Nurse Staff
Resume:
LN. NUNICA MI,
Rick Dennie
Objective To secure long-term employment in the field of
Nursing/Nursing Management.
Certifications CEN, CCRN, ACLS, BLS, PALS
Experience 2007-2010 South Haven Community Hospital
South Haven, Michigan
Director of Emergency Nursing and Emergency
Department Staff Nurse
Duties included responsibility for daily operations
with 24 hour accountability. Budget formulations,
strategic planning and direct supervision of ED
staff.
Transitioned to staff nurse after one and a half
years. Missed patient contact and patient care.
2001 - 2007 Mercy General Health Partners,
Muskegon MI
225 Bed Acute Care Hospital
Director of Inpatient and Emergency Nursing
Duties included, responsibility for day-to-day
operations with 24-hour accountability. Budget
formulations, strategic planning, direct
supervision of unit managers and house supervisors.
Accomplishments
Supervised the design and move to a new 18,000
foot, 34 bed Emergency Center.
Directed increased ED visits from 36,000/ year to
44,000/ year while decreasing LBE rate from >3% to
less than 1%.
Decreased door to Doctor time from greater than 55
minutes to consistently less than 20 minutes.
Developed and supervised a patient placement /
house supervisor model that resulted in shortening
the length of stay of admitted ED patients by more
than 90 minutes.
Implemented computerized bed tracking.
Responsible for supervising the implementation of
computerized charting (Cerner Powerchart and First
net) in Critical Care and Emergency department.
Supervised implementation of computerized physician
order entry in areas of responsibility.
Responsible for numerous quality initiatives in ICU
(Keystone Project) Such as glycemic control, vent
associated pneumonia, decubiti reduction.
Sat on and chaired numerous hospital committees:
Linkage, Physician satisfaction, Productivity, Code
blue, Rapid response
Increased patient satisfaction scores from 30th
percentile in 2002 to 80th percentile in 2006
(Picker)
Increased Gallup employee participation in
responsible areas from <20% to > 90% from 2002 to
2006.
Increased Gallup engagement scores in areas of
responsibility from and grand mean of < 3.20 to >
than 3.8 from 2002 to 2006
Brownsville Medical Center, Brownsville, TX
175 Bed Acute Care Hospital
Director of Critical Care
Duties included 24 hour responsibility of two 12
bed ICU's. Developing and administrating new open
heart program. Budget, strategic planning,
recruitment and retention.
Accomplishments
Established and administrated successful open-heart
program that exceeded two hundred open hearts in
2000 with less than one percent mortality.
Help reduce RN vacancy rate in ICU from > 30% to <
12 % in two years.
Established and chaired Code Blue team established
Recruitment and Retention team. Initiated Shared
Governance.
Corpus Christi Heart Hospital Corpus Christi, TX
Staff Nurse/Charge nurse CVICU
Care of open heart patients and major vascular
patients post op.
Including Homodynamic, IABP, CVVH monitoring.
Developed staff schedules
Obtained CCRN certification.
1994-1996 Sphon Hospital Corpus Christi
TX.
Staff Nurse nuero trauma ICU
Care of pre and post surgical neuro and trauma
patients
ICP monitoring
Involved in Code team and quality team.
1992-1994 Horizon Specialty Hospital
Corpus Christi TX.
Charge Nurse
Night shift charge for 32-bed sub acute rehab
hospital.
Direct charge for 3-4 LPN's, Respiratory Therapy,
2-3 PCA's
Care for trached vent dependent patients,
Peritoneal dialysis and post op burn patients.
Acquired ACLS
Education 1988-1992 Cambrian College Sudbury Ontario
Canada
RN Diploma
Graduated with honors
Almeda University
Bachelor of Science major in Health Care
Administration
Interests Golf, Bridge, outdoors
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