STACIE R. WARD-SANTANGELO

Oak Lawn, IL ***** • 312-***-**** • adi937@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Highly qualified, forward thinking Advanced Practice Nurse with extensive cardiology experience seeking to leverage my experience and clinical background to the next level of a rewarding ca- reer. I am well known for my compassionate personality, keen diagnostic abilities, fierce patient advocacy, and excellent rapport with the community, patients, and families as well as members of the healthcare team. I am self-directed with superior problem-solving, communication and management skills. I am highly motivated to improve outcomes for diverse patient populations as well as the health care organizations as a whole. SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL WORK HISTORY

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse/ Preceptor

Greatland Homecare - Naperville, IL 6/2020- Present

• Advanced Practice Knowledge & Skills to treat patients at home with various diagnoses

• Perform advanced assessment, medication review, and OASIS evaluation

• Manage patients at home with COVID-19, wounds, enteral feedings, central lines

• Collaborate with attending physicians to recommend and implement various treatments and changes in patients plan of care and reduce hospital readmissions

• Train and onboard new advanced practice nurses

• Work closely with company management to implement programs to reduce readmissions, improve work flow, and education programs

Registered Nurse

Green Key Resources- Health Care Division 06/2020- Present

• RN participating in research related to COVID-19 patients

• Advanced Level Diagnoses

• Critical Thinking

• Diffuses Stressful Situations

• Advanced Diagnostic Ability

• Interprets Medical Tests

• Leadership

• Mentor

• Problem Solving

• In depth knowledge of processes

• Research

• Treatment Planning

• EMR Superuser

• Patients following hospital discharge to assess, examine per designated study protocol

• Working in conjunction with Symphony Clinical Research Advanced Practice Registered Nurse/ Registered Nurse AMN Healthcare- Nurse Finders - St. Louis, MO 04/2020- Present

• APN/ RN Per Diem contract work during COVID-19 crisis

• Use Advanced Practice Knowledge and Skills to provide COVID crisis care to patient

• Accept assignments/ contracts based on needs of the institution or healthcare center Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Healthcare Consultants, LTD. - Oak Lawn, IL 10/2019- Present

• Use Advanced Practice Knowledge and Skills to examine efficiency, structure, and workflow of healthcare organizations

• Meet with corporations to identify gaps, areas of concern, poor performance

• Following analysis, suggest areas of improvement to promote efficiency and improved or- ganizational flow

• Assist healthcare corporations achieve improved patient satisfaction and employee reten- tion

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Northwestern Medicine - Chicago, IL 08/2013 - 10/2019

• Managed chronically ill patients with acute and chronic advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation patients.

• Independently saw 30-35 patients in clinic weekly including hospital discharge patients, follow up patients, urgent add on's, and new referrals to the system

• Collaborated with Heart Failure attending physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.

• Organized, implemented, and monitored the outpatient hemodynamic monitoring

• system which reduced hospital readmissions by 80% in the first year

• Managed patients with multiple co-morbidities such as hypertension, coronary artery dis- ease, vascular disease, CVA's, renal failure, sleep apnea, and diabetes

• Up-titrated GDMT and prescribed ancillary treatments such as social work evaluation, car- diac rehab, physical therapy, day rehab, palliative care, and home care.

• National speaker on Heart Failure and advanced disease processes.

• Elected to be on the "Thought Leaders Forum" for Heart Failure

• Designated preceptor and trainer for new hires in cardiology department

• Co-managed with cardiologist patients home inotrope therapies

• Worked on Quality programs for multiple departmental programs and HF readmits

• Consistently in 99% for patient satisfaction as rated by the Medical Staff Office

• Repeated acknowledgments from the president of the hospital for "Excellence in patient care"

• Served on the patient education and palliative care committees.

• Participated and actively involved in multiple research studies.

• Delivered high level of care and service to patients through non-traditional methods, including email, video chat/ face time, and online assessments. Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

UChicago Medicine - Chicago, IL 01/2012 - 07/2013

• Managed care of critically ill patients with advanced heart failure and pre/ post cardiac transplant.

