LT Rashmita Subedi, MPH, BSN

Experience

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  KATHMANDU NURSING COLLEGE

  Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

  Nurse Educator

  Planned lectures, conducted classes, and completed competency evaluation for Proficiency Certificate Level (PCL) nursing students on the course Community Health Nursing and Basic Epidemiology.

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  NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES

  Jun 2010 - Apr 2011

  Registered Nurse

  Bir Hospital is the oldest medical facility in Nepal, established as a central referral institution of Nepal's government. The Bir Hospital established NAMS as a center of excellence for higher education and medical services by enhancing teaching, learning, and research activities to regional, sub-regional, and zonal levels. It provided direct support and leadership in the areas of national health policy-making and health program implementation.1. Served as a Registered Nurse and Community Outreach Coordinator in a national hospital setting providing compassionate and holistic care to patients, researched evidence-based protocols, and increased interprofessional collaboration between providers, leading to positive clinical outcomes in a 50-bed medical-surgical unit.2. Conducted policy analysis, programmatic oversight, and technical assistance to worksites interested in implementing and promoting evidence-based interventions preventing various medical disease conditions, including infectious, cardiac, gastrointestinal diseases, and psychological conditions.3. Intervened with corrective treatment for acute and chronic medical conditions across a diverse patient population.4. Leveraged technology to complete clinical documentation and record maintenance to ensure accuracy and patient confidentiality. 5. Interviewed and provided counseling for individuals with chronic hypertension, diabetes, and heart diseases.6. Progressive policies to standardize culturally competent services in rural settings/outskirts of Kathmandu city.7. Developed communication materials and evaluation tools for infection prevention, emergency management, and blood donation programs. Show less

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  Liberty Language Services

  Jun 2015 - Jan 2020

  Medical Interpreter

  Provide advice and management assistance in overcoming barriers to health care access and use for populations with Limited English proficiency at multiple Johns Hopkins medical facilities; provide specific cultural and linguistic language translation support and oversight on material use; ensure availability of in-laguage resources for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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  LifeBridge Health

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2020

  Lead Critical Care Technician and Patient Experience Coach

  Served over 600 patients annually as the lead critical care technician and compassionate patient experience advocate, directly reporting to the Clinical Program Manager. The duties induced various aspects of preparation for the patient, the family/caregiver, and the health care team with effective communication methods.1. Ensured patient care quality and appropriateness met/exceeded organization standards and ensured all the services are compliant with state and federal, legal, and regulatory guidelines.2. Maintained quality of patient safety and infection prevention by actively participating in team committees that addressed falls prevention, improving skin integrity, reducing restraint utilization, nosocomial infection prevention, and maintaining daily living activities function and mobility. Used quality indicator reports as a source in guiding interdisciplinary team focus. Organized tracking and analysis of patient outcome data and promoted an outcome-focused approach to care planning.3. Established and led the interdepartmental Patient Care Experience Committee and served as a patient experience coach to implement a strategic vision of increasing patient satisfaction rate. Supervised a nursing staff of 45 and administrative staff of 20 with Press Ganey's Compassionate Connected Care Training to improve caregiver-patient communication and reduce patient suffering.4. Identified and processed advanced care for patients with multiple clinical information systems.Clinical Research:1. Promoted evidence-based interventions to manage neurological conditions, including epilepsy, Guillain-Barre syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and neurosurgical traumas. Triaged medical emergencies to improve the health outcomes of critical patients.2. Identified and processed advanced care for patients with multiple clinical information systems.3. Created a workflow process to track and keep multiple external stakeholder groups updated on progress and development. Show less

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  Association of State Public Health Nutritionists

