties included Orthopedics, Neurology (Spinal Fusions and Craniotomies), General, and laparoscopic surgeries.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center
Des Moines
10.2019 - 01.2020
- Provided nursing care in Level II Intraoperative area with 17 OR Suites. Specialties included Open Heart, Orthopedics (circulating and scrubbing), Vascular, General, Urology, Spinal Fusions, and Laparoscopic Surgeries.
Travel Nurse Contract RN – Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR)
Baycare Winter Haven Hospital
Winter Haven
07.2020 - 01.2020
- Circulating nurse for open heart bypass procedures, heart valve replacements, and repairs, carotid endarterectomies, thoracic lung procedures, pacemakers, epicardial lead replacements, and TEE procedures.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Cuyuna Regional Medical Center
Crosby
03.2018 - 09.2019
- Provide nursing care in Intraoperative, and Endoscopy areas.
- Responsible for managing and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for patients undergoing surgical procedures in hospital operating room with 7 OR and 2 Endoscopy Suites.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Lakewood Health System
Staples
02.2014 - 02.2018
- Provide nursing care in Preoperative, Intraoperative, PACU, Phase II recovery, and Endoscopy areas.
- OR: Responsible for managing and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for patients undergoing surgical procedures in hospital operating room with 3 OR suites.
- Responsible for assisting surgeons in surgical procedures when necessary.
- Pre-Op and Phase II Recovery: Responsible for preparing patients for surgical procedures in preoperative area. Responsible for ensuring a safe environment of care and continuous assessment of the patient.
- PACU: Responsible for ensuring a safe environment of care and continuous assessment of the patient in the acute post-operative and anesthesia phase. Accountable to other departments to ensure continuity of care.
- Endoscopy: Responsible for managing and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for patients undergoing Endoscopy procedures. Provide conscious sedation, including monitoring and documentation for those patients.
- Maintain, review, monitor and edit Intraoperative and Endoscopy logs in Optime to ensure most accurate documentation and charges. I then send on to billing and coding to be processed.
- Create, maintain and edit intraoperative and endoscopy preference cards for OR and Endoscopy departments.
- Management of OR procedures in Epic.
- End user of Epic Preoperative, Intra-operative, post anesthesia, and Endoscopy documentation.
Epic Optime/Anesthesia Clinical Applications Specialist (Travel Consultant)
Health Data Specialists, LLC
Luling
01.2012 - 12.2014
- Provide build and maintenance of ORP's, CPT codes, and authorizations. Mapped and built thousands of preference cards for six hospitals.
- Worked with regional, system and Epic team for optimum EMR implementation.
- Provided floor support for 4 of the 6 sites involving all surgical service areas - Intraop, Pre-Op, PACU, Anesthesia in Pre-Op, Intra-Op and PACU, Endo, Cath Lab, scheduling, and billing.
Perioperative Staff Nurse/Clinical Application Specialist for Surgical Services Department
Brainerd Lakes Health
Brainerd
03.2006 - 12.2011
- Responsible for managing and maintaining a safe and comfortable environment for patients undergoing surgical procedures at hospital operating room with 7 OR suites.
- Experience in circulating the following specialties: General, Urology, Gyn, Oral/Dental, Robotics, and Orthopedics.
- Casual status but averaged about 2 days per week on days off from St. Gabriel’s.
- Assisted in the orientation of 3 new perioperative nurses to surgery department.
- Clinical Application Specialist Responsibilities: Responsible for build and implementation of EMR for Surgical Services department with a focus and commitment to patient safety and quality using joint commission and AORN standards.
- Build and implementation of surgery EMR includes scheduling, charging, pre-op, intra-op, and PACU documentation. Also includes build and implementation of surgical supply inventory, documentation and management for more efficient perioperative suites and accurate supply maintenance.
- Responsible for data collection, analysis, build and maintenance of surgical procedures.
- Responsible for build and maintenance of surgical block schedule.
- Responsible for physician specific preference card build and maintenance.
- Responsible for conducting end user training and ongoing support to staff.
- Responsible for on-going maintenance of surgical information system.
- Responsible for Building and Implementing Optime at St Joseph’s Medical Center for both the Surgical and Endoscopy departments. I was responsible for providing floor support for the go-live. and continued to support surgeons, anesthesiologists, CRNA’s, OR staff, Pre-op, PACU, Endoscopy, pre-admission, as well as Optime scheduling and billing staff in both the surgery and Endoscopy areas.
- Experience in planning and supporting 3 other go lives. Essentia Health St Mary’s Duluth, Miller Dwan, and Essentia Health West. East and West go lives - Responsible for supporting Epic go-live in the OR, PACU, Pre-op, 24 Hour IP care unit, and Cath Lab recovery areas.
- Built and implemented Surginet (Cerner) along with 1 IT analyst for go live in February 2009.
- Responsibilities for Surginet were the same as responsibilities with Epic.
- I have proven that I am able to quickly adapt to change. I was in that role for 5 years, and in that time, I built and maintained 3 different electronic medical record systems, and 3 inventory control supply modules.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
St. Gabriel’s Hospital
Little Falls
02.2007 - 02.2008
- Circulating Nurse for a hospital Operating Room Suite with 3 Operating Rooms.
- Responsible for off- hour Call duties on average of once or twice a week for emergency surgeries.
- Responsible for administering conscious sedation and monitoring patients undergoing procedures such as Endoscopies, Colonoscopies, Pain Management injections, and minor surgical procedures.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
St. Cloud Hospital
St. Cloud
01.2006 - 01.2007
- Circulating nurse for Level II trauma center with 18 Operating Rooms. Responsibilities include circulating many different surgical specialties including but not limited to orthopedics, general surgery, GYN, Urology, ENT, Neurology, and Robotics.
