Natalie Y. Giscombe-Simons

***** ********* ******

Aldie, VA 20105

Mobile: 240-***-****

Evening Phone: 703-***-****

Email: acomy2@r.postjobfree.com

Availability:

Job Type: Permanent, Temporary, Presidential Management Fellows, Multiple Appointment Types, Telework

Work Schedule: Full-Time, Job Sharing

Desired locations:

United States - VA

United States - DC

United States - MD

Work Experience:

Oakhurst Medical Centers (non-profit federally

qualified community health clinics)

5582 Memorial Drive

Stone Mountain, GA 30083 United States

07/2013 – 12/2014

Hours per week: 55+

Chief Nursing Officer/Director Patient Care Services

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Plans, organizes and directs the activities of Nursing, Enabling Outreach, Referral Management

Services, Health Information Management and clinical case management for complex and defined

patient population at six Federally Qualified Community Health Centers which serves 12,500

medically indigent and underinsured beneficiaries annually. Coordinate health services activities to

ensure efficient, quality patient care and provides training to the 15 providers and 30

nursing/ancillary staff. Clinical consultant on transition from NEXTGEN to implementation of

Athenahealth EHR system. Lead project manager on Centering Pregnancy, Family Planning Title X,

NCQA Patient Centered Medical Home initiatives. Directed continuous quality improvement, patient

safety and accreditation activities, resulting in Joint Commission 3-year accreditation certification

July of 2014. Collaborated with community outreach team in the development, proofing, and

implementation of public health communications and educational materials. Developed health

communication strategies, Researched and develop clinical policies (i.e., Infection Prevention &

Control; Patient Safety, Anaphylactic Reaction Management, Sexually Transmitted Disease

reporting)and formulated plans of dissemination via fact sheets, media outreach, and web page

information.

Supervisor: Mr. Jeff Taylor

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Air Force Medical Support

Agency/Requirements Division

DoD Health Headquarters

7700 Arlington Boulevard

Falls Church, VA 22042 United States

08/2012 - 06/2013

Hours per week: 40+

Requirements Analyst (Clinical Nurse Consultant)

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

•Responsible for identifying, developing requirements and analysis of medical modernization of

existing technologies for validated capability gaps within the Air Force Medical Service.

•Provided clinical expertise in review and evaluation of new requirements received by the

Requirements Division and determine strategy for action.

•Responsible for the initial execution of funded initiatives by directing and facilitating the creation of

initial capability documents and capability development documents for new requirements.

•Utilized clinical and operational expertise to identify and develop needed future

capabilities/technologies with the potential of enhancing future Air Force Medical Service support to

line operations and DoD beneficiaries treated in AFMS-operated facilities.

•Interfaced with clinical colleagues at the Air Staff, Research Laboratories, Operational units, and

Major Military Commands (MAJCOMs)

Supervisor: ANGELA GRUBBS 703-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

95th Medical Group

30 NIGHTINGALE ROAD

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE

Edwards, CA 93524 United States

06/2010 - 07/2012

Hours per week: 55

Chief Nurse Executive

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

•Plans, initiates and directs execution of nursing activities by 65 registered/licensed practical nurses,

and health technicians in the delivery of 45,000 health care visits per year

•Designed creative approaches to the effective overall development and management of various

recruitment, appointment, retention, and recognition initiatives of nurses and health technicians

•First-line clinical advisor, serves as member of executive staff in strategic planning in organization’s

decision-making process on health matters

•Subject matter expert leader, assists administrator in developing the annual budget for nursing

service and health programs. Provides direct oversight of nursing triage, case management, disease

management, patient safety/ethical/quality program & reviews, education/training and staff

development programs

•Serves as facility infection control senior nurse officer providing continuous oversight and

assessment reviews of blood pathogen and infection prevention program ensuring compliance.

ACHIEVEMENTS: Under my direction, galvanized customer service culture achieving 97% patient

satisfaction rate 24 months consecutively--garnered Outstanding Unit Award recognition. Steered

population/occupational/prevention health programs, earning facility ranking of #1/8 military major

commands. Consultant on 31 elements and 120 supporting documents for the National Committee

for Quality Assurance inspection, key to earning highest accreditation scoring of Level 3 Patient

Centered Medical Home facility. In addition, as senior clinical advising officer, I was responsible for

collaborating with public health department officer to provide infection control expertise on numerous

occasion related to base schools and community impacting disease process (i.e, conjunctivitis

EColi,meningitis, sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis cases), applied and integrated

research results and data with the planning and development of public notice communication

strategies and tactics to prevent spread of disease and increase base populace knowledge.

