Nursing Instructor/Quality Assurance Manager/Informatics Nurse

Valerie Tarte MSN, RN

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cabarrus College of Health Science August 2015 Present

Clinical Instructor for ADN Program

South Piedmont Community College July 2015 Present

Adjunct Instructor for Nursing Assistant (I and II)/Adjunct Instructor for Nursing

• Educate the Nurse Aide I and II students to function under an RN regarding age specific patient care by lecture, use of nursing assistant skills, and performing proper patient care in the healthcare setting.

• Responsible for instructing Medical/Surgical clinical rotations to nursing students; Responsible for teaching the students how to properly administer medications, provide routine patient assessments, enhance their critical thinking abilities, compile proper documentation, and utilize their resources for proper patient care and safety.

McKesson July 2008 March 2015

Manager Quality Automation April 2014 March 2015

• Responsible for managing Paragon’s Product Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Team of full time, contractor and offshore employees that participates in Healthcare Software loading in identified environments, End user access, Smoke testing (both manually and through test script execution), Detailed Test Case Design, Execution and Reporting of Test results.

• Manage seventeen Automation resource’s, schedules, and workload assignments to ensure projects and software releases are completed on schedule with acceptable product quality.

• Maintain excellent rapport with Automation Teams, Onsite and Offshore, and address all QA needs in a timely fashion.

• Work as a Liaison between Application Developers, QA analysts, Software Engineers and System Engineers.

• Identify testing Defects daily through automated tests and track them to closure

• Conduct Test Scenarios review with QA analysts

• Overseeing the management of the test automation framework

• Involvement in release cycles involving multiple products to ensure accurate, timely, and tested releases are implemented into the QA environment then onto the customer production environment

• Design, develop, maintain, document and execute a portfolio of detailed automated and manual test scripts in the ALM environment.

• Develop clear, accurate and timely test plans and release findings

Develop an in depth understanding of the systems, components, applications and the databases to be tested and deployed

• Keep abreast of QA practices and tools, assess their applicability to the team’s objectives, and champion their implementation

• Hosting an unpaid internship with a Professional Master of Science in Nursing Informatics degree student through Duke University.

Manager Paragon Product Quality May 2009 – April 2014

• Responsible for managing Paragon's Product Quality Assurance (QA) Clinical Team of full time and contractor employees.

• Manage twenty six QA resources, schedules, and workload assignments to ensure projects and software releases are completed on schedule with acceptable product quality.

• Responsible for hiring and negotiating salaries for Full Time Employees, Contract to Hire Employees and Statement of Work contractors.

• Responsible for on boarding, mentoring, conducting bimonthly 1:1 meetings, full staff meetings, performance planning, and disciplinary actions for staff.

• Manage Pilot customer’s (customers who test and use software not currently available to the general public) educational needs, functionality questions, working service orders (issues), creating and identifying work items (bug fixes) and testing software.

• Hosting an unpaid internship with a Professional Science Master, Health Informatics degree student through UNC Charlotte.

• Write ad hoc reports to assist our internal Project Management team in identifying and managing our Pilot customers ‘go live’ issues to resolution and developing Metrics reporting for senior management.

• Partner with our development/configuration management department for scheduling .dot releases (minor releases usually on a bimonthly basis) and major software releases.

• Resolve customer escalations by collaborating with all areas of the Paragon Business Unit (development, product management and support).

• Participate in and assist with resolving production issues when necessary

• Current Projects completed are: Physician Documentation, ED Clinicals, ARRA Quality Measures Stage 1, Mobile Phlebotomy, CPOE Phase II (fully processed orders), Rules Engine Phase 1, Prescription Writer, e Prescribing, Horizon Migration.

• Current Projects at time of job change: Physician Mobile Tablet, Physician Mobile Phone, Physician Clinician Hub, ARRA Quality Measures Stage 2, and Zynx.

Quality Assurance/Nursing Analyst III July 2008 May 2009

• Responsible for quality assurance software testing for the Paragon Medication Administration, Pharmacy and Clinical Care Station applications.

