Vanessa Young

Experience

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  Royal Victoria Infirmary, Special Care Baby Unit, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  Jul 1996 - Oct 2006

  Senior Staff Nurse

  Responsible for taking charge of the NICU and co-ordinating nursing care on a daily basis providing effective deployment of available staff resources. Also experienced in performing staff evaluations and acting as preceptor for new and junior staff members. Other responsibilities and experience include:- Core team member of the Northern Region Neonatal Transport Team until December 2002. High standard of experience and care in transporting babies requiring ECMO, air transport and surgical treatment. - Member of the Northern Region Benchmarking and Neonatal Guidelines Group. Responsible for setting standards in benchmarking in neonatal stoma care for the Northern UK Region. Devised and implemented stoma care programme that remains in use on the NICU. Also involved in the creation and implementation of a collaboratively written neonatal tracheotomy pathway of care to be incorporated across the Newcastle Hospitals NHS Trust.- Expert nursing skills in caring for babies requiring various modes of ventilation including CMV and HFOV and also requiring Inhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy; critically ill neonates requiring a high level of nursing care including the administration of multiple medications, arterial and capillary blood sampling, blood product administration, and inotropic support. Show less

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  University Medical Center, Tucson

  Oct 2006 - Dec 2008

  Clinical Nurse Leader/ Assistant Nurse Manager NICU

  - Assistant Nurse Manager of 30-bed Level 3 NICU at a Magnet hospital caring for critically ill neonates with a wide range of needs and disorders including: cardiac and surgical anomalies, extreme prematurity, and various types of ventilation including HFOV and INO. - Expert nurse skills in stoma and tracheotomy care, IV starts and arterial blood draws.- Developed and implemented a skin and ostomy care group consisting of unit staff. Developed skin and stoma care pathways for the NICU in collaboration with Pediatric Ostomy Team. - Ensured various audits to comply with JCAHO requirements were performed and high standards were maintained. Responsible for payroll, maintaining staffing levels and effectively deploying available staff resources, issuing disciplines to staff, performing annual staff evaluations, and performing management duties in the absence of the Patient Care Manager. - Chair of unit based and hospital based Clinical Practice Committee. Committed to ensuring new products were trialed efficiently and appropriately. Maintained and developed hospital and unit policies and protocols in accordance with evidence-based practice guidelines. Show less

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  Boston Children's Hospital

  Feb 2009 - now

  Manager of the Newborn Medicine Clinical Research Program - Responsible for creation and ongoing development of the Clinical Research Program infrastructure, and facilitation of further research within the Division of Newborn Medicine.- Development of strategies and solutions to strengthen Operations, Research, Quality Improvement and Innovations within the Clinical Research Program. - Manager of research and regulatory oversight within the Division of Newborn Medicine. Responsible for direct supervision of research team staff, completion of all staff evaluations, hiring process of all program staff, staff disciplinary procedures and terminations.- Active recruitment and consenting of human subjects for clinical studies. Performing all clinical aspects of research protocols including data collection and sample collection. Also responsible for assisting principal investigators with protocol application, submission amendments, adverse events, and deviation reporting.- High level of clinical expertise in Phase I-IV clinical research trials. - Experienced in IND/IDE applications to the FDA. Show less - Manager of the Anesthesia Clinical Research Unit and the Pediatric Anesthesia Research Internship Program. Responsible for direct supervision of research team staff, completion of all staff evaluations, hiring process of all unit staff, and initiation of collaboration with surgical and medical interdisciplinary teams involved with multiple anesthesia protocols.- Actively recruit and consent human subjects for clinical studies. Perform all clinical and regulatory aspects of research protocols including data and sample collection, and all IRB documentation. Including acting as the National nurse researcher for an international multi-centre randomised FDA/NIH clinical trial. Responsibilities included training of staff in relation to study updates and CRF completion and submissions at eight US sub-site hospitals, as well as monitoring visits to all sub-sites. Show less

  • Clinical Research Program Manager

    Feb 2016 - now

  • Manager - Anesthesia Clinical Research Unit/Pediatric Anesthesia Research Internship Program Manager

    Feb 2009 - Feb 2016
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  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

  Jul 2011 - Jul 2022

  Per Diem Clinical Nurse II NICU

  Per Diem staff nurse on busy Level 3 NICU providing direct care for neonates with a wide range of disorders including extreme prematurity and post-surgical care. Expert nurse skills in dealing with a variety of complex patient needs.