Clinical Nurse Educator

• Jul 2018 - Present

Nurse Educator

• Aug 2016 - Aug 2020

Critical Care Nurse- Progressive Care Unit

• Oct 2013 - Aug 2020

Lead the Education Committee by ensuring that patient education provided by the unit was up to date, easily understood by patients and family members. Educate discharging patients and families on new Pacemaker/Cardiac Devices, cardiac medications, and cardiac risk factors. Provide 1:1 teaching to family and patients on new tracheostomy care, respiratory distress, emergency techniques, an suctioning technique to prepare them to care for tracheostomy independently. Assessment of the ventilated patient to assure delivery of the prescribed treatment and patient response including tracheostomy care, and continuous and intermittent SpO2 monitoring.Responsible for recovering patient post cardiac catheterization, administering cardiac IV drips, and monitoring telemetry for cardiac changes.Perform Charge function by overseeing daily functioning of the unit, directing admission, general patient flow and maintain professional communication with multidisciplinary teams.Responsible for orienting new staff members and precepting students in their capstone portion of school.Design and initiate SBAR report handoff with a team to reduce report time and money saving on the unit. Show less

Highly Infectious Disease Team Member

• Sep 2014 - Jul 2018

Inform and educate patients and community on risk factors and prevention of highly infectious disease. Customize and modify infectious disease unit to meet the needs of staff, patients, and unit.Collaborate with Infectious Disease Team, Hospital Administration, Critical Care Managers, Physicians, and RNs to develop a plan, grants, and funding for initiating care and implementing proper safety precautions for a suspect Ebola patient or other highly infectious patient.Participate with a multidisciplinary team to provide care for a patient with a highly infectious disease.Lead competencies for HITeam and ancillary staff. Show less

Clinical Nurse Educator

• Jan 2017 - Jan 2018

Lead participant of pilot Clinical Nurse Educator Program collaborating with sales team to meet educational and clinical needs of medical professionals with goal to increase sales. Responsible for delivering approved branded and non-branded messaging to Nationally recognized Hospitals and Medical Centers; geography spanning over multiple states. Provides product and disease state education for medical professionals through 1:1 presentation, round table discussion, formal presentation, and exhibits. Leads discussions with KOL around safety, tolerability, efficacy, access, and the educational resources of client's products. Utilizes clinical experience to gain access and build relationships; continually growing assigned territory and generating new sales. Collaborates well with internal and external partners by frequent communication with counterparts, home office, and senior sales leadership. Participates in internal and external activities to develop innovative educational approaches and strengthen the CNE role. Show less

Neurology Nurse/Charge Nurse

• Mar 2012 - Feb 2015

Responsible for educating and caring for patients with various new neurological disease processes such as: strokes, migraines, seizures, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis. Administer and educate patients on new infusion related to new Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis. Educate patient and families on stroke diagnosis, prevention, blood thinner indications and discharge information, and risk factors. Participated in Stroke Rounds as a charge nurse and provide open communication between patients, nurses, and physicians. Supervised and precepted new nursing staff on the unit. Participant on the Unit Based Council to create new policies and change within the hospital Performed NIHH Stroke Scale Assessments hospital-wide during a stroke alert. Responsible for educating nursing staff on using the NIHH Stroke Assessment and implementing it on the their unit. Show less

Charge Nurse/Nurse

• Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

Counseled knee/hip replacement patients in course prior to surgery and during hospital stay. Educated patients on implanted device, pre-surgical exercises, post surgical exercise, medication therapy, pain control, follow-up appointments, and labs. Accountable for assigning and staffing a 36 bed surgical floor unit based on skill level of nurse, acuity of patients, and number of surgical admissions. Assigned new admissions to beds based on level of confusion, severity of health, and bed space available. Act as a surgical floor resource for questions, concerns, and assistance with nursing care while maintaining a 5-6 person patient load. Present at all code situations and rapid response calls that occur on the unit to provide assistance. Chair Unit Council meetings to set goals, empower surgical floor employees, and stimulate new ideas for the surgical unit. Implemented a unit wide quiet time for patients to rest document results regarding positive HCAHP scores. Show less

Substitute Teacher

• Aug 2010 - Nov 2010

Responsible for teaching and modeling good behavior for high school, middle school, and elementary students. Maintained a classroom conducive to learning by providing proper instruction and discipline. Responsible for teaching and modeling good behavior for high school, middle school, and elementary students. Maintained a classroom conducive to learning by providing proper instruction and discipline.