• Served as Project Lead on the newly enhanced Paragon Medication Administration product.

• Evaluated and tested new or modified software programs and software development procedures used to verify that programs functioned according to user requirements and conformed to established guidelines.

• Wrote, revised and verified test cases that met quality standards such as patient safety, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability.

• Reviewed new or modified programs, including documentation, diagrams and flowcharts, to determine if programs would perform according to user requests and conform to guidelines.

• Tested programs for validity of results, accuracy, reliability, and conformance to establishment standards.

• Conducted compatibility tests with vendor provided programs.

• Provided secondary support to Support and Implementation departments.

Carolinas Healthcare System November 2007 July 2008

Information Systems Applications Specialist Intermediate

• Responsible for designing and building for all types of testing and implementation of Cerner’s PowerChart (electronic documentation system) at participating hospitals in a multi system HealthCare provider.

• Was an Analyst on the EPACT team (electronic patient care transformation) Acute Clinical Documentation and Orders team.

• Supported seven customers in the Carolinas HealthCare System network who were ‘LIVE’ with the documentation system, focused on impacting the hospital ancillary departments.

• Met with customers regularly to ensure their departmental needs were addressed.

• Was responsible for detailed patient care charting on how to build ‘if then’ orders for the respiratory and cardiovascular departments to assist customers in setting up their areas for optimized workflow.

• Designed and tested Powerforms and interactive views used for documentation.

• Aggressive at meeting timelines related to projects; excellent leadership skills.

Wakemed Health and Hospitals O ctober 2000 October 2008

Systems Analyst II J anuary 2005 October 2008

• Responsible for all aspects of the Surgical Services Information Systems supporting three facilities. Monitored and participated in the educational process for use of the electronic documentation system in training new hires, providing refresher classes, and training staff on new system functionality.

• Maintain system security; ensured policies and procedures were current and implemented.

• Represent departmental needs during system design for all documentation and testing.

• Coordinate hardware and software component integration.

• Interact with HBOC (HBO & Company) as required to maintain system.

• Manage project teams to implement system upgrades.

• Participate in monthly budget reports and yearly capital budget planning.

• Present monthly statistics at Physician ‘OR Block Utilization’ meetings.

• Beta partner with Utech for nursing documentation and materials/financial charging. Supported McKesson Products (software maintenance and server management): Horizon Surgical Manager (HSM) system (nursing documentation, patient charging and supply management), Pathways Healthcare Scheduling (PHS) system (enterprise scheduling system), and implementation of Horizon Surgical Manager Patient tracking and implementation of the Utech product EndoSoft (surgical endoscopy and bronchoscopy documentation and patient charging system).

• Gain Crystal Report writing and Crystal Enterprise experience with multiple SQL databases.

Systems Analyst I J uly 2001 January 2005

• Supported two large urban emergency services departments in the use of IT applications in order to maximize departmental performance and management decision making.

• Took action to improve system and department performance, departmental efficiencies and reduced problems/errors.

• Managed projects for the development of departmental IT business solution.

• Coordinated project teams to implement system upgrades. Served as an information technology consultant to departmental management and staff for purposes of decision support, staff training and problem resolution.

• Participated in capital budget planning.

• Directly trained staff members (Nursing, Ancillary and Physician) in the use of the departmental electronic documentation system and the hospital ordering system.

• Built Physician Documentation templates and developed optimal workflow regarding their documentation processes while working closely with Physicians for more complete, concise patient care documentation.

• Assisted with the department’s CPOE build and implementation.

• Supported Pyxis Medication carousels and Supply Stations, McKesson Centramax (Call Center Software), SMS Invision/OAS Gold (Hospital Documentation/Order Entry System), HMED (HealthMatics Emergency Department documentation software; Beta Testing Partners), Cognos (Report Writing Software), and Teleform (Patient Charges).

• Assisted departmental Preceptor in teaching ED Core class information.

Clinical Educator/Supervisor October 2000 July 2001

• Supervised over 30 nurses, secretaries, interpreters, and nursing assistants and evaluated all patient related activities directly and indirectly.

