Registered Nurse First Assist
Resume:
Kevin D. Tyrell
RN, CNOR, RNFA
Ft. Lauderdale Fl, 33312
E-mail: *******@*****.***
Education/Licensure
**/** – 8/05 Southwest Florida Colleges, Riga Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 9/90 – 5/93 Maria College, New Scotland Ave., Albany, New York AAS degree: Major Nursing
Texas State Registered Nurse License # 865694
Florida State Registered Nurse License # 3031142
New York State registered Nurse License # 457459-1 9/87 – 6/88 BOCES, Linton Votec, Schenectady, New York Diploma: Major Practical Nursing
New York License # 200070.01
9/83 – 7/84 The Stratford School, Albany, New York Diploma: Major Computer Programming with Business Application 9/81 – 6/83 BOCES, Linton Votec, Schenectady, New York Certificate: Major Health Occupations
9/80 – 6/83 Mont Pleasant High School, Schenectady, New York General Diploma
Certifications / Awards
2005 RNFA
2004 CNOR expires 2019
BLS expires 8/2017
BLS instructor Expires 2/2016
ACLS expires 8/2017
1994 MDS+ assessment coordinator
1993 Certified PRI assessor (48799),
1993 AIMS Assessor
1993 Pediatric award
Work Experience
6/16 - Pres. - Westside Regional Medical Center, Plantation Fl RN CVOR
5/15 – 5/16 - Kindred South Hollywood, Hollywood Fl Surgical Services Manager
manage the unit including budget
all the QI’s and PI’s for the unit
Ordering supplies and equipment
Doing the cases
Hospital wide procedures
Scheduling, pre-operative nursing and post-operative nursing
Payroll
9/14 – 4/15 Trinity Mother Frances Health System, Tyler Texas RNFA/Staff Nurse
* Assist in Surgery
4/96 – 8/14 Lee Memorial Health System, Ft Myers, Florida Operating Room Staff Nurse (4/96 – 3/97)
*Circulating in General, Vascular, GYN, Orthopedics, Neurology, Urology
*Direct patient care during the peri-operative period
*Preceptor to new employees and students
*Training of Scrub students
Clinical Nurse Specialist-General and Vascular (3/97-3/99)
*All of the duties of the staff nurse
*Established and maintained a QI program for my services
*Chairman of clinical products committee
* Responsible of all aspects of my services including the budget and capital purchases
*maintained surgeon specific preference cards
*Secretary of Quality Improvement council
Afternoon Supervisor (3/99 – 6/00)
*Scheduled staff and surgeries for the afternoon shift
*Scheduled cases
* Responsible for the day to day operations of the OR on the evening shift Clinical Nurse Specialist-General/Vascular/GYN/Baratraics (6/00-7/07)
*All the duties of the staff nurse and Clinical Nurse Specialist for General and Vascular
*Added the responsibilities of GYN service
*Established a Baratraics program for the hospital including assisting the floors to establish post operative interventions and preoperative protocols
*Helped establish standardization of instrument trays and packs for the health system (3 hospitals and 1 out patient surgery center
*Responsible for all the students and volunteers in surgical services
* Clinical Coach for new staff
*Preceptor for new staff
*Chairman of education committee
*Member of policy and procedure committee
*Obtained my CNOR
*Obtained my RNFA
Clinical Supervisor (7/07- 10/07)
The health system purchased a new hospital and needed someone to help convert them to the health systems ways of doing things. For 3 months I helped incorporate the staff and management team of there 18 OR suite and 4 open heart rooms into the Lee Memorial health systems Family. Teaching policies and procedures, hospital protocols and in general helping them with the conversion into the health system
Operating Room Staff Nurse (10/07 – 10/10)
* Direct patient care during the peri-operative period
*Preceptor to new employees and students
*Training of Scrub students
*Clinical coach for new staff
*Worked in services to improve the preference cards, tray standardization for system Clinical Education Specialist (10/10 – 8/14)
*The hospital had gone thought 3 Education specialist within a year and asked if I would take on the challenge due to my attention to details and past knowledge.
*Responsible for all the students
* Responsible for all the new hires for the first 3 months
*Responsible for all the educational need for the staff of surgical services (OR, ENDO, PPT, Pre and Post OP) (also SPD until Jan 2013)
*Train all of the interns how to be a OR nurse using Periop101 form AORN
*Maintain all records of staff for governing bodies (Join commission/ DNV)
*Publish a monthly news letter
*Write policies and procedures
*Write job descriptions
* Member of clinical practice council
* Member of System Education council
* Member of OR Educators council
*fill in for charge nurses and supervisors as needed
*participate in the ISO tracer rounds and write corrective action plans
*participate in infection control rounds and write corrective action plans
*Do quality improvement rounds and action plans for improvements
*Train a new peri-anesthesia Educator (started in May 2013 to take over the peri- anesthesia internship program and Peri-anesthesia nurses)
*Helped establish a peri-anesthesia intern program
*BLS instructor
*Participate in interviews of possible new employees
*interview and hire interns for OR
*preceptor to staff, interns and students
*I work in the OR suites in any capacity (circulate, scrub, RNFA)
*Take call for RNFA
*Give breaks and lunches daily
*liaison to LeeSar the company that manages the sterile processing department. Weekly meeting on progress and problems. LeeSar is a centeralized sterilizing and case picking company.
*I am on the local surgical tech. schools Advisory Committee
*Establish a learning plan for new hires based on the PBDS results
*participate in the education and training of point of care testing
*Responsible for annual education needs assessments for the department
*responsible for monthly education meeting
*member of Laser Safety committee
1/95 – 4/96 Albany Medical Center, Albany New York Operating Room Staff Nurse
*Learned to scrub, circulate and become proficient in these services Traumas, Open Heart, Transplant, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Vascular, Urology, GYN, Dental, Plastics, ENT, Pediatrics, Neurology, and General surgeries.
* EKG interpretation and monitoring as well as monitoring patients under local anesthesia.
8/94 – 8/95 Van Rensselaer Manor, Rensselaer, New York Head Nurse
*All operational aspects of my unit including staffing, scheduling and budget
* MDS+ assessment coordinator
*care of the elderly
7/93 – 8/94 Hilltop Manor of Niskayuna, Inc., Niskayuna, New York Charge Nurse
* Certified PRI assessor (48799),
*AIMS Assessor
*Care of the head trauma patients
*Trach care
*Ventilators
*Staff management
References upon request
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