Professional
PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
California
Inactive
RN 661343
Connecticut
ACTIVE
071524
New Jersey
ACTIVE
26NR20146100
New York
ACTIVE
556880
Tennessee
Inactive
RN 151593
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
Nursing Professional Development NPD-BC
August 2024
Certificate OASIS Specialist-Clinical COSC
October 2022
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETIONS
AHA | BLS ACLS, PALS Provider
November 2024
AHA | BLS ACLS, PALS Instructor
July 2023
WORK EXPERIENCE
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NYCHHC | Community Care – Nursing
New York, NY
Director of Nursing | Clinical Operations
Clinical Resource for Health Home:
- Responsible for assisting the Chief Nursing Officer in planning, integration, coordination, administration, and direction of operational activities in Community Care.
- Responsible for partnering with Community Care programs and operational leads to implement safe, effective, equitable, timely, and efficient patient-centered quality nursing services.
- Provide clinical expertise, leadership, education and consultation to Health Home, Home Health, and Care Transitions staff.
- Build positive and productive relationships across teams and will serve as a resource for the design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of patient safety, infection control, clinical education, and safe patient handling programs.
Clinical Resource for Health Home:
- Evaluates [clinical topic related] care plans by reviewing patient/family needs, promoting staff collaboration with other health care professionals.
- Promotes staff education and training of patient self-care, chronic disease management, illness prevention, health maintenance and health promotion strategies evaluates outcomes of self-care learning and maintains current reference material.
- Develops, implements, evaluates and revises staff education and training program related to the clinical aspects of care management by conducting learning need assessments and determining educational requirements for staff; introduces new skills, knowledge, and procedures based on current theory, research and standards of care.
Patient Safety Associate:
- Assists in the development, implementation, and monitoring of a comprehensive patient safety program; assists in the coordination of patient safety activities across the health care setting; promotes and fosters a culture of safety within the Community Care.
- Coordinates and manages patient safety data collection and submission, analyzes and summarizes data, prepares statistical and/or other appropriate reports; ensures completeness and timeliness of patient safety reported data; informs appropriate leadership of data findings.
- Prepares relevant reports to be presented at various committees. May provide recommendations for quality and risk management and reduction strategies and assist in the development of appropriate action plans.
- Acts as a liaison and serves as a resource to leadership and other health care setting staff on matters pertaining to events, activities, quality improvement initiatives and other relevant activities related to Patient Safety.
NYCHHC | COVID-19 Isolation Hotel Program
New York, NY
Site Director / Staff Development Lead / Clinical Manager
- Isolation Hotel Program Operations and Nursing Administrative Team Member; Clinical Manager for all nursing staff (RN, LPN, CNA)
- Operational planning and program implementation of five Isolation Hotel locations in Queens and Manhattan.
- Lead development and implementation of clinical standard work and clinical guidance for the nursing staff
- Lead site administration and clinical operations at Aloft LaGuardia Hotel – a 119 bed COVID-19 Isolation facility for COVID-19 and PUI patients.
- Data driven management of staffing changes, needs, issues, and challenges and provides effective solutions to ensure adequate staffing and scheduling for all hotel isolation sites.
- Team lead for onboarding, curriculum development, coordination, and implementation of staff orientation
- Coordination and instruction of COVID-19: Personal Protective Equipment staff training course, in collaboration with Dr. Syra Madad’s NYCHHC Special Pathogens division (Beginning of pandemic 2020)
- Clinical training course development and instruction including Infection Prevention, CPR/AED and LUCAS Device use, Nursing Workflow, Methadone Delivery process, Naloxone Administration specific to the program.
- Program liaison to NYCHHC Special Pathogens Division re: Infection Control & Prevention, Policies and Procedures, and other COVID-19 related guidance.
NYCHHC | Community Care – Workforce Development
New York, NY
Director of Nursing | Staff Education & Training
- Instructional design and curriculum development for Community Care education and training:
- Supports new hire staff and course instructors during General Orientation
- Creation, coordination and implementation of training courses, i.e. BLS Course, Infection Control & Prevention for Health Home staff, Preceptor Training, Effective Communication for Leaders, Incident Report Training
- Responsible for the clinical orientation of clinical and nursing staff; Providing documentation and clinical support; OASIS documentation audits
NYCHHC | Community Care – Workforce Development
Jersey City, NJ
System Educator – Med-Surg-Tele
- Responsible for curriculum development and instructional design of general and nursing orientation for medical, surgical, and telemetry specialties.
- Supervises medical, surgical, and telemetry facility educators.
- Coordinates system-wide annual clinical and safety education with emphasis on skills competency assessment.
