Highly skilled Registered Nurse with 20 plus years’ experience in direct patient care (medical surgical, home health, perioperative, post partum and telemetry, assisted living and skilled nursing home care). Also, 10 plus years’ experience in education, staff and curriculum development, with proven ability to initiate process and technological improvements. A highly collaborative team leader who inspires superior performance by developing, coaching and mentoring employees. Accomplishments include successful initial Surgical Technology program accreditation, Chair onsite Surgical Technology program accreditation visits, maintained above 88% attrition, graduation and placement of Surgical Technology students, organized and implemented Program Assessment Evaluation (PAE) tools to improve success rate of Certification exam results (52% to 80%),revised and implemented Surgical Technology curriculum to comply with the Core Curriculum from the Association of Surgical Technologist. Proficiently skilled in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, Blackboard, Illuminate live and e-instruction.

Clinical Nurse

• Highly skilled in demonstrating the ability to deliver excellent nursing care to assigned group of patients in health care settings (medical surgical, home health, case management, perioperative, post partum and telemetry, acute care setting and clinic).
• Effectively demonstrate the nursing process in delivery of health care ( assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating) to assigned group of patients

Nurse Educator

• Provide /supervise instruction for post-secondary education student in several allied health courses
• Develop curriculum and teach healthcare topics to unlicensed nursing students as well as practicing health care providers in the industry.
• Develop, implement and monitor a Quality Assurance program using accreditation standards
• Develop and manage on campus, online and clinical components of several allied health programs.
• Teach CPR and First aid training to allied health students

Occupational/Case management

• Manage a database of approximately 800 employees for annual health assessments
• Offer information, resources, etc. regarding prevention and illness in the workplace
• Manage all occupational exposures with immediate and follow up care as needed
• Enforce infection control procedures

Director of Health Services

• Manage/schedule Caregivers in delivery of care to geriatric population for 24/7 scheduling
• Provide curriculum/training to candidates for Certified Medication Aides (CMA)
• Mentor Caregivers and CMA employees in providing care to Residents
• Maintain assessments/evaluations of admissions to facility
• Develop/revise/update plan of care on all Residents