Kirty Lindgren, RN, BSN

Experience

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  Multicare Good Samaritan Hospital

  Jan 2006 - Mar 2013

  * Responsible for quality patient care, The Joint Commission and Washington State Department of Health regulatory compliance, patient and staff satisfaction, policy and procedure and financial budgets for cardiovascular lab, interventional radiology nursing team, IR/CVL admission-recovery unit and IV/PICC team. * Coordinated with Cardiac Careline in developing and implementing seamless, quality patient care system-wide to include Core Measures, product management, vendor contracts, supply ordering, local and national cardiac data registry results, as well as mortality and morbidity issues.* Partnered with Quality Management Department in preparing weekly chart reviews in response to MIDAS Electronic Quality Improvement memos with a focus on providing optimal patient safety. Voir moins * Promoted to Clinical Supervisor via consistently providing innovative processes and methodologies on safe, quality patient care during imaging and interventional radiology procedures.* Proactively collaborated with Director in developing and implementing the new IR/CVL admission-recovery unit to include safe patient care environments, policy and procedure, hiring and training of new staff. * Championed efforts in decreasing central line infections (CLABSI), and integrating cross-system IV therapy/central line policies. * Collaborated with staff and senior management to create transition plans for the new Mountain Tower to include patient safety, education, staffing, workflow, and increased communication and teamwork.* Recognized for department implementation of EPIC electronic medical record as well as Radiant Imaging software used in tandem with EPIC systems. Voir moins * Responsible for evaluation and assessment of patient conditions in emergency situations to include cardiac, STEMI, trauma, general medical, surgical, respiratory and sepsis.* Promoted to Charge Nurse to include responsibilities for overseeing staff assignments, incoming safe and appropriate patient placement, and team development.* Successfully implemented Emergency Department's Customer Service Taskforce Committee resulting in increased patient care and satisfaction.* Appointed Division Leader for Capital Campaign in charge of recruiting and motivating leaders in Emergency and Cardiac Services, raising $1.16M towards the new Good Samaritan Patient Care Tower. Voir moins

  • Manager, Cardiovascular Lab, Interventional Radiology, IR/CVL Admission-Recovery and PICC team

    Jan 2011 - Mar 2013

  • Clinical Nurse Supervisor

    Mar 2010 - Jan 2011

  • Registered Nurse, Interventional Radiology

    Jan 2009 - Mar 2010

  • Registered Nurse CEN Emergency Dept.,

    Jan 2006 - Mar 2010

  • Registered Nurse, Surgical Unit, 3 North, Night Shift

    Jan 2006 - Jan 2006
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  ECMStaffing- Emerald City Medical Staffing, Inc

  Jan 2008 - Nov 2009

  Agency Registered Nurse

  * Relied upon exceptional medical knowledge and communication skills to provide optimal, safe and appropriate patient care in local hospital emergency departments within the Puget Sound Region.

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  RealTime Lab

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Patient Navigation (Work from home)

  Combining all my amazing career talents: *Nursing *Leadership*Customer service *Sales*Marketing and advertising* Responsible for empowering patients with education regarding mold/mycotoxin exposure, human and environmental mycotoxin testing and choosing an experienced treating physician and environmental inspector.* Successfully built, fostered, and maintained a solid customer base through strategic networking and innovative public relations.* Acted as lead researcher for entire salesforce and healthcare provider database. * Presented complicated peer-reviewed, scientific research to patients in layman’s terms. * Recognized for building a strong RealTime Lab brand by utilizing strategic connections to include industry leaders and support groups.* Responsible for keeping patients, RealTime Lab, and physicians safe from litigation and HIPAA issues. Voir moins

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  Lindgren Nurse Consulting, LLC

  Jan 2016 - now

  Legal nurse consulting experience in over 300+ personal injury cases, 20+ medical negligence cases, 150+ CR35/defense medical exams and several toxic mold/toxic tort cases.Responsible for screening medico-legal cases for merit, assessing alleged damages and/or injuries and identifying factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages and/or injuries, assessing new and aggravated injures related to the incident versus pre-existing injuries, identifying missing records and missing treatment for injuries related to the incident, summarizing hundreds to thousands of pages of medical/billing records concisely for personal injury cases, preparing medical evidence for mediation/arbitration and in some cases attending to present this evidence, researching medical literature, and attending defense medical exams with clients. Voir moins

  • Owner

    Jan 2013 - now

  • Legal Nurse Consultant

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
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  State of Washington

  Jan 2021 - now

  Occupational Nurse Consultant