- System administrator for Healthstream Competency Center and Healthstream Learning Center: Creates and assigns competency curriculums; creates and revises computer based learning modules
Covenant Health – Clinical Education and Quality
Knoxville, TN
Clinical Practice Specialist, Generalist & Critical Care Services
Covenant Health – a healthcare system in East Tennessee with 9 hospitals and other healthcare facilities
- 2018 to 2019: retained position as AHA Training Center consultant
- Training Center Administrator for Covenant Health: Responsible for managing AHA Training Sites, Training Site Coordinators, and Course Instructors; – Responsible for updating and implementing system-wide AHA training programs including AHA Instructor and Provider courses.
- System administrator for Healthstream Competency Center and Healthstream Learning Center: Creates and assigns competency curriculums; creates and revises computer based learning modules
- Responsible for instructional design and curriculum development of nursing professional development courses (i.e. Basic Rhythm Recognition Course and Pressure Injury Prevention Education Plan)
- Team lead for System Critical Care Team and education initiatives
- Leads and participates in various system-wide Quality, Regulatory, and Clinical Informatics committees
- Provides onboarding and orientation to new hire clinical staff including competency assignments, class scheduling, and assigning computer-based learning
- Assists in career-development of new and existing nurses by providing available resources for tuition re-imbursement and certification information
Covenant Health | FSMRC & MMC
Knoxville, TN
Education Coordinator – Nursing
- Responsible for creating an evidenced-based orientation and education program for the professional nursing staff and unlicensed assistive personnel.
- Ensures that staff are credentialed, and able to demonstrate current competencies and meet professional and nursing standards of practice in assigned areas.
- Actively leads and participates in multiple quality and process improvement initiatives in both facility and system-wide projects aimed to improve the quality of patient care
Tennova | Physicians Regional Med Center
Knoxville, TN
Patient Coordinator / Nursing Supervisor
Nursing Supervisor [2013 – 2018]
- Oversees and implements clinical productivity, quality, and customer-service standards
- Resolves clinical and administrative problems including staffing and patient conflicts
- Identifies operational issues and provides insights on lean solutions to enhance productivity
- Coordinates patient placement to appropriate hospital unit from in-hospital transfers and outlying hospitals
Unit Educator/Staff RN – Chest Pain Unit [2011 – 2013]
- Developed nursing care process and documentation standards for the newly built Chest Pain Center to comply with the Society of Chest Pain Center standards.
- Participated in activities to plan, measure, assess, and improve the quality of patient care.
- Developed and implemented unit specific orientation and education for the nursing staff
- Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients.
- Responsible for meeting the Standards of Practice for Chest Pain Center and managing all assigned personnel, supplies, and equipment.
Staff RN – Emergency Department [2008 – 2011]
- Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients in different emergency settings including triage, fast track, behavioral, and high acuity areas.
- Responsible for meeting the Standards of Practice for Emergency Department and managing all assigned personnel, supplies, and equipment
- Performed leadership duties as charge nurse which includes coordinating staff assignments, resolves clinical and administrative issues within the department, patient flow monitoring, and m managing overall unit processes and quality standards.
Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee [CLOSED]
Knoxville, TN
Staff RN | Charge RN
Staff RN – Emergency Department
- Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients in different emergency settings including triage, fast track, behavioral, and high acuity areas.
- Responsible for meeting the Standards of Practice for Emergency Department and managing all assigned personnel, supplies, and equipment
Charge Nurse – Cardiac Stepdown
- Provided patient care to cardiac stepdown patients using the standards of care (including post-cardiac procedures including angioplasty and CABG)
- Performed leadership duties as charge nurse which includes coordinating staff assignments, resolves clinical and administrative issues within the department, patient flow monitoring, and managing overall unit processes and quality standards
Trustaff – (BMC, UCSF-MC, WARMC)
Multi-State
Travel Nurse
- Responsible for direct patient care in medical-surgical, cardiac step-down, and critical care units.
Stamford Hospital [Stamford Health]
Stamford, CT
Staff Nurse – Cardiac Unit
- Responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care for assigned patients and meeting the Standards of Practice and managing all assigned personnel, supplies, and equipment
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
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Clinical Nursing Excellence Award- – 2021 Recipient
NYCHHC | Community Care
CRAIN’S NYC Business 2020 Notable in Healthcare – 2020 Recipient
NYCHHC | Covid-19 Isolation Hotel Implementation Team
Employee of the Month – November 2014 Recipient
Methodist Medical Center
Professional Nursing Clinical Excellence Award – 2011 Recipient
Mercy Health Partners
Silver Lamp Award – Education & Research – 2011 Recipient
Mercy Health Partners
Professional Advancement Program – 2010 Recipient
Mercy Health Partners
Preceptor Recognition – 2010 Recipient
Mercy Health Partners
Employee of the Year – 2014 Nominee
Methodist Medical Center
Methodist Medical Center
Silver Lamp Award – 2006 Nominee
Baptist Hospital of East Tennessee
CRAIN'S NYC Business 2020 Notable in Healthcare
2020 Recipient
NYCHHC | Covid-19 Isolation Hotel Implementation Team
