Experience

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  Barnes-jewish hospital

  May 2001 - Oct 2004

  Resource nurse: acute care medicine

  Responsibilities included:Assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care to patients and families on an acute care medicine division of a large metropolitan academic hospital.Resource nurse responsible for supervising night shift staff, orienting new night shift staff including graduate nurses, performing chart audits, and member of the department's Unit Practice Committee.

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  Christian hospital and northwest healthcare

  Oct 2004 - Oct 2007

  Staff nurse: emergency department

  Responsibilities included:Assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care to patients and families in a busy community hospital's emergency department that served a diverse socioeconomic population.Worked closely with other nurses, physicians, first responders, chaplains, social workers, and other ancillary personnel.Member of the Christian Hospital Transformation Committee in which direct patient care staff was actively involved in creating a new patient care model.Resource Nurse. Acute Care Medicine Division 11-100. Show less

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  Barnes-jewish hospital

  Oct 2007 - Nov 2023

  · Actively mentored, supervised, and lead 10 direct patient care staff of registered professional nurses, respiratory therapists, and endoscopy technicians in a combined outpatient and inpatient pulmonary procedural unit of a large metropolitan academic hospital.· Continually created new education and training modules for patient care staff based on real-time educational needs. This included training hospital patient care transport training staff on proper in-hospital transportation of patients that have indwelling chest tubes.· Actively assisted BJC EPIC CIS staff in developing specific department workflows, procedure scheduling templates, charge entry, and documentation processes for the EPIC Electronic Health Record. Designated EPIC Staff Training Coordinator and EPIC Super User for the department. Member of the hospital’s EPIC Hyperspace Heroes Committee.· Worked with Clinical Operations Coordinator and hospital supply distribution leadership in creating a new department supply storage system that reduced supply costs by 10% from 12/2020 to 12/2022.· Lead patient care staff through hospital and organizational process changes as well as building staff resiliency due to the COVID-19 pandemic while simultaneously keeping labor, supply, and per-patient costs low.· Member of the hospital’s Sedation Safety Committee. Actively assisted with updating hospital-wide annual moderate sedation competencies. Show less ∙ Lead and developed nurses, clerical, other multidisciplinary teams in two separate outpatient resident staffed primary care and psychiatry clinics. Actively supervised and guided 130 internal medicine and psychiatric residents as well as a team of 50 direct patient care staff. Performed daily departmental leadership functions as directed by the Clinical Nurse Manager, Ambulatory Services Director, and respective Clinical Medical Directors. ∙ Assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated nursing care to patients and families who were uninsured or were primarily supported by government healthcare insurance programs. Focused care based on regional health care data. ∙ Coordinator of the Acute Care/Emergency Response Team for the Barnes-Jewish Center for Outpatient Health.∙ Developed new process improvements, including a streamlined e-prescription refill system, based on real time metrics. Show less

  • Assistant Nurse Manager

    Nov 2014 - Nov 2023

  • Assistant Clinical Nurse Manager

    Oct 2011 - Nov 2014

  • Staff Nurse: Digestive Disease Clinical Center, Interventional Pulmonology, Surgical Care Center

    Oct 2007 - Nov 2011
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  Siteman cancer center

  May 2023 - now

  Nurse coordinator

  · Actively assesses, prepares, implements, and evaluates comprehensive treatment and case management plans tailored to an oncology patient’s medical needs in collaboration with radiation therapists, medical physicists, endocrinologists, and radiation oncologists in a combined outpatient and inpatient radiation oncology treatment unit of a large academic hospital.· Focuses nursing care to patients diagnosed with thyroid carcinomas with an active caseload of 50-75 patients.· Continually develops and delivers oncological education and encouragement to patients, families, and caregivers about treatment plans to promote a positive understanding of care. Show less