• Delivered care for heart failure and cardiac transplant patients, including diagnosis, treatment, referral for consultation or specialty services, follow-up care, evening urgent care call and on-call emergency consultation.

• Maintained patient records and ensured patient privacy and clinical compliance, especially donor related issues

• Maintained SRTR database and maintained quality measures

• Worked collaboratively with attending physicians to manage complex immunosuppressive medications, order invasive and noninvasive testing post-transplant.

• Heart failure rounds daily with attending physicians..

• Worked with social work to help patients with financial issues to devise plans to aid in medication costs and initiate grants for these patients.

• Built trust and rapport with patients by listening to concerns, advocating for wellness and educating on acute and chronic health issues.

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Advocate Christ Medical Center - Oak Lawn, IL 02/2008 - 01/2012

• Independently managed acute & chronic heart failure patients-inpatient and outpatient

• Daily rounds and completed all advanced heart failure consultations on various hospital units and the ER

• Performed advanced physical exams, ordered, interpreted lab results, diagnostic tests, and up titrated guideline directed medications.

• Worked closely with medical students, residents, advanced HF fellows to manage patients.

• Customized treatment plans for heart failure patients based on response to therapies and collaboration with cardiologist.

• Quarterly APN meeting with advanced practice providers at the medical center to look at quality improvement, initiatives, and trends.

• Served on the hospital readmission committee.

• Worked with compliance department to ensure patients were initiated on guideline di- rected therapies for heart failure prior to discharge from the inpatient setting.

• Worked on the AHA initiative "Get with the Guidelines"

• Site selected for phase II trial for "CardioMEM's", responsible for patient selection, monitoring, changing therapies as indicated

Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Manager CHF Clinic St. Francis Hospital - Blue Island, IL 01/2006 - 02/2008

• Independently managed care of chronically ill heart failure patients

• Developed tailored care plans for each patient in collaboration with physicians

• Managed 10 nurses in the heart failure clinic including schedules, evaluations, continu- ing education, licensure requirements, and time off.

• Served as a resource to the patients, families and nurses in the clinic.

• Collaborated with local cardiologists to engage them to attract potential patients that would benefit from HF Clinic.

• Daily rounds in the inpatient setting to identify appropriate patients to HF Clinic

• Staff education (inpatient and outpatient) in recent trends, management of heart failure.

• Implemented "Aquapharesis ultrafiltration system" with staff cardiologist

• Reported directly to management and provided quarterly reports regarding out- comes, reduction in re-admissions, clinic enrollment, and new referrals Registered Professional Nurse

Rush University Medical Center - Chicago, IL 01/1998 - 01/2006

• Delivered outstanding expert care to patients with cardiac & vascular disease

• Managed patients both pre and post cardiac & vascular surgery.

• Responsible for "on call duties" after hours and on weekends

• Daily inpatient rounds with cardiac surgeon

• Independently managed cardiac surgery patients on the cardiac step down unit and surgical ICU while attending cardiac surgeons were in procedures.

• Performed wound care based on evidence based practice for cardiac & vascular surgery patients

• Participated in hospital-wide initiatives and committees to improve patient care, satisfaction, and safety.

• Co-organized a multi-center international cardiac surgery conference on mitral valve repair featuring Dr. Alain Carpentier.

• Organized "American Heart Walk" for Rush- personally raised over $50,000 for the American Heart Association & named ”AHA Walker of the Year"

• Attended graduate school while working full time, obtained advanced practice degree

• Advanced practice position created in cardiac surgery department and position changed from RN to APN in 2002

Registered Professional Nurse

UChicago Medicine - Chicago, IL 01/1994 - 01/1998

• Provided exceptional direct patient care in a high-acutity setting necesitating complex care such as telemetry, post cardiac surgery and cardiac intervention care.

• Monitored patient condition, including interpreting and tracking EKG readings, identifying irregular telemetry readings, and updating team members on changes in stability or acuity.

• Used first-hand knowledge and clinical expertise to advocate for patients under care and enacted prescribed treatment strategies.

• Partnered with physicians, social workers, physical therapists, nutritionists, and case man- agers to develop and implement individualized plans of care.

