Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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Objective
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Tiffany Gerrity

Westland,MI

Summary

Registered Nurse- MI # 4704186837 Basic Life Support (CPR)

Overview

35
35
years of professional experience

Work History

RN

Custom Hospice Home Care
01.2024 - Current
  • Providing specialized medical care focused on comfort and quality of life for a person with a terminal illness
  • Administering a wide variety of hospice medications for the patient.

Clinical Instructor and Nursing Skills Lab faculty

Schoolcraft College
01.2012 - Current
  • Teaching pediatrics in a pediatric hospital to 1st and 2nd year nursing students. Experience teaching pediatric theory content in a classroom setting
  • Taught NATP in lab and clinical. Previous experience teaching this theory content in the classroom setting
  • Nursing skills lab –teach and supervise 1st and 2nd year nurses’ students a variety of nursing skills throughout their courses.

Staff Nurse –Emergency Department

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2013 - 01.2017
  • Supervise/orient new RNs and nursing assistants to the Emergency Department
  • Delegated and supervised to nursing assistants in the ED (triage, trauma, exam rooms, and transfers from hospitals)

Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC) instructor

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2004 - 01.2017
  • Evidence-based content taught in a classroom setting and the Curriculum designed specifically for nurses
  • Instructor-led classroom discussions and skills stations. This education that was taught can be applied to every pediatric patient

Wayne County Community College
01.2012 - 01.2013
  • Taught 2 semesters of Pediatrics theory content in the classroom setting
  • Taught pediatrics in a pediatric hospital for the nursing students

Clinical Transformation Specialist – Ambulatory

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2005 - 01.2011
  • Provides support for the coordination, integration, and analysis of clinical processes within the DMC Ambulatory areas.
  • Influence clinical information technology, process design, change management, and evidence to facilitate improvements in the patient care experience, quality, and financial and regulatory goals.

Nurse Educator- Ambulatory Clinics & Emergency Room

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2005 - 01.2011
  • Coordinates orientation and ongoing education for all ambulatory staff including medical assistants and nursing assistants
  • Assisted with the implementation of Electronic Medical Record EMR
  • Taught a wide variety of classes to RN, Advance Practice Nurses, PCA, and MA.

Staff Nurse –Emergency Department

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.1991 - 01.2005
  • Precepted new and experienced staff to the Emergency Department to a variety of procedures, policies, and equipment.
  • Trained new RN staff and nursing assistances to Triage, Trauma, Charge, and observation.

Education

Master’s degree - nursing/health service management

University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, MI
01.2008

Bachelor’s degree - nursing

Madonna University
Livonia, MI
01.1997

Associate Degree in Nursing - undefined

Henry Ford Community College
Dearborn, MI
01.1992

Skills

  • Basic life support
  • Clinical judgment
  • Compassion and empathy
  • Discharge planning
  • Quality improvement
  • Geriatric care
  • Health promotion
  • Community health
  • Pediatric advanced life support
  • Nursing informatics
  • Medication and IV administration
  • Direct patient care
  • Patient assessments
  • Team coordination
  • Patient education and counseling
  • Medication administration
  • Strong clinical judgment
  • Patient monitoring
  • Precepting
  • Patient care
  • Physical assessments
  • Staff supervision
  • Nursing staff leadership
  • Licensed RN

Affiliations

  • 2010 Cambridge Who’s Who Network
  • Emergency Room Association (ENA) Member
  • American Nurses Association and Michigan Nurses Association (ANA & MNA) Member

Objective

To obtain a career working as an instructor in an academic environment. To utilize my clinical expertise and facilitate the education process uses principles of education and adult learning in all educational activities.

Timeline

RN

Custom Hospice Home Care
01.2024 - Current

Staff Nurse –Emergency Department

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2013 - 01.2017

Clinical Instructor and Nursing Skills Lab faculty

Schoolcraft College
01.2012 - Current

Wayne County Community College
01.2012 - 01.2013

Clinical Transformation Specialist – Ambulatory

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2005 - 01.2011

Nurse Educator- Ambulatory Clinics & Emergency Room

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2005 - 01.2011

Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC) instructor

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.2004 - 01.2017

Staff Nurse –Emergency Department

Children’s Hospital of Michigan
01.1991 - 01.2005

Master’s degree - nursing/health service management

University of Detroit Mercy

Bachelor’s degree - nursing

Madonna University

Associate Degree in Nursing - undefined

Henry Ford Community College