Nurse leader with comprehensive clinical and operational expertise in trauma, telemetry, and wound care. Equips nursing teams with coaching and mentorship, drives quality improvement initiatives, and ensures effective resource allocation to maintain high standards of patient safety and care in diverse healthcare settings.
Provide operational and clinical leadership for a staff of forty RN, nursing assistive and support staff on a 28-bed high-acuity orthopedic and trauma unit as a night shift leader.
Coordinated staffing, patient flow, and resource allocation to ensure safe and effective care delivery.
Partners with physicians, case managers, nursing leadership, and supportive departments, as well as with patients and families to optimize patient outcomes and satisfaction.
Coached and mentored nursing and support staff, promoting adherence to organizational policies and evidence-based practices.
Demonstrates knowledge of job standards and key requirements for each staff position in assigned areas of responsibility, holding team members accountable for the responsibilities inherent to their positions.
Provides counseling and education for staff.
Provide support through staff by fulfilling needs of unit based on staffing and acuity.
Allocation of staff by budget, supply, and acuity based on best current standards and company policy.
Ensure staff maintain necessary competencies for their job functions along with unit educators.
Works independently after hours as Staff Leader.
House Nursing Supervisor- nights 160 bed
UC Health, Daniel Drake Center
09.2021 - 08.2023
Serve as the senior administrative leader for hospital operations during off-shift hours.
Coordinate staffing assignments across clinical departments for a 4-unit 160 bed hospital, based on patient acuity, census, budgetary considerations, and operational needs.
Collaborate with nursing leadership to implement staffing strategies, policy updates, and operational initiatives.
Provide coaching, counseling, and feedback to nursing personnel while promoting accountability and professional growth.
Ensure regulatory compliance, patient safety, quality standards throughout the organization.
Function as after-hours liaison for dietary, pharmacy, laboratory, central supply, and clinical operations for primary hospital, as well as long term facility attached and several private entities on premises.
Facilitate resolution of clinical, operations, and personnel issues to maintain uninterrupted patient care delivery.
Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to address patient care concerns, and patient throughput.
Act as the standing Stat nurse in the facility responding to all high acuity patients on site, leading code teams, and providing support and communication as needed with outside resources.
Registered Nurse – 3 Cardio-Pulmonary LTAC nights
UC Health, Daniel Drake Center
08.2020 - 09.2021
Managed high-acuity, ventilator-dependent, and unstable patients, ensuring continuous care and monitoring.
Assessed patients and collaborated with multidisciplinary team to enhance patient outcomes.
Ensured patient safety through sound judgment and strict adherence to guidelines and best practices.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Nursing -
Ohio University School of Nursing
Athens, OH
12-2025
Associate Degree in Nursing -
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Cincinnati, OH
05-2020
Associate - Environmental Engineering Technology
Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
Cincinnati, OH
12-2015
Skills
Clinical Supervision
Patient Care Coordination
Patient Throughput & Bed Management
Regulatory Compliance
Quality Improvement
Patient Safety Initiatives
Staffing & Workforce Management
Resource Allocation
Cost-Effective Care
Evidence-Based Practice
Employee Development & Coaching
Performance Management
Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Conflict Resolution
Professional License
Registered Nurse, Ohio Board of Nursing, Active and in Good Standing
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