OBJECTIVE: A growth focused, award winning nurse offering over 35 years of nursing experience seeking a position in a collaborative environment, where I can use my leadership skills to deliver extraordinary talent as well as to fulfill your organizations missions, goals and visions.

Maxim Healthcare/ Guadalupe Union School District Guadalupe, California

District School Nurse November 2020-Present

Serving as a COVID expert for the school system and work in conjunction with Santa Barbara Public Health Department in California.

Health education to parents and their families in the community through ParentSquare an online news letter to parents.

Assess physical and psychosocial needs of students and make appropriate nursing interventions.

Maintains inventