Manager Registered Nurse
Resume:
Linda Jane Bryant Morgan RN, ADN, BSN, MSN, CNOR
Madisonville, KY 42431 ***********.****@*****.***
Mission Statement
• To assist and empower healthcare personal in the improvement of patient care employing health
care information technology
Professional Summary
• Over 30 years as a Masters prepared Registered Nurse with comprehensive clinical, managerial,
and health care information technology experience
Professional Experiences
Baptist Health Madisonville October 2012 to Present
Interim Director of Surgical Services
• Management of over 125 FTEs, with full HR responsibilities.
o Direct responsibility for
10 Operating Rooms in multidiscipline units
Preadmission Testing Unit
Same Day Surgery
• Pre and Post Procedure patient care
Post Anesthesia Care Unit
Sterile Processing Unit
Surgery Scheduling and Reporting
o Full budgetary responsibilities
o Department Staff development, Risk Management and Performance Improvement
• Nursing Informatics responsibility for McKesson with Pathways Healthcare Scheduling (PHS) and
Horizon Surgical Manager (HSM)
Kforce July 2012 to October 2012
Consultant
Subcontracting for McKesson at Trover Health Systems
Madisonville, Kentucky
• Brought in by McKesson to review and improve client’s satisfaction with Pathways Healthcare
Scheduling (PHS) and Horizon Surgical Manager (HSM)
o Corrected several initial build errors and modified table builds in line with the client’s
needs and wants.
o Revamped Patient Tracking Boards
o Improved system performance by staff education
Scheduling OR and OB
Table building
• Staff and Practitioner
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• Item Master
General table maintenance
o Successfully reduced the number temporary account number errors
Staff education of OR and Ancillary department schedulers
• Upgraded Schedulers’ “User Rights” so they can see a patients
appointments and account numbers in other departments
• How to select the correct T-number
• How to change scheduled account numbers
o Actual account numbers
o T-numbers
o To accommodate the Same Day Surgery (SDS) department, management needed to
document the care given to patients’ receiving care in Cath Lab and Radiology in HSM
Created new SDS resource unit and associated tables
Created new scheduling for Cath Lab and Radiology which would add a SDS
appointment
Education of Cath Lab and Radiology schedulers on scheduling with new sets
Upgraded Schedulers’ user rights to accommodate new sets
maxIT Healthcare August 2010 to July 2012
Senior Consultant
ProMedica Health Systems
Toledo, Ohio
o Horizon Surgical Manager (HSM) Staff training and Go Live Support
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
Memphis, Tennessee
o Short term administrative assignment Horizon Surgical Manager (HSM) Resource Map evaluation
and updates
Atlantic Health Systems
Morristown New Jersey
o Implemented Horizon Surgical Manager:
Upgrade to version15.0.6 with Integration to Horizon Clinicals version 10.3 Horizon Health
Summary and Horizon Expert Documentation modules including:
• Gap analysts
• System configuration
• File building
• Testing
Linda Jane Bryant Morgan RN, ADN, BSN, MSN, CNOR
70 East North St. #2
Madisonville, KY 42431 ***********.****@*****.***
• User training
• Change process for Pre-Admission Testing, Pre-Op, Intra-Operative modules
o Pathways Healthcare Scheduling:
Established protocols for building and granting user security rights for OR and ancillary
departments after extensive review and rebuild of use groups and user security rights for PHS and HSM
users
o Headed a Lean initiative which reconfigured the way the Operating Room and Pre Admission
Testing appointment were scheduled, reducing time required for appointment scheduling, reduce creation
duplicate medical numbers and account numbers, conducted the associated staff re-training
o Completed PHS and HSM build for a newly acquired facility
o Converted Newton Medical Center’s previous procedure file to utilize Atlantic Health’s procedure
file, and physician procedure authorizations, assisted with Resource Map conversion
o Conducted intensive HSM PHS training for Atlantic Heath’s HSM PHS systems analysts
San Joaquin General Hospital January 2010 to August 2010
Staff Nurse IV Clinical Systems Analyst PHS HSM
• Completed implementation Horizon Surgical Manager including user training for:
o Pre-Admission Testing
o Pre-Op
o Intra-Operative
o Post-op
o Phase 2 Post-op documentation version 14.0
• Responsible for:
o File building
o Building security user groups and user rights
o Screen design
o Writing policies and procedures
o System configuration
o Charge coding
o Charge processing
o Go-live and post go-live support and maintenance
• Enhanced and streamlined the process for requesting and receiving CDM numbers
• Established practices which dramatically reduced lost revenue due to late charges and lack of
appropriate CDM numbers
Internal Data Resources April 2008 to
November 2009
Clinical Systems Analyst PHS HSM
Community Health Systems (CHS)
• Completed implementation of Pathways Healthcare Schedule and Horizon Surgical
Manager versions 11.2 & 12.0 including:
o Complete file building and testing
o Established user groups and user security rights
o User training for PHS Scheduling and HSM Pre-op, Intra-op and Post-op
documentation
• Performed AS400 user training, order entry, and file build.
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• Facility assessment including:
o Present workflow processes
o Future workflow processes
o Gap analysis for future computer implementations at multiple health care facilities
Stoltenberg Consulting Inc. October 2006 to January 2008
Healthcare Systems Consultant
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
• Member Epic Ambulatory Care Implementation team
• Assisted with analyzing clinic workflows, epic file building
• Assisted with clinic staff education of Epic Care Ambulatory, Active member of the
go-live support team
Self Regional Healthcare Greenwood
• Extensive review and optimization of Surgical Services workflow utilizing
McKesson’s HSM and PHS
• Identified strengths and weakness in workflow and software utilization and file
structures
• Provided extensive recommendations for the restructuring and reduction in the
number of surgical procedure and resource maps
• Developed workflows to accomplish the reduction of excess procedures and
resource maps
• Developed improved surgical procedure, resource map and reporting file
structures
• Improved workflow processes for selecting correct procedures during surgical
scheduling and maintenance of resource maps, procedure and item files
• Developed and conducted staff education to meet the required workflow changes
Rex Healthcare October 2001 to October 2006
Resource Map Coordinator
• Integral team member converting ESI Orbit to McKesson HSM, PHS, and PMM
• Developed methods to track and document the verification process while converting ESI
preference list to HSM Resource Maps
• Maintained edits the two different systems for over a year
• Developed methods for improving the accuracy of PHS requirements and the corresponding items
on HSM Resource Maps, reducing equipment and instrument shortage problems
• Provided ongoing assistant and education to scheduling personnel with software issues and
knowledge of surgical procedures
• Reviewed scheduled cases and adjusted supplies in HSM prior to the surgical procedure to meet
individual patients’ needs based on patient information and surgeon’s requests
• Adjust supplies in HSM prior to the surgical procedure on all cases with multiple procedures and
or multiple surgeons
• Assisted team members with Just In Time inventory (JIT) process and trouble shot problems
• Created new surgeon authorization and new maps, maintains, and updates, approximately 10,000
Resource Maps
• Served on hospital and Surgical Services Quality Improvement Councils Assisted with unit
preparation for successful Magnet recognition
Linda Jane Bryant Morgan RN, ADN, BSN, MSN, CNOR
70 East North St. #2
Madisonville, KY 42431 ***********.****@*****.***
• Established protocols, and user rights for ancillary departments to access ESI for Infection Control
reporting and Patient Accounting for implant invoices
ISH Inc. September 2000 to August 2001
Clinical Consultant
• Assisted clients with Implementation of Surgical Information Systems (SIS) software Operating
Room Scheduling and Perioperative documentation
Mediware Information Systems Inc. March 2000 to September 2000
Implementation Analyst
• Assisted with design, development and programming of Operating Room Scheduling and
Perioperative software and Implantation of Operating Room Scheduling and Perioperative documentation
software
Daou-RHI Inc.
June 1999 to February 2000
Senior Consultant
• Extensive Y2K software testing of several different Operating Room Scheduling, staff scheduling,
supply and intra-operative charting systems
• Onsite staff education, recommendations for optimizing the software’s utilization and methods to
increase security of McKesson HBOC Orbit product
Durham County Hospital April 1993 to August
2000
Operating Room Nurse Manager
• Management of approximately 90 FTEs, with full HR responsibilities.
• Direct responsibility for 16 Operating Rooms in multidiscipline units
• Full budgetary responsibilities
• Staff development, staffing and scheduling, Risk Management and Performance Improvement.
• Successful JCAHO accreditation inspections
• Systems Administrator for ESI
o Implemented and maintained software for
OR Scheduling
Intraoperative documentation
Education
University of Texas Health Science Center December 1990
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Master of Science Degree in Perioperative Nursing
Minor in Education
Corpus Christi State University December 1989
Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing
Kellogg Community College June 1979
Associates Degree in Nursing
Professional Certifications/Affiliations
Certified Nurse Operating Room September 1987 to Present
Member Association of periOperative Room Nurses 1984 to Present
Commander Nurse Corps US Navy Reserve Ret.
Product Specialties
• McKesson:
o PMM
o PHS
o HSM
o HCI
o ESI Orbit
• Epic Ambulatory
• HMS Order Entry
• Microsoft Office:
o Word
o Excel
o PowerPoint
o Outlook
o Access
o Project
o MSSQL
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