• Explained course of care and medications, including side effects to patients and caregivers in easy-to-understand terms.

• Unit Charge Nurse responsible for patient admissions and discharges, coordinating and maximizing bed utility, decreasing patient wait times in the ER or other observation areas.

• Coordinated and evaluated 30 staff nurses including daily assignments, training needs, and coordination of transfers/ new admissions.

• Unit preceptor responsible for training and supervising new graduates and new employees

• Worked on the policies, procedures, and products committee

• Recipient of Unit Preceptor Award.

• Recipient of the "Nurse of the Year Award" during Nurses Week EDUCATION

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care: Advanced Practice Nurse Masters of Science: Nursing Science

Rush University - Chicago, IL

• Majored in Nursing Science and Critical Care

• Residency hours completed at University of Chicago Bachelors of Science : Nursing Science

St. Xavier University - Chicago, IL

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS

Registered Professional Nurse in State of Illinois: License # 041-284578- Licensed Advanced Practice Nurse in the State Illinois: License #209-005000- Controlled Substance Licensure in State of Illinois DEA Licensure

Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist in Critical Care: Board Certification #C00-64-0136 Certified Advanced Heart Failure Nurse-Certification #HFN325965 Basic Life Support Certification (BLS)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification RESEARCH

• Instituted trial use of Blake Drains as an alternative to standard chest tubes for post opera- tive drainage plus greater patient comfort and ambulation enhancement for cardiovascular surgery patients.

• Study: "A Phase III, Multi-centered Randomized, Double Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of the EX Vivo Treatment with CGT003 of Coronary Vein Grafts in Patients Undergoing CABG procedure”, study performed to determine the efficacy of vein grafts pretreated with the E2F Decoy, CGT003, compared to placebo, incidence of patients experiencing vein graft failure.

• Study: "Myocardial Perfusion Evaluation Using Infra-Red Imaging during revascularization Surgery”. Research to evaluate the infrared camera catheter in coronary bypass surgery.

• Evaluate medial necrosis in patients with ascending aortic aneurysms with Dr. John Dai- nuskas- evaluating tissue samples.

• Study: "Home Telehealth Monitoring of Elderly Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Pilot Study".

• FDA approved study: "ATS Medical, Inc. Open Pivot Bileaflet Heart Valve".

• Study: Detection of Mannan Binding Lectin in atherosclerotic disease to evaluate whether Mannan Binding Lectin (MBL) has an association with early progression of atherosclerotic disease.

• Tissue sample analysis with Dr. John Faro to determine plaque origins (carotid, peripheral vessels, coronary arteries).

• Healthy Heart Group Presentations on topics including lab test interpretation, emerging technology in cardiology, heart transplant, and vitamin D research.

• Study: CHAMPION CardioMEM's heart sensor to allow monitoring pulmonary pressures to improve outcomes in NYHA Class III heart failure patients.

• Study: Immediate and Long term impact of vitamin D supplements on endothelial function and sub maximal exercise capacity in heart failure patients.

• Transit Study: to assess outcomes of pediatric cardiac transplant patients when undergoing

"re-education" of transplant medications and follow up care versus standard care (co-per- formed with Lurie Childrens Hospital).

• Study: LAPTOP-HF: to evaluate the safety and clinical effectiveness of use of a practitioner- directed, patient self-management system, guided by left atrial pressure measurements, for use in patients with heart failure.

• Initiation of IV furosemide in outpatient clinic setting trial and subsequent protocol devel- opment to have IV diuretics administered to avoid hospitalizations.

• Trial: COAPT in functional mitral regurgitation to assess in mitral valve repair improved pa- tient outcomes in NYHA Class III HF patients.

• Trial: DAPA HF: evaluate dapagliflozin (a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 [SGLT2] inhibitor) compared placebo among patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).

• Study: CardioMEM's post approval study: assess the feasibility of additional indications for implantation of the sensor in HF patients.

• Study: STEM 104 M-CHF: assess safety of human ischemia-tolerant allogeneic mesenchymal bone marrow cells (aMBMC) administered intravenously to subjects with heart failure of non ischemic etiology.

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