Carmen kosicek
MSN, rn, NM, CMR
815-***-**** / 7104 Hunters Moon Court, Hamilton, OH 45011 /
*******@***.***
summary
Experienced Mastered Prepared Nursing leader with a multi faceted
and impactful nursing career spanning director of nursing,
collegiate nursing educator, pharmaceutical nursing educator,
pharmaceutical sales, and traditional nursing with innovative
educational healthcare industry business insights.
Experience
Johnson & Johnson / inVentiv Health - Chattanooga, TN Territory
06/2012-08/2014 Clinical Nurse Sales Education Specialist
- Pediatrics
One of 130 hand selected RNs charged with frontline clinical nurse
sale educator roles within top key opinion leader pediatric offices.
Directly responsible for growth of OTC medication of 67% increase
above corporate expectations during first 18 months of impact.
Positive and direct impact of allergy and pain medication quota by
426%
Pfizer, Inc. - Chicago-South, IL Territory -Downsized-
08/2001-11/2009 Specialty Sales Representative -
Neuroscience & Psychiatry
Successful territory budgetary management and leadership of sales
representatives to facilitate enhanced fiscal growth of multi
million dollar products annually far surpassing corporate goals.
Experienced with launch of new disease state products as well as end
of patent life promotion of products, all resulting in sales
exceeding demanding corporate expectations.
Professional Healthcare Representative
Routinely grew market share and surpassed Fortune 500 corporate
sales quotas while working within the challenges of uninsured
population markets.
Corinthian Colleges, Inc. - Santa Ana, CA, National Position
-Downsized- 07/2012-10/2013 Director of Nursing & Health
Professions Program Research & Development
Company is in teach out and selling off their schools after an SEC
investigation that broke in 2014.
Solely charged with in-depth market analysis, alignment of clinical
partnerships, feasibility research and development of nursing and
allied health professional programs for the second largest,
for-profit collegiate corporation to further drive demand of
services within opportunistic markets.
Responsible for delivering innovative strategies to create
disruptive markets within the highly competitive collegiate arena to
positively position CCi ahead of market curve for positive uptake
and growth nationally.
Maintained strict adherence to accrediting regulatory bodies,
regional/national, in addition to state specific board of nursing
mandates while perpetuating growth for higher educational services.
Maxim Staffing - Chicago-land Suburbs -Relocated-
08/2009-06/2012 Lead Nurse - Corrections / Hospice / L&D
Chosen as lead nurse on L&D assignments for the largest national
staffing company.
Charged with sole implementation of IV therapy continuing education
for RN staff addressing innovative peripheral intravenous catheters,
needle gauge and length optimal sizing, IV Pumps, Epidural Pumps,
blood transfusions and antibiotic infusion therapies. Sub-Q,
Z-Track and IM injections routinely performed.
Insulin and IM delivery of pharmaceutical agents to inmates daily
while seeing 100+ inmates per shift.
Strategically placed inside Maximum Security, State Level III,
prison facilities to evaluate pharmacological budgetary alternatives
resulting in projected annual savings of $1 million per facility.
Additionally involved with end of life assignments at Northern
Illinois largest in-patient hospice facility facing polypharmacy
patients, extensive use of pain medications (IM, intrathecal pumps,
PO and topical).
University of St. Francis - Joliet, IL
08/2006-06/2012 Nursing Instructor
Clinical and theory L&D/Women's Health instructor at ADN & BSN
private/state/for-profit/non-for-profit higher education facilities
carrying and overload of 14 semester hours per semester.
Hands on care and teaching across women's health including
antepartum, L&D, postpartum, GYN & Operating Room with use of
various types of sutures & suturing techniques, peripheral
intravenous catheters, rationale of needle selection for neonates vs
adults, syringe choice on size and safety, and operating room blades
and instruments. IM and sub-q injections performed on adults and
neonates daily.
Courses spanned Injection/IV/Infusion Therapy, Contemporary Nursing
Legal/Ethical Issues, Women's Health Care, Healthcare Economics,
Legal Documentation, and NCLEX review.
Facilitated learning environments across a diverse age, ethnic and
socioeconomic student population throughout the nations third
largest metro landscapes. 64:1 theory ratios and 8:1 clinical
ratios.
Adventist Health Systems - Midwest Division
10/1998-08/2001 Director of Nursing - Women's Health
Exercised benchmarking techniques to ensure departmental budget
decreased to be within expected ranges while recruiting experienced
nursing staff, boosting morale and enhancing compliance of JACHO
regulations.
Superior leadership ability and strong clinical nursing insights
leading to department becoming one of the top financially stable and
growing departments of the Midwest Region Facilities.
Labor & Delivery Charge Nurse
Implemented natural and holistic birthing techniques leading to
enhanced departmental education on current OB trends thereby
decreasing cesarean section levels to below the national norms while
exceeding positive maternal and newborn outcomes.
Silver Cross Hospital - Joliet, IL
08/1995 - 10/1998 Labor & Delivery Nurse
Saint Joseph Hospital - Chicago, IL
02/1995 - 08/1995 Labor & Delivery Nurse
Good Samaritan Hospital - Downers Grove, IL
08/1992 - 02/1995 Nuclear Medicine Technologist
Edward Hospital - Naperville, IL
06/1991 - 08/1992 Nuclear Medicine Technologist
education
Case Western Reserve University
Master of Science in Nursing 4.0 GPA
Frontier Nursing University
Graduate Certificate of Nurse Midwifery 3.77 GPA
CMR Institute
Certificate in Managed Healthcare Economics & Disease Management
University of St. Francis
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Triton College
Associate of Applied Science - Nuclear Medicine
Carmen Kosicek, MSN, RN, NM, CMR