Experience

Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano
• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Nurse Manager II

  • 2014 - Present


Baylor University Medical Center

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Nurse Manager II

  • Jan 2005 - Sep 2014

  Effectively manages a 37 bed Surgical, Transplant, and Trauma ICU with a 15.9648 WHPPD, budgeted for 31 ADC and 99.82 FTEs. Merger of Surgical/Transplant with Trauma ICU October 2013.FY14 CPPD was under budget by 3%, MRS 100% and OT<3% of total salary.Patient population includes orthopedic injuries, head injuries, SAH, blunt and penetrating trauma, general surgery patients to include breast flaps, OMFS surgery, major abdominal surgeries, liver kidney, and pancreas transplants.Accountable for staff preparation, patient quality outcomes, patient satisfaction and innovative initiatives to support our Magnet journey for 3 successful designations. Accountable for staff preparation for 3 Primary Stroke Center Certification 1 day surveys. Facilitator of the BUMC Organ Donor Collaborative Committee which is responsible for monitoring conversion rates. We also honor donor families dedicating a Wall of Heroes and displaying their pictures on a public wall outside of the Trauma ICU.Performs purposeful rounding to ensure patient/family satisfaction. Currently working on Lean project to decrease length of transfer time from the patient bed assignment from ICU to next level of care to less than 85 minutes.Overall employee retention is 92.2% for FY14 with average years of nursing experience of 9 years.NDNQI RN satisfaction survey was completed in fall of 2014 with a 100% staff participation and Practice Environment Score of 3.23 exceeding the Magnet 75th percentile.Staff development for FY14 includes 2 ASPIRE projects, 1 TCU fellowship, 5 staff nurses in school for BSN and 6 staff nurses in school for MSN.Mentored new Nurse Manager and Supervisor leaders to assume their roles and be successful.Communicates with various departments to coordinate services, resolve operational issues and improve quality of patient care. Podium presentation on Organ Donor Conversion rate at Quality Summit in 2010.Recognized as Quality Manager of the Year 2011 by peers. Show less

• Nurse Manager, Trauma Department

  • Jan 2011 - Oct 2013

  Preparation and successful designation as a Level 1 Trauma Center by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).Managed and coordinated the daily operations of a Trauma Department. Staff included Trauma Nurse Clinicians, Trauma Registrar, Coders and a Trauma Psychologist.Worked with Trauma Medical Director to ensure optimization of care for the trauma patient to include process improvement, chart abstraction, coding, education and being involved in the Trauma Activation Response Team.Hired a Trauma Psychologist and developed this role with emphasis on research, injury prevention and clinical psychologist for trauma population and their families.Hired and mentored new Trauma Program Manager as a full time position as required by ACS. Show less

• Nurse Manager of Comprehensive Wound Care Center

  • Aug 2007 - Jan 2011

  Manage and coordinated the activities of inpatient and outpatient wound care Nursing to include enterostomal therapy, skin, wound care, and a multi chamber hyperbaric chamber.Combined the inpatient and outpatient nurses into one department to provide consistency of care to meet the patient’s wound care needs.The outpatient wound care center included not only a clinic but a multi chamber hyperbaric chamber for oxygen therapy (HBO) for patients that have had carbon monoxide poisoning, osteomyelitis, diabetic foot care, necrotizing fasciitis, etc.Developed and implemented a SWAT (Skin Wound Assessment Team) team in 2008. Provided an educational SWAT Academy to staff nurses from every nursing department to act as resources and become the skin expert in their department. We provided continuing education and the SWAT nurses conducted monthly skin audits. Reviewed, edited and integrated inpatient and outpatient Policies and Procedures.Received HBO recognition by UHMS (Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society) for patient care and facility safety.Developed Nurse Practitioner role for wound care as a full time position which included management of Wound Care Center staff. .Supervisor, Surgical Neuro Trauma ICU Show less

• Nurse Supervisor

  • Jun 1991 - Jan 2005

  Supervised the daily operations of a 19 bed Surgical, Neuro, Trauma ICU.Responsible for staff development of 23 employees.Organized education and orientation for all new employees.Supervised the opening and operation of an Intermediate Care Area.Acted as charge nurse and participated in direct patient care.Accountable and responsible for projects as delegated by management team.

• Clinical Nurse III

  • Jun 1987 - Jun 1991

  Identified and intervened potential and actual life threatening situations utilizing invasive and non-invasive monitoring for one to two critically ill patients.Problem solved bed control and participated in unit activities.Facilitated education and orientation for new graduate nurses and student nurses.