Reported research findings and evaluation activities to appropriate stakeholders (executive staff,

Chief Medical Staff, Nurse Executive staff, population and infection control committee's through

peer-reviewed journals and other Air Force publications, via formal & informal presentations.

Developed health communications strategies, analyzed clinical policies and procedures and

provided feedback for development of public health communications and educational materials for

dissemination of program summaries, fact sheets, talking points on installation newspaper and

television station.

Supervisor: Colonel Janet Taylor 623-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

779th Medical Group, Malcolm Grow Medical

Center, Andrews AF

1050 West Perimeter Road

Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews AFB, MD 20762 United States

08/2005 - 06/2010

Hours per week: 50

Director Education & Training/Graduate Medical Education Program/Deputy Chief Nurse

Executive/

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Director Education & Training/Graduate Medical Education Program (40+hrs/wk)

•Directed the planning and implementation of education and training programs to validate and

enhance competencies of 30 resident/fellows and 500 clinical nurse/ancillary staff

Deputy Chief Nurse Executive (55+hrs/wk)

•Served as the operations officer for nursing services responsible for the coordination of all activities

related to maintaining standards for the clinical practice of nursing

•Established innovative approaches to the development of a research/evidence based practice

culture for 350 nursing personnel

Director Quality Improvement/Accreditation & Inspection Readiness Services (60 hrs/wk)

•Provided leadership in the application of the nursing process to evaluate continuous readiness and

performance improvement principles to patient care, organizational processes and systems,

improving outcomes at the program and service level. Guaranteed Joint Commission and Air Force

Inspection Agency standards compliance and a 3-year accreditation in 2008

Adult Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Preceptor, Primary Care/Family Practice Clinic (55 hrs/wk)

•Delivered high quality research/evidence-based practice to a panel of 950 military beneficiaries with

acute and complex medical issues

•Facilitated nurse practitioner clinical rotation (3 students/year) and served as clinical site preceptor

in collaboration with Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

•Coordinates and conducts physical/occupational health screenings with determination of fitness for

duty/deployment status affecting military personnel

Deputy Commander, Medical Operations Squadron 55+ hrs/wk)

•Managed clinical/administrative/regulatory compliance functions for 420 personnel/18 clinics/24

inpatient beds with a $15 million health care budget, generating 2,000 admissions and 233,000

outpatient visits yearly

Deputy Director, Family Practice Clinic (50+ hrs/wk)

•Directed clinical/administrative operations and health programs for 92 military and civilian staff.

Directed oversight for provision of primary health care to 35,000 patients annually

Health Care Integrator/Case Manager, Family Practice Clinic 50+hrs/wk)

•Directed managed care practices/policies, program development and execution for health care

delivery to 12,000 patients; guided 12 nurse and 16 health technicians in the performance of

discharge planning, utilization/case management (CM) and disease management (DM) activities

•Coordinated tracking of referrals management, quality reviews and clinical pathway development

saving $250K per annum in health care cost. Crafted population/prevention health strategies and

programs, tracked and presented reports of measurable metrics in preventative health, deployment

readiness and fitness for duty for specific category of gender and age pertinent, exceeding local and

Air Force level metric goals

ACHIEVEMENTS: Created daily communications surveillance reports by analyzing the current

communication context or situation (including print, television, Web & social media; identified gaps in

knowledge about learning audiences, collect feedback from customers; monitor reports and revise

strategy for communicating required information/data. Inspection tested, capturing strings of

successes with "Outstanding" rating for facility's (Physician Assistant, Nurse Transition, Ancillary

Services Program) Phase II training platform, taking over all programs from a "zero failure" to "2"

compliance score within 4 months. Established benchmark Air Force resuscitative medicine

program, recognized as "best practice" training site by Air Force Inspector General survey team.

Lead facilitator for executive team strategic planning and project officer for Joint Commission(JC)

inspection, won "Top Performer" award by JC lead inspection and hospital CEO for key contributor

in earning JC 3-year accreditation.

Collaborated with civilian health agencies and piloted expansion training platform, garnered 2

additional civilian long-term care facility training agreement contract...first-ever for the Air Force.

Paramount to Patient Safety program newly automated patient safety event reporting process,

conducting staff training and dissemination of electronic daily reporting reminders and updates-

program recognized as "best practice" by Air Force Audit Agency. Performed Air Force accession

interviews for northeastern region recruitment efforts, 99.8% selection and commissioning rate for

candidates endorsed. Vital to organization's joint manpower drill, examined 420 FTE and submitted

validation briefing for 174 nursing service positions to meet base realignment and downsizing plans.

