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Click here or scroll down to respond to this candidate Candidate's Name RN BSN CNOR
Street Address Southern Prairie Drive
Madrid Iowa
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Executive Profile
Surgical Services Leader with 25 years operating room experience and exceptional knowledge. Develops strong
relationships with physicians, staff and peers and creates an atmosphere of trust. Utilizes the nursing process to
provide high quality care and collaborates with multidisciplinary team to facilitate excellent patient outcomes.
Surgical Services Profile
Strong clinical knowledge of surgical services
Ability to plan, lead, organize, control and promote a team with spirit of
continuous quality/performance improvement
Able to develop overall policy and procedure for areas of responsibility with
interpersonal skills necessary to interact with all levels of hospital personnel
and external parties
Advanced analytical and problem solving skills necessary to develop and a
administer innovation care delivery within the confines of staff and budget
constraints
Excellent ability to work with diverse groups of people including employees,
colleagues, medical staff, patients and community members
Develop and maintain effective relationships with physicians, staff and
department managers
Well developed written and verbal communication skills
Open, visible and approachable style of leadership
Professional Experience
Director of Surgical Services
Current July 2012-August 2013
Boone County Hospital
Boone Iowa
Built the charge master for Meditech Computer documentation including the
documentation piece
Managed 2 OR s, 8 Same Day Surgery bays, PACU and two endoscopy suites
Managed Nurses, techs and Central Processing Team
Completed an Endoscope equipment update
Completed master scheduling
Managed FTE s under budget.
Eliminated all agency staff
Managed budget at a 3% decrease from previous year
Worked with team to increase patient satisfaction scores through scripting
Conducted monthly staff meetings
Chaired the surgery/anesthesia meeting quarterly
Reviewed revised policy and procedure
Introduced new ideas based on previous experience
January 2011- March 2012
Washington Regional Medical Center
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Assistant Director Operating Room, Central Processing, C-Section
Oversee 70+ employees in the Operating Room and Central Processing Department;
500 to 700+ procedures per month
Responsible for all employee evaluations, quality tracking, first case of the day on time
starts, turn over times, all quality audits and tracers
Created and updated 100+ Policy and Procedures according to current AORN
standards/AMMI
Increased surgery case load from an average of 16 cases per day to 25 cases per day
Created 76% block time with benchmark utilization
Brought first case of the day on time starts from 62% to 76%-83% at or above national
benchmark
Reduced turn-over times from an average of 42 min. to under 30 min. for all services
Decreased flash sterilization by 31%
Created tissue tracking logs
Implemented the DaVinci program
Implemented the Brachy/Cryo Therapy program
Implemented a Bariatric Program
Assisted with an instrument tracking program
Assisted with implementation of reprocessing single use items
Managed FTEs under budget by $800,000 for the fiscal year 2011
Under budget for supplies in 2011
Decreased inventory/par levels by $300,000 in 2011
July 2009 January 2011
Saint Francis Medical Center
Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Operating Room Manager
Oversee 90+ employees and 21 Operating Rooms (one of which is a hybrid room for
aneurysm coiling); 600 to 800 procedures per month
Responsible for all employee evaluations
Conduct all interviews for new employees
Established a Master staffing schedule for employees to provide optimal care for
patients and surgeon satisfaction
Established a vacation request/holiday rotation
Established a Competency Based skills checklist for employees to include behavioral
criteria
Manage FTEs to 9.75 worked hours per unit of service saving over one million dollars
this fiscal year
Completed JCAHO Tracers monthly for flash sterilization, counts in the OR, washing
instruments, time out procedure, site marking, antibiotic given 1 hour prior to incision
time, proper hair removal, crash cart checks
Completed 87 employee evaluations this fiscal year
Introduced and implemented the hands free zone for staff and surgeon safety
Implemented a safety initiative to decrease sharp injuries in the OR with excellent
results and savings in the last 3 months of approximately $47,000 in initial physician
visits alone
Conduct monthly staff meeting and have morning report at the OR desk daily at 7am to
go over the day (also e-mail morning report for staff whom may not be present)
Address on time starts and procedure delays with staff and physicians
Update policy and procedures to reflect current AORN recommendations
Established an instrument liaison program for OR and sterile processing to track lost
instruments and incomplete sets
Promotes team work between departments
Utilizes Root Cause Analysis for various issues or deficiencies
Utilizes FMEA and handles patient grievance issues
Completes monthly Operating Room variances
Created action plans for all SCIP measures that pertain to the Operating Room
Increased Neurology, GYN and CVS service lines by follow through with surgeon
issues and providing quality turn over times
Complete monthly audits for possible JCAHO deficiencies
Created a social committee to recognize and honor individuals, Surgical Technologist
Week, Peri-operative Nurse Week, Transport Day, Secretary Day, Sterile Processing
Week, CRNA Week and Physician Appreciation Day
Responsible for process improvement plans
January 1990-2008
Mercy Medical Center
Sioux City, IA.
Clinical Nurse Manager Operating Room (Manager 9 years, Staff Nurse 9 years)
Oversee 100+ employees, averaging 700 surgical procedures per month with 12
operating rooms
Responsible for daily operations of the Operating Room, PACU, Same Day Surgery,
Pretesting and the Pain Center
Responsible for FTE control at 7.5 worked hours per hour of service
Oversaw Capital expenditures, Monthly Audits/Tracers, Process improvement
measures
Conducted orientation for new employees and employee evaluations
Involved in JCAHO preparation
Helped update Policy and Procedures
Responsible for Inventory and Vendor Control
Experience with a Level II Trauma Center
Experience with a Union Hospital
Experience with Orthopedics, Neurology, General, GYN, CVS, Open Heart, Urology
Bariatric Procedures, Robotic procedures and EENT.
Education:
Jacksonville University BSN
Associate Degree in Nursing from Western Iowa Technical Community College in 1991
CNOR Certification
BCLS Certified
ACLS Certified
Major
Achievements:
Presented at Trinity Fall Conference three years in a row to include O.R. Efficiencies,
Employee Engagement, Operating Room Safety and O.R. Productivity.
Was awarded Trinity Best Practice for Operating Room Quality Indicators,
Preoperative Antibiotics, Temperature Regulation and VTE Protocol
Achieved Benchmark Turn Over Times
Received the Catherine McAuley Award for Excellence in Management
Achieved Best Practice in Solucient Rankings
Current BCLS and ACLS
BSN from Jacksonville University in Florida
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