Registered Nurse
Resume:
Anne Freestate Shannahan
Easton, MD. 21601
*************@*****.***
My goal is to find, or create, a position in which I can vest myself, utilizing my maturity and
varied nursing background of 30 years. I hope to find a position that will offer diversity,
independence, interest, challenges and flexibility.
Education:
The Gunston School, Centreville, MD. High School Diploma 1973
Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA BA Sociology/Social Work 1977
University of Surrey, Guildford, England Year abroad-English Studies 1975-
76
Macqueen Gibbs Willis School of Nursing, Easton, MD Diploma in Nursing 1982
Employment:
• Staff Nurse: Shore Home Care Home Health & Hospice, a part of University of Maryland
Shore Regional Health, Easton, MD. 21601 (July 2004-present)
Began career here as an intake nurse for one year and moved on to be the Quality Improvement
RN, working independently, with oversight, from the QI Manager at Shore Home Care.
Responsibilities include:
• Oversee infection control plan for Shore Home Care. I serve on the Infection Control
Committee at The Memorial Hospital at Easton. Monitor track and report, on a quarterly
basis, CAUTI, Wound Infections and CLBS Infections.
• Performing clinical pre-billing audits.
• Monitoring, tracking and reporting Occurrenceand Medication Event reports and
providing data to the Risk Manager at Shore Health System.
• Provide and assist with staff education.
• Assists the QI Manager in developing and coordinating our quality improvement program
in conjunction with the requirements of The Joint Commission, Medicare, Maryland
State requirements and Magnet.
• Performing focus audits as required.
• Responsible for monthly reporting and yearly reports on quality initiatives.
• Member of the UR Committee for both Hospice and Home Health.
• Review and prepare documentation for a Medicare ADR and, in the case of a denial,
prepare the redetermination request.
• General remedial help for clinicians.
• Member of HPAC: Hospice Professional Advisory Committee
• Member of the Falls Task Force Committee at University of Maryland Shore Medical
Center at Easton.
• June 2011: Presented a poster at the Maryland Patient Safety Center Falls Congress in
Columbia, MD.
• January 2012: Hosted a webinar for the Maryland Patient Safety Center on fall
prevention.
• Staff Nurse: Shore Health System: Digestive Health Center, Easton, MD. 21601
(April 2002-July 2004)
Worked, per diem, for two years as RN in the unit responsible for admission to the unit, pre and
post procedure preparation and care and patient education.
• Office Nurse/Manager: Wm H. Wood, JR, MD, Easton, MD. 21601 (September 1995-
April 2002)
Employed as practice nurse and office manager for Internal Medicine and Infectious disease
physician. Responsible for daily running of office, RN- based procedures, travel advice and
travel immunizations.
• 1985-1995: Lived and worked (as RN) in Farnham, Surrey, England. Jobs there included:
1. Home Health visiting nurse
2. Head Nurse on surgical unit
3. Recovery Room RN
4. Manager of a home for developmentally challenged children
5. Night nurse at an assisted living facility
• June 1982-July 1985: Prior to moving to England worked as RN in a cardiac surgical
step-down unit in Atlanta, Georgia and an Emergency Room nurse in the Memorial
Hospital at Easton and Snellville Hospital in Snellville, Georgia.
References upon request.
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