Supervisor: Colonel Sandra Tynes 703-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

36th Medical Group, Andersen AFB, Guam

Yigo, GU 96543 United States

06/2003 - 07/2005

Hours per week: 55

Director Clinical Services/Flight Commander/Adult Nurse Practitioner

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Director Clinical Services/Flight Commander, Medical Operations Squadron (60+hrs/wk)

•Provided overall direction and leadership for 65 clinical staff on policies, procedures and programs

serving 3,500 patients with a wide-range of medical problems

Adult Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice Clinic (50+ hrs/wk)

•Evaluated, diagnosed and treated adult patients with acute and complex medical problems

•Developed care plan, provided comprehensive treatment with a combination of medication,

patient/family counseling on wellness and prevention to promote health and evaluation of fitness for

duty determination

ACHIEVEMENTS: Under my leadership, clinched the title of "Clinical Optimization Team of the Year

2003 & 2005 and Pacific Air Forces Surgeon General award 2005 for efficiency, quality, patient

safety, health promotion/prevention and patient satisfaction initiatives with measurable outcomes

and best continuous On-The-Job training.

Supervisor: Gloria Bowden 505-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

10th Medical Group, United States Air Force

Academy, CO

4102 Pinion Drive

USAFA

Air Force Academy, CO 80840 United States

12/1999 - 07/2003

Hours per week: 55

Adult Nurse Practitioner/Clinical Preceptor Internal Medicine/Family Practice

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

•Evaluated and provided comprehensive outpatient medical care for 650 medically complex adult

internal medicine patients, managing over 2,800 visits annually

•Served as the only advanced practice nurse preceptor in the facility to 3 nurse practitioner students

and 8 clinical phase II physician assistants. Awarded 10th Medical Group Nurse Practitioner

Preceptor of the Year 2002

•Presented article review lecture, and coordinator of advance practice nurse continuing education

lecture series for 50 Army-Air Force Colorado Springs Nurse Practitioner Group

•Sole clinician to provide preventative women’s health care evaluations. Stood up first-ever women’s

health focus clinic within the Internal Medicine Department.

ACHIEVEMENTS: Assigned as first-ever Air Force Adult Nurse Practitioner and first advanced

practice nurse to be part of the Internal Medicine Department team; yielded an additional $20K/year

in performing office procedures, earned $13M in revenue/saved $2M in outsourcing to civilian

network--met military beneficiary needs within DoD health care system.

Supervisor: Dr. Kevin Flood 719-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

89th Medical Group, Malcolm Grow Medical

Center

Andrews Air Force Base

Andrews AFB, MD 20762 United States

07/1996 - 11/1999

Hours per week: 45

Eve/Night Supervisor/Assistant Nurse Manager

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Evening/Night Nursing Supervisor (36-45 hrs/wk)

•Coordinated, supervised, and evaluated clinical and administrative activities for 45 professional

nursing staff in 11 clinical areas, 39 bed aero medical staging facility, 8 bed intensive care unit, 8 bed

medical surgical unit, and emergency department

•Leads managers in the development of staffing ratios & plans and performs bed control

management, transfer coordination, discharge planning and case management for military health

beneficiaries

Assistant Nurse Manager, Family Practice Clinic (45 hrs/wk)

•Plan, direct, nursing triage advice line and responsible for administrative and clinical aspects of an

outpatient ambulatory service clinic for 8 providers, a family practice residency site, 7 nurses, 10

medical technicians, and 4 clerical support staff serving over 15,000 patients annually.

•Case managed and coordinated medical care and referrals to civilian resources and military

specialty services.

•Participated in family practice residency program as grand round lead medical case review/topic

presenter

Assistant Nurse Manager, Pediatric Clinic (45 hrs/wk)

•Implemented and managed 15 new pediatric subspecialty clinics servicing over 100 patients

monthly and 6 pediatricians caring for 30,000 pediatric visits annually

•Functioned as case manager and clinical research nurse coordinator care coordinator to 75 special

needs pediatric patients and family

Nurse Manager, Medicine-Surgical Unit (50 hrs/wk)

•Supervised 27 registered nurse and health technicians on a 7-bed unit in the delivery of health care

services to senior ranking military personnel, congressmen, foreign diplomats, and their dependents

Supervisor: Major Sandra Tynes 703-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Yes

56th Medical Group, MacDill Air Force Base,

Florida

8415 Bayshore Boulevard

MacDill AFB

Tampa, FL 33621 United States

04/1992 - 07/1996

Hours per week: 42

Clinical Nurse/Asst Nurse Manager/Asst Infection Control Officer

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Clinical Nurse/Assistant Nurse Manager, Critical Care Unit (36-42 hrs/wk)

•Performed and coordinated clinical nursing care on an 8-bed critical care unit for adult patients

Assistant Infection Control Officer (12-14 hrs/wk)

•Developed/implemented infection surveillance program designed to reduce incidence of infectious

disease for 2,000 admissions and 233,000 patient visit/year

Clinical Nurse, Medical Surgical Unit (36-42 hrs/wk)

•Performed direct patient care on a 33-bed medical surgical telemetry unit for adult patients

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Pioneered first-annual HIV/AIDS awareness day health fair event.

