Joyce Walker RN BSN

410-***-**** • ac8jgb@r.postjobfree.com

Westminster, MD 21158

Clinical Nurse Manager

Highly Effective Registered Nurse with 30 years’ experience in the health care setting. Willing to take on new challenges and complete any education necessary for career growth. Exceptional listening and communication skills resulting in patient confidence. Core Professional Strengths

• Staff training and development • Self-starter • Interpersonal communication

• Ability to react to rapidly changing situations and respond with amended care plans

• Complex problem solving • Patient education to understand their physical conditions, therapies, and medications.

Employment Highlights

CARROLL HEALTH GROUP, WESTMINSTER, MD

• Assisted in the expansion of services to include sonography and laboratory testing in the office, allowing patients to complete important testing easily contributing to increased compliance.

• Strengthened and implemented office guidelines and policy, providing employees and providers with consistent care plans, and reducing patient confusion.

• Executed a plan to track early pregnancy losses in coordination with the providers. Patients were given personal counseling on the management of their care, reducing the patient’s anxiety and confusion.

• Undertook development of a personalized Obstetric educational program providing orientation, education, and a care plan for each patient.

• Expanded orientation and educational training for MA staff to include competencies for injections and obtaining accurate blood pressure readings.

CARROLL HOSPITAL, WESTMINSTER, MD

• Coordinated safe nursing care for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients.

• Provided nursing care to stabilize newborns in the Special Care Nursery.

• Initiated policy and procedure for a Perinatal Loss Program.

• Identified strategies for the nursing role in the Maternal-Fetal Medicine program to facilitate a partnership with Sinai Hospital.

• Oriented new staff and managed the associated training efforts. Education

BSN West Virginia Wesleyan College

Licensing and Certifications

State of Maryland Licensed Registered Nurse

State of Pennsylvania Licensed Registered Nurse (application in progress) Current BLS Certification