  Aug 2019 - Jan 2020

  Public Health Advisor Health Equity

  The (ASPHN) runs a nationwide heart disease prevention program for the racial minority population by promoting health equity and diverse health workforce development. Redesigned heart disease prevention messages more culturally relevant for the African American population through the narrative health messaging technique. 1. Developed a narrative health message with a video of personal experiences obtained from the African American community members with heart disease on how they managed their heart disease, improved health through diet-based lifestyle, and prophylactic treatment. The video had a strong persuasive effect on the audiences, resulting in increased literacy on heart-healthy behavior.2. Led community needs assessments and drafted a literature review on the social determinants of health affecting the African American population's heart health, promoting health equity, and the program's cultural responsiveness. 3. Trained more than 500 nurses across 33 states, including Washington DC, on narrative health messaging through web-conferences. 4. Cultivated the narrative health messaging method as a primary health communication among the nurses, enhancing the program's credibility, increasing the target population's engagement and responsiveness, and expanding the program and services to more locations.5. Cleaned and consolidated large data sets using smart sheets, Microsoft Office suites, SPSS, and SAS, to provide accurate data analysis and program evaluation. Show less

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  Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2021

  Public Health Analyst

  The Office of Behavioral Health Equity (OBHE) is the only federal office with a primary mission to address the specific behavioral health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minority populations and to advise the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use on behavioral health for minority populations. Selected through a highly competitive process to intern in the OBHE. Provided direct support and leadership in areas of national policy and program implementation; data review and analysis; public health education; and workforce development. 1.Co-facilitated the inter-agency collaboration between the HHS Office of Minority Health (OMH) and OBHE to establish The Opioid Crisis and Racial/Ethnic Minority Populations, a learning community of approximately 200 professionals created to sustain the impact of an OMH webinar series.2.Developed a compendium of COVID-19 resources focused on the impact of COVID-19 on behavioral health care for racial and ethnic minority populations as a technical assistance resource for health care providers, program managers, and patient advocates. 3. Reviewed and edited two federal issue briefs published by SAMHSA on "The Opioid Crisis and the Black/African American Population: An Urgent Issue" and "The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic/Latino Population: An Urgent Issue.”4. Completed a comprehensive review and synthesis of the literature, federal data sets, and qualitative reports to develop a blog for OBHE, "Synthetic Opioids: Re-defining the Crisis for African Americans." 5. Developed content and identified data resources to inform the planning of the virtual roundtable on Black youth suicide, "Synthetic Opioids: Re-defining the Crisis for African Americans," convened jointly by OBHE/SAMHSA and the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH) for 1000 participants. Show less

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  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

  Mar 2021 - now

  Public Health Analyst

  PUBLIC HEALTH OUTREACH/LEADERSHIP: Collaborate with cross-functional team in support of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities through improvements in public awareness, education, prevention, and service delivery to minority communities. Deliver direct support and leadership in national policy and program implementation, data review and analysis, and public health education. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Project Officer for Advancing Health Literacy to Enhance Equitable Community Responses to COVID-19 (AHL), a $250 million demonstration grant for 73 awardees under the authority of 42 USC § 300u-6 (Section 1707 of the Public Health Service Act) and the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021.CROSS-TEAM COLLABORATION: Facilitate external collaboration between the OMH, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and AHA to mobilize HRSA funding of $14.5 million to provide TA to 350 health centers. The cooperative agreement aims to increase provider and clinician engagement in implementing evidence-based practices (e.g., advanced self-measured blood pressure (SMBP) technology). DATA ANALYSIS & REPORTING: Monitor and evaluate OMH funded programs by tracking applications (4DX and DPO tracker), success stories, activities, and challenges to inform future funding and policy decisions. Prepared reports in response to 2 congressional inquiries on:o AHL awardees serving the LatinX population.o Percentage of HRSA sponsored Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)s serving LatinX population. PROGRAM MANAGEMENT: Monitor the project's efficacy in reducing health risks with increased health care utilization plans. AHL and NHCI projects aim to promote awareness of significant health risks like COVID-19 and Hypertension among racial and ethnic minority populations. Provide constructive feedback on projects’ deliverables to improve the programs' relevance and effectiveness. Show less

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  Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service

  Jan 2024 - now

  Public Health Advisor/Health Service Officer