Margaret M. Turner

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Glendale AZ 85303

602-***-**** (home)

602-***-**** (cell)

Education:

Doctoral candidate, PhD., Northcentral University (Doctor of Philosophy in

Education - Higher Education Leadership).

Master's Degree in Clinical/Community Health Education, Wayne State

University, Detroit, MI, 48202, graduated 1996 with honors (GPA 3.8).

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (BSN), Oakland University, Rochester, MI,

1992. GPA 3.7 (magna cum laude). Inducted into Sigma Theta Tau (honor

society for nursing).

Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN), St. Clair County Community College,

Port Huron Michigan 48060. 1982 (cum laude).

Work Experience:

Infection control specialist, Maricopa Integrated Health System, 2009 -

present. 528 bed Level 1 acute care hospital with outlying clinics and

outpatient surgical suite. Responsible for med/surg, surgical (trauma) ICU,

detention, HIV clinic, outpatient surgical clinic, and four other off-site

clinics. Oversee Arizona Burn Center and trauma ICU patients as well as

med/surg and offsite clinics. Prepared for The Joint Commission and DNV

regulatory surveys and received no deficiencies. Identified outbreaks of

multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and worked with the Arizona

Department of Health Services to identify cross transmission and eliminate

it. Discovered cross transmission of Pseudomonas aeruginosa resulting in a

ventilator related pneumonia in the surgical ICU, and worked to get process

changes to prevent further cases (case study in preparation stage for

publishing).

Infection control clinician, John C. Lincoln Deer Valley hospital, 2005 -

2009. 179 bed community hospital. Surveillance, data collection and

analysis, reporting to committees, of targeted and outbreak

infections/diseases. Chairing ad hoc committees. Preparation for HFAP

surveys. Working in conjunction with John C. Lincoln North Mountain,

writing and reviewing policies to facility and network requirements.

Surveillance of OB unit at North Mountain.

Adjunct faculty, RN-BSN program, Grand Canyon University, March 2006 to

March 2009. Capstone and nursing research courses taught at ground and

online courses.

Interim Infection Control Practitioner, Arrowhead Hospital, 2006. Worked

contingent to cover the needs of the JCAHO accredited hospital until a full

time practitioner was hired.

Clinical Educator, John C. Lincoln North Mountain telemetry. 2005-2006. A

36 bed telemetry unit that included patients with cardiac drips,

ventilators. Educated new staff, tracked competencies and provided

inservices for patient care technicians and licensed nursing staff.

Nurse Education Specialist, Banner Mesa Medical Center, 2005. Worked with

community colleges' schools of nursing to place students into learning

environments. Provided orientation and inservices to meet the educational

needs of staff.

Director of Staff Development, Evangelical Home, Port Huron. 2003 -2004.

Provided nurse aide training, wrote curriculum for nurse aide training;

provided and read TB tests for new employees; tracked inservice hours and

provided inservices for patient care staff.

Education Specialist, McLaren Regional Medical Center, 2001-2003. New nurse

employee orientation and critical care class instruction. Developed

orientation plans for new employees, worked with preceptors to improve new

orientees' experience, document action plans, and worked with Human

Resources if problems arose.

Nursing Supervisor, St. Clair County Health Department. Communicable

Diseases and Immunization sections, May 1999 to February 2001. Oversaw and

evaluated nursing and non-nursing personnel; gave immunizations in child

and adult travel clinic; provided inservices to local physicians regarding

childhood immunizations; worked to build data input into MICR.

TB testing validation coordinator. Developed TB curriculum for Michigan

Department of Community Health and American Lung Association, TB education

program to validate TB skin testers and readers throughout the entire state

of Michigan, 1998 - 1999.

Infection Control Practitioner, Henry Ford Health System. Contracted by

Trinity Health to provide services to Mercy Hospital of Detroit. 1998 -

1999. Prepared for JCAHO survey with no deficiencies in infection control,

surveillance, data collection and analysis, reporting data to committees.

Adjunct faculty, St. Clair County Community College, Port Huron, MI. 1996 -

2000. Instructed nursing students in classroom and in clinical settings, in

the Associate Degree nursing program.

Marwood Manor Nursing Home. Quality Assurance, Infection Control/Employee

Health, and inservice coordinator for a 260 bed long term care and

rehabilitation facility. 1997.

McLaren Regional Medical Center. Infection Control Coordinator for a 267

bed acute care facility. 1996 to 1997. Surveillance, data collection and

analysis, and reporting to committees.

Mt. Clemens General Hospital. ICU nurse, including preceptor and charge

responsibilities for cardiac surgical and general ICU. 1995 to 1996.

Mercy Hospital Port Huron. Infection Control and Occupational Health Nurse.

1994 to 1995. Surveillance, data collection and analysis, and reporting to

committees of hospital acquired infections. Provided immunizations and

monitored employee immunization status, post-exposure evaluations.

Harper Hospital, Detroit Medical Center. Surgical and neurosurgical ICU

staff nurse, including charge responsibilities, 1986 to 1993. Infection

Control/employee health liaison, 1993 to 1994. Counseled employees after

occupational exposure to blood and body fluids, administered and read TB

tests to pilot a mandatory physician TB skin testing program for the

Detroit Medical Center.

Port Huron Hospital, ICU nurse, 1983 to 1986.

St. Joseph's, Mt. Clemens. Float nurse, 1982 to 1983.

Certifications, licensure, and memberships:

Basic life support through the American Heart Association, current (renewed

2010).

Certification in infection control (CIC) by Certification Board in

Infection Control (CBIC).since 1997, current certification status

through12/31/2013.

Member, National Nursing Staff Development Organization, American Society

of Microbiology, and American Nurses Association.

Member of APIC, APIC Grand Canyon Chapter (membership secretary, board

member in elected position), Michigan Society of Infection Control (MSIC),

and SHEA.

Registered nurse licensure for Michigan 470-***-****) and Arizona

(RN080989),both current.

Member, Arizona Department of Health Services subcommittees on

antimicrobial sterwardship, and public education.

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