DIANE MARIE SMART

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BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS 02324-3405

860-***-****

acvp61@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: Seeking employment as RN Assistant Director of Nursing Services

WORK HISTORY:

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR NURSING SERVICES at Wedgemere Golden Living, Taunton, Massachusetts February 2016 to present.

Assistant to Director of Nursing Services at this 94-bed facility to ensure optimal safety and living conditions for geriatric population requiring long term care and those residents requiring short term rehabilitation.

RN SUPERVISOR 11Pm 7AM at Autumn Lakes Healthcare At Cromwell September 2011-April 10, 2015.

Ensure safety and security of residents and staff of this 170+-bed facility; ensure optimum work environment and adequate staffing all shifts. Report directly to DNS.

REGISTERED NURSE at Hartford Juvenile Detention Center in Hartford, Connecticut through Connecticut Staffing Works and Maxim Healthcare April 2009 July 2012 (P/T)

Dispense medications, provide group health sessions and ensure mental and physical well-being of youth offenders. Report directly to St Francis Hospital pediatricians.

REGISTERED NURSE, CASE MANAGER at Aetna Insurance in Hartford, Connecticut July 2009 August 2011.

Case Manager for Medicare members Northeast Region. Ensured optimum use of Medicare members’ benefits plans through Aetna Insurance.

EVENING CHARGE NURSE/STAFF NURSE at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut. October 1980 September 2008

Ensure health and well-being of patients including, but not limited to, those patients in adult Med/Surg, psychiatry, dialysis and coronary care. Ensure smooth bed flow and adequate staffing all shifts.

REGISTERED NURSE PER DIEM for cardiac nursing registry Enrich Associates of Trumbull, Connecticut. 1986--1996

Staffed Bridgeport, Connecticut area hospitals in cardiac units, provided private duty nursing care for the cardiac patient, covered staff vacancies in Cardiac Rehab Program at Bridgeport Hospital.

EDUCATION:

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut September 2000 January 2002 RN to

BSN Program

Northland Community College, Thief River Falls, Minnesota

September 1979-May 1980

University of Minnesota, Crookston, Minnesota

September 1979 May 1980

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

Summer Session 1979

ADN Program

Agassiz Valley School of Practical Nursing, Crookston, Minnesota

September 1978 May 1979

LPN Program

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

September 1970 May 1971

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

CERTIFICATIONS: LPN Certificate 1978

LPN Licensure state of Minnesota 1979

ADN May 1980

RN Licensure state of Minnesota 1980

RN Licensure state of Connecticut 1980

RN Licensure state of Massachusetts 2015

CPR Basic Life Support 1978 present

Certified Wound Care Nurse February 2016--present

ADDITIONAL: Named one of Yale-New Haven Hospital’s “Expert Nurses” 1987

Named “Nurse of the Year 2007” for Unit 9-5 Yale-New Haven Hospital 2007

Falls Prevention Group Chairwoman for Unit 9-5 at Yale-New Haven Hospital 2007 2008

Staff Nurse Delegate to “Striving For Excellence” Magnet status task Group at Yale-New Haven Hospital 2004-2007

Medical Cluster Delegate to shared governance board of Yale-New Haven Hospital 2008-2009

Participant “Read-Aloud Program” Bridgeport, Connecticut area Grammar schools 1994 1998

Participant Career Fairs for nursing Bridgeport, Connecticut area High schools 1994-2002

REFERENCES: Available on request.

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