Tina L. Riffle
Cowen,WV
Summary
Quality-focused and efficiency-driven leader. Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Charge nurse
Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Division
08.2001 - Current
- Make assignments, ensure adequate staff all shift and for oncoming shift
- Ensure all work completed, work as patient advocate and handle any issues patients have with staff, work with doctors, assist with procedures, ensure adequate supplies needed and take care of any issues that arise during shift
- Provide direct patient care to patients, including experience with fresh post-op, vascular surgery and orthopedic patients, central lines, wound care, wound vacs, and dialysis care.
- Manage 10 staff on shift
- Coordinated nursing care on unit through staff assignments, assisting and rounding with physicians, monitoring patient orders, and communicating with ancillary departments
Staff Nurse/Director of Nursing/Risk Manager/Quality
Webster County Memorial Hospital
11.2000 - Current
- As Director of Clinical Operations and Quality monitor all clinical operations, make sure prepared for inspections, monitor all departments policies and manuals for updates, make sure all departments do quality reports as required in timely manner. 6 years Utilization experience. 20 years chart review experience.
- Monitored and evaluated nursing staff performance, providing feedback and guidance to support standards of care.
- Built and maintained positive working relationships with physicians and staff to support seamless healthcare operations.
- Oversaw and approved recruitment, hiring and orientation of new nursing staff.
- Evaluated work performance of 50 nursing personnel to determine wage increases and implement discipline.
- Established and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care..
- Spearheaded and implemented new projects to expand scope of engagement such as Population Health and Cardiac Rehabilitation
Staff/Charge Nurse
Summersville Memorial Hospital
02.1999 - 08.2001
- Worked as staff nurse providing direct patient care, took care of fresh post-op patients with wound vacs and anesthesia pumps
- Acted as charge nurse managed 10 staff when scheduled and ensured had adequate coverage, meds and supplies needed, drew blood and made sure staff had teamwork approach to duties to decrease amount of work based injuries and work well with other departments
- Also trained new hires and precepted nurses.
- Monitored patient reactions after administering medications and IV therapies
- Explained course of care and medication side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms
Staff Nurse
Raleigh General Hospital
06.1998 - 06.1999
- Staff Nurse providing medication administration and direct patient care.
- Performed various nursing interventions such as wound dressing, vital sign monitoring, and specimen collection
- Implemented medication and IV administration, catheter insertion, and airway management
Education
Bachelor Of Science - Nursing
The College of West Virginia
Beckley, WV05.1998
Skills
- Employee Performance
- Team Development and Management
- Staff Management
- Case Management
- Charting and Documenting
- Nurse and CNA Supervision
- Data Collection
- Quality Assurance Controls
- Recruitment
- Discharge Planning
- Issue Resolution
- InterQual Criteria
- Utilization Review
- Accurate Documentation
Accomplishments
- Hour basis, monitoring all charts to ensure completeness, monitoring er times and wait times, perform mock surveys, entering quality measure data to CMS and CART quarterly and state quality measures monthly, MIPS and Promoting Interoperability reporting, annual professional liability insurance applications, liaison for state inspectors, report potential lawsuits to liability insurance and provide documentation required with them, provider credentialing, ER provider schedule, backup person for infection control, employee health, utilization, and social services to name a few
- As charge nurse make sure have efficient number of staff working for next shift, make assignments for admissions and oncoming shifts, ensure have essential supplies needed to care for patients, and take care of any needs that arise including being advocate for patients and take care of any complaints
- Some committees I am active on include: Policy Committee, Product Committee, Activities Committee, Threat Preparedness, Safety, IQM, Managers, Medical Staff and Board of Trustees
- Also participate in Health Research Education and Trust Hospital Improvement Innovation Network, and American Society of Health Care Risk Management.
Additional Information
- I graduated from a nationally accredited Nursing Program and have a multiple state license.I have twenty-five years of nursing experience, nineteen of which has been as Director of Nursing, thirteen years as Director of Quality and eight years as Director of Risk Management. Over the years I have been a part of healthcare team caring for patients with most of it spent as a charge nurse managing staff. Some of my abilities include: Scheduling/hiring/firing of staff, payroll, budget, preparing reports, developing and implementing policies, supervising and coordinating nursing staff on a
Certification
Acls, pals and Bls
Compact Nursing license
Wv license good in multiple states
Timeline
Charge nurse
Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Division
08.2001 - Current
Staff Nurse/Director of Nursing/Risk Manager/Quality
Webster County Memorial Hospital
11.2000 - Current
Staff/Charge Nurse
Summersville Memorial Hospital
02.1999 - 08.2001
Staff Nurse
Raleigh General Hospital
06.1998 - 06.1999
Bachelor Of Science - Nursing
The College of West Virginia
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