Louisa Davis Sills

Experience

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  King City Nursing Home

  Oct 1981 - Jul 1982

  Treatment RN

  150 bed skill care facility.Proficiencies:Wound care treatments, foley catheter care, tube feedings, oral care, medications, documentation.

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  Portland Veterans Administration Medical Center

  Jul 1982 - Apr 2005

  --Proficiencies include: Instructor, Education Website Facilitator; ER Nursing Consortium Coordinator; Magnet Communication workgroup Chair; PATHWAYS Liaison for Nurses (A PVAMC nurse mentoring program); Oregon Nursing Leadership Consortium's Regional Nursing Clinical Placement Coordinator, PVAMC representative; Professional Practice Committee and Recruitment & Retention committees, Education representative; Scholarship Programs Coordinator: National Nursing Education Initiative (NNEI)/Employee Incentive Scholarship Program(EISP)/Veterans Administration Nursing Education for Employees Program(VANEEP); Tempo Course Coordinator (PVAMC’s learning management system); Undergraduate Student Nurse Clinical Placement Coordinator; WorkForce Development SubCommittee Co-chair; Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) 20 Career Counselor; Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) Virtual Learning Center lesson rater; VHA Veterans Educators Integrated Network Abstract Committee Chair, as well as, ongoing: educational needs assessments, education-related literature review, staff and student surveys and evaluations, and networking with community educators. Show less --Proficiencies include: effective professional relationships within the PVAMC Ambulatory Care department, medical center and other VA telephone triage programs; collegial relationships with professional and other healthcare-related professionals within the local community; systematic evaluation of current telephone triage practice; ongoing evaluation of the PVAMC Telephone Care program; telephone triage-related research and review of related literature; development and implementation of PVAMC Telephone Care guidelines; telephone triage consultant in clinical practice for PVAMC healthcare professionals. Show less --Proficiencies included: leadership and management of 18-20 nurses; financial analysis of nursing staff; statistical analysis; workload efficiency planning; development of clinic programs, guidelines, policies, and performance goals; strategic planning; interior/exterior customer satisfaction surveys; patient care coordination; interdisciplinary collaboration and continuing education; and mentoring and restructuring of telephone triage and consultation/advice.Researched, developed and implemented Laboratory Specimen Collection policy and procedure to provide for streamlined, informed, interdisciplinary structure and accountability.Developed Diabetes Management program to insure appropriate documentation, medical evaluation, interventions and follow-up through nursing exit interviews.Developed and implemented Smoking Cessation program to provide education, documentation, standardized prescription protocol and proactive telephone support and follow-up.Collaborated with interdisciplinary team to develop the Diabetes and the Lung Nodule Clinical Pathways.Developed PCSL goals of timeliness, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.Statistically analyzed provider/nurse/patient ratios; developed and implemented a workload efficiency plan to effectively decrease patient wait-times.Researched, developed and implemented PVAMC Telephone Care Call Acuity system to prioritize call urgency and reflect nursing workload. Show less --Proficiencies included: reviewing medical records and screening patients for transfer to the PVAMC Extended Care or Geriatric programs; procedure and program development; preparation of monthly data spreadsheets; time studies; JCAHO unit preparation team; liaison between medical staff and PVAMC Extended Care and Geriatric programs; home care visits; interdisciplinary team collaboration.Developed and implemented an inpatient-screening process for the PVAMC Geriatric program. Provided initial training for Geriatric fellows in assessing patients for appropriateness for the Geriatric program.Developed and implemented a record tracking process of all screened patients.Provided screening program education for social workers and rehabilitation staff.Researched, developed and implemented PVAMC Home Care Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE) precautions procedure and presented interdisciplinary education regarding the handling of patients with VRE in the outpatient setting.Developed and implemented documentation and tracking tools for Home Care JCAHO review.Admitted, evaluated, and treated patients in the home setting.Provided back-up coverage for Community Health coordinatorProvided back-up coverage for Contract Nursing Home coordinator Show less --Proficiencies included: providing optimum patient/staff ratios; procedure development; SWAN line insertion and removal assistance; monitoring and injection of conscious sedation; monitoring and interpreting telemetry; ACLS training; Code team member.Responsible for staffing and coordinating patient influx and outflow in the PVAMC MICU.Researched and developed Central Line Removal procedure and policy for nursing staff.Performed all technical aspects of critical care nursing as certified in ACLS.Chaired the Recruitment and Retention Nursing committee providing hospital-wide nursing recognition and awards. Show less --Proficiencies included: scheduling and staffing of nurses; workload data-gathering; budget analysis; staff performance evaluations; coordinated unit-based research and nursing rounds; clinical expertise in a wide spectrum of Medical-Surgical disciplines.Performed Diabetes Mellitus Needs Assessment; researched and developed comprehensive Diabetes competency program for staff nurses.Assisted with analysis of workload and nursing costs/patient care-day to streamline accurate patient acuity system and workload capture.Participated in Longitudinal Wound Care study demonstrating the most efficient and cost saving methods and materials for wound care management.Collaborated with OHSU School of Nursing to coordinate program of Critical Thinking rounds for staff nurses to provide nursing education and to develop nursing expertise based on actual case scenarios. Show less

  • Staff Educator

    Jan 2000 - Apr 2005

  • Telephone Advice Nurse

    Dec 1996 - Jan 2000

  • Patient Care Service Line Manager

    Jul 1995 - Dec 1996

  • Long Term Care and Extended Care Screener

    May 1994 - Jul 1995

  • Critical Care RN

    Jun 1992 - May 1994

  • Medical Surgical Staff RN and Unit Shift Leader/Charge Nurse

    Jul 1982 - Jun 1992
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  Kaiser Permanente

  Dec 2000 - Apr 2008

  Understanding and administering OFNHP and SEIU, Local 49 bargaining agreements, promoting Labor Management Partnership (LMP), efficient quality management and utilization of labor and non-labor resources, hiring, coaching and facilitating retention of qualified staff (70+/-), achieving compliance with HR, Ambulatory Nursing and/or RAN policies, promoting and supporting and facilitating development and education of work groups, regularly evaluating personnel using established performance indicators, supporting relationships with community educational programs, supporting diversity/creativity and an environment characterized by strong ethic of trust and cooperation, promoting effective and productive working partnerships between staff and inter-departments, supporting, participating in as well as the development of quality management programs, developing and implementing appropriate policies and procedures, understanding and implementation of strategies to satisfy member needs; forecasting and managing budget of approximately $4.5 million. Show less

  • Regional Manager

    Apr 2005 - Apr 2008

  • Advice Nurse

    Dec 2000 - Apr 2005
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  University of Portland

  May 2008 - now

  Understanding and teaching laboratory and clinical principles of the Fundamentals of Nursing. Development and implementation of the Adult Physiological Nursing course and clinical syllabi as lead faculty and clinical faculty in the teaching, facilitating, supervision, and training of Medical-Surgical clinical instructors and junior nursing students in the classroom and junior and senior nursing students on a Designated Education Unit (DEU). Development and implementation of the Senior Clinical Capstone Immersion course and clinical syllabi. Understanding, teaching, facilitating senior capstone students, clinical faculty, and the associated community preceptors. Assisting in laboratory simulation testing of junior and senior nursing students. Advising nursing students.Understanding, teaching and facilitating Nursing Theory and the development of nurse theorists. Show less

  • Retired Faculty

    Aug 2016 - now

  • Faculty

    May 2008 - Aug 2016