Julie Ann Jenkins RN BSN CNOR

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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

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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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