Supervisor: Supervisor Military Retired/Contact Info Unknown (000-***-****)

Okay to contact this Supervisor: Contact me first

Ehrling Bergquist Hospital

2501 Capehart Road, Offutt Air Force Base

Offutt AFB, NE 68113 United States

02/1989 - 04/1992

Hours per week: 40

Clinical Nurse Medical Surgical/Critical Care Unit

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Clinical Nurse, Medical Surgical/Critical Care Unit (36-42 hrs/wk)

•Performed and coordinated clinical nursing care on a 36-bed medical surgical and 10-bed critical

care unit. Maintained individualized care plans, reports, and clinical records

Supervisor: Supervisor Military Retired Location Unknown (000-***-****)

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New York University Medical Center, New York

City, NY

550 First Avenue

New York, NY 10016 United States

09/1987 - 01/1989

Hours per week: 36

Graduate Student/Transitional Nurse Pgrm, Med-Surg/Telemetry/Oncology Unit

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills:

Graduate Student/Transitional Nurse Program, Med-Surg/Telemetry/Oncology Unit (40hrs/wk)

•Performed and coordinated clinical nursing care on a 38-bed unit providing hospice and palliative

care to patients with complex medical illnesses, end-stage cancer and AIDS

.Administered chemotherapy and pain management interventions

Supervisor: Unknown (000-***-****)

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Education:

Syracuse University School of Nursing Syracuse, NY United States

Master's Degree 08/1998

GPA: 3.78 of a maximum 4.0

Credits Earned: 37 Semester hours

Major: Primary Care Nursing Minor: Adult Nurse Practitioner

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Dec/2014 to Dec/2019 – National Certification Adult Nurse Practitioner

State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook Stony Brook/Long Island, NY United States

Bachelor's Degree 05/1988

GPA: 3.13 of a maximum 4.0

Credits Earned: 174 Semester hours

Major: Nursing

Relevant Coursework, Licenses and Certifications:

Licensure-Registered Nurse

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Job Related Training:

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

•Nurse professional with twenty five years of clinical/administrative experience

•Master of Science in Nursing: Area of concentration-primary care adult nurse practitioner

•Past experience as chief, education & training/staff development, nurse executive, deputy director medical operations,

manager-internal medicine, family practice, pediatric, and intensive care unit

•Professional nursing certificates: primary care health-adult nurse practitioner

•Air Force officer/military leadership training as graduate of Infection Control and Epidemiological Course (1995),

Squadron Officer School Air University Maxwell AFB Alabama (1996), Air Command and Staff College (2005), Health

Care Integrator (HCI)/Care Management Course Sheppard Air Force Base Texas (2005), Air War College (2007),

Intermediate Executive Skills Course San Antonio Texas (2009), Executive Leadership Course Dallas Texas (2011),

TRICARE Basic Course, Primary Care Optimization and Quality Improvement Air Force Course

•Current Licensure: Registered Nurse/Adult Nurse Practitioner (Washington District of Columbia) Expires Feb/2014

Language Skills:

Language Spoken Written Read

English Advanced Advanced Advanced

Spanish Intermediate None Novice

Affiliations:

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) - Organization Member

American Nurses Association (ANA) - Organization Member

References:

Name Employer Title Phone Email

Colonel United States Medical Squadron 301-633-

Hildegard Air Force Commander/Master 6570 acomy2@r.postjobfree.com

Stewart Clinician

LtCol Michelin United States Medical Squadron 618-593-

Joplin Air Force Commander/Chief 2510 acomy2@r.postjobfree.com

Nurse Executive

Nicholyn Nurse Practitioner 301-922-

Nicholson 6576

Colonel Sandra United States Chief Nurse 703-362-

Tynes Air Force Executive/Master 3491 acomy2@r.postjobfree.com

Clinician Indicates professional reference

Additional Information:

AWARDS

Adjunct Professor, Undergraduate School of Nursing Washington Trinity University/2009

Air Force Inspection Agency Accreditation Director Top Performer May/08

Strathmore’s Who’s Who of Advance Nurse Practitioner July/03

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