Contract (Traveler) Circulator/Scrub Nurse Operating Room
Regions Hospital
St. Paul
05.2005 - 01.2006
- Operating Room nurse contract through Nursefinders agency.
- Circulating nurse at Level I trauma center with 15 operating rooms. Responsibilities include circulating a wide variety of surgical procedures including orthopedics, orthopedic trauma, general, plastics, GYN, Vascular, Urology, and ENT.
- Responsibilities also included mentoring and training new OR nurses.
- Responsible for scrubbing cases including general, Gyn, Urology, and Plastics procedures.
- Participated in data collection and process project as a clinical specialist for build and implementation of on-line medical record conversion to Epic system.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Woodwinds Hospital
Woodbury
04.2004 - 04.2005
- Circulating Nurse for 5 room operating suite specializing in orthopedic procedures including total joints, arthroscopic procedures, external fixator placements, spinal procedures, and many different orthopedic fractures.
- Also responsible for circulating a great deal of General (including laparoscopic), GYN, Urology, C-Sections, Plastics, and ENT procedures.
- Responsible for scrubbing some procedures including C-Sections, General (including Laparoscopic), GYN, and Urology.
- Involved in implementation of on-line medical record conversion to Surgical Information Systems (SIS).
Contract Operating Room Nurse Contract through Nursefinders Agency
Nursefinders Agency
Bloomington
01.2004 - 04.2004
- Regions and Woodwinds Hospitals.
- See above narratives for responsibilities.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Fairview University Medical Center
Minneapolis
01.2003 - 01.2004
- Circulating and scrub nurse for 23 room Operating Suite. Responsibilities include scrubbing and circulating kidney, pancreas and liver transplants, Colorectal, Oral, General, GYN Oncology, and Orthopedic procedures.
- Accomplishments at Fairview University Medical Center include completion of preceptor course and precepting new employees, attended AORN transplant conference, and was an active member on a surgical services process improvement committee.
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines
05.2000 - 12.2002
- Responsible for circulating and scrubbing a variety of surgical procedures for a Level I trauma center 16 Operating room suite. These procedures include c-sections, GYN, General, Urology, Kidney transplants, organ procurements, Vascular, thoracic, GYN laser, colorectal, plastics, and many laparoscopic procedures.
- Accomplishments at Iowa Methodist include completing a peri-operative 101 course, taking CNOR classes, precepting other employees as circulating and scrub nurse in many surgical specialties.
- Accomplishments also include scrubbing/assisting on 5 different organ procurement surgeries.
Education
Bachelor Degree of Science - Nursing
Grandview College
Des Moines, IA05.2000
Skills
- Adapt quickly to change
- Strong analytical skills
- Calm under stress
- Conflict resolution
- Proficient in Epic Optime
- Proficient in Cerner Surginet
- Calm and professional in critical incidents
- Develops rapport
- Sensitivity to diverse needs
- Reliability and responsibility
- Dedicated individual
- Team player
- Willing to learn
- Experience with Omnicell
- Experience with Pyxis
- Experience with Accudose
Certification
- Compact Multi-State Iowa Nursing License, #104987, 12/15/21
- IA DHS DS Child Abuse Mandatory Reporter Training, 11/01/22
- IA DHS DS Dependent Adult Abuse Mandatory Reporter Training, 10/31/22
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), 09/22
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS), 04/15/22
- NIHSS Stroke Certification, 03/10/20
- AORN Member, 09/30/21
- Intuitive Surgical da Vinci Proctor Training Certificate, 08/29/18
- Intuitive Surgical Basics of Electrosurgery Module, 08/29/18
- Advanced Illness Mgnt Strategies (AIM) Committee Member, 07/01/18, 09/20/19
- Certified Nurse of the Operating Room (CNOR), 2010-2015
- OpTime (Epic) Certification, 2010
- Epic Op-Time 2010 NVT, 10/01/11
- Epic 2012 NVT, 10/01/12
Licenses
Multi-State Compact Registered Nursing License, Iowa, #104978
Timeline
Travel Nurse Contract RN – Cardiovascular Operating Room (CVOR)
Baycare Winter Haven Hospital
07.2020 - 01.2020
Travel Nurse – Operating Room
HealthFirst Holmes Regional Medical Center
03.2020 - 03.2020
Perioperative Staff Nurse
MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center
10.2019 - 01.2020
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Cuyuna Regional Medical Center
03.2018 - 09.2019
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Lakewood Health System
02.2014 - 02.2018
Epic Optime/Anesthesia Clinical Applications Specialist (Travel Consultant)
Health Data Specialists, LLC
01.2012 - 12.2014
Perioperative Staff Nurse
St. Gabriel’s Hospital
02.2007 - 02.2008
Perioperative Staff Nurse/Clinical Application Specialist for Surgical Services Department
Brainerd Lakes Health
03.2006 - 12.2011
Perioperative Staff Nurse
St. Cloud Hospital
01.2006 - 01.2007
Contract (Traveler) Circulator/Scrub Nurse Operating Room
Regions Hospital
05.2005 - 01.2006
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Woodwinds Hospital
04.2004 - 04.2005
Contract Operating Room Nurse Contract through Nursefinders Agency
Nursefinders Agency
01.2004 - 04.2004
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Fairview University Medical Center
01.2003 - 01.2004
Perioperative Staff Nurse
Iowa Methodist Medical Center
05.2000 - 12.2002
Bachelor Degree of Science - Nursing
Grandview College