• Was responsible for departmental staff scheduling (nurses, nursing assistants, secretaries, interpreters), staff evaluations and oversaw work assignments.

• Prioritized and reorganized assigned projects when unit demands/patient acuity increased.

• Carried out performance communications and identified clinical deficiencies, and initiated corrective action through counseling and educational methods.

• Developed staff skills in problem identification through active participation.

• Encouraged personal/professional growth including development of strong leadership behavior in staff.

Loris Community Hospital January 2000 October 2000

Emergency Services Charge Nurse/Staff Nurse

• Facilitated organization and leadership in a high acuity patient care area by triaging patient placement upon arrival, initiating standing orders when necessary and assigning staff to treatment areas.

• Demonstrated effective coping and critical thinking skills.

• Delivered comprehensive nursing to patients and their family members through the implementation of a plan of care based on the patient’s developmental and health care needs identified through the assessment of the patient’s physical, psychological, and socioeconomic status.

• Patient care included but was not limited to: triaging, trauma, assessments, medication administration, ventilator maintenance, blood replacement, venipuncture, catheters, dressing changes, cardiac monitoring, central line maintenance, blood draws.

Grand Strand Regional Medical Center September 1999 January 2000

Surgical ICU Staff Nurse

• Delivered comprehensive nursing care to patients and their family members through the implementation of a plan of care based on the patient’s developmental and health care needs identified through the assessment of the patient’s physical, psychological, and socioeconomic status.

• Patient care included but was not limited to: assessments, medication administration, central line maintenance (Swan Ganz, triple lumen), balloon pumps, ventilator maintenance, blood replacement, ABG draws, venipuncture, catheters, dressing changes, cardiac monitoring, blood draws.

Southeastern Regional Medical Center July 1998 September 1999

Emergency Services Staff Nurse

• Worked collaboratively with a variety of healthcare individuals and disciplines.

• Delivered comprehensive nursing to patients as well as family members based on their developmental and health care needs identified through the assessment of their physical, psychological, socioeconomic status.

• Focused on patient advocacy, maintaining confidentiality.

• Skills included but were not limited to: triaging, trauma, assessments, medication administration, venipuncture, catheters, blood replacement, dressing changes, cardiac monitoring, central line maintenance, blood draws.

Barton College February 2003 December 2004

Clinical Nursing Instructor

• Responsible for instructing Medical/Surgical clinical rotations to Junior Level nursing students; Responsible for teaching the students how to properly administer medications, provide routine patient assessments, enhance their critical thinking abilities, compile proper documentation, and utilize their resources for proper patient care and safety.

Wake Technical Community College September 2002 December 2004

Nursing Assistant I Clinical Instructor

• Educated the Nurse Aide I student to function under an RN regarding age specific patient care by lecture, use of nursing assistant skills, and performing proper patient care in the hospital setting.

AFFILIATIONS

• Graduate of the WakeMed Leadership Academy 2007

• Sigma Theta Tau International Member Beta Epsilon Chapter

• Phi Kappa Phi Member East Carolina Chapter

• Duke University School of Nursing Informatics Advisory Board Member 2002 2004 • International Nurses Association

• American Nurses Association (ANA)

• Golden Key National Honor Society

CERTIFICATIONS

• Registered Nurse (RN)

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification

EDUCATION

Duke University2 001

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) Management; Post Master's certificate in Nursing Informatics

East Carolina University 1998

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

• Julie Phipps, RN, MSN contributor with Val Tarte, RN, MSN. A Bit of Informatics Advice, 10.1 and 11.3, The Nursing Informatics Implementation Guide by Eleanor Hunt, Sara Sproat, and Rebecca Kitzmiller. Springer Verlag, New York, 2004 (paperback 2010).

• Julie Phipps, RN, MSN presenter with Val Tarte, RN, MSN, Forty Mouse Clicks to One: Strategies for Successfully Implementing CPOE. Peer reviewed paper presentation, Summer Institute for Nursing Informatics, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, July, 2003.

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