Experience

South Riverdale Community Health Centre

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Nurse Practitioner

  • Oct 2010 - Present

  Crisis Outreach Service to Seniors Program (COSS) • Provides expert nursing care in the community for vulnerable seniors in crisis with mental health and substance abuse issues• Short term case management for follow up, referrals to appropriate services and “warm hand offs” • Collaboration with other members of the health care team including providing assistance securing financial and housing help• Management of acute illness and exacerbation of chronic conditions• Develops and implements short term care plans for avoidance of emergency department visits when appropriate• Provides regular outreach services to drop-ins, rooming houses, and senior’s buildings WoodGreen Community Services - March 2013First Step to Home Program • Provides expert nursing care to 28 previously hard to house males over the age of 55 • Provides expert nursing care to any and all other clients using WoodGreen services



Sherbourne Health

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Health Bus Volunteer Nurse

  • Apr 2003 - Apr 2016

  • Provide nursing care to homeless / under-housed clients at scheduled stops• Develops and implements treatment plans collaboratively with clients• Provide relevant health teaching• Collaborates with staff to refer clients to appropriate resources at Sherbourne HC and in the community• Participates in regularly scheduled nurse’s meetings and education sessions • Provide input to program planning and evaluation activities as requested • Provide nursing care to homeless / under-housed clients at scheduled stops• Develops and implements treatment plans collaboratively with clients• Provide relevant health teaching• Collaborates with staff to refer clients to appropriate resources at Sherbourne HC and in the community• Participates in regularly scheduled nurse’s meetings and education sessions • Provide input to program planning and evaluation activities as requested



WoodGreen Community Services

• Nurse Practitioner

  • 2010 - 2012



St. Michael's Hospital

• Canada
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Decision Support Associate

  • Sep 1999 - May 2009

  • Applies clinical knowledge and experience, to resource utilization and hospital decision making• Accumulates, aggregates and analyses patient utilization, departmental, financial, workload and statistical data• Identifies opportunities for measurement of appropriate clinical and financial indicators for the hospital• Develops impact analysis and ongoing evaluation of new physicians• Leadership role in the benchmarking of clinical program activity. Facilitates the choosing of the appropriate benchmark institution and indicator and ensures timely and accurate assessment of data and the analysis.• Collaborates with other health care professionals on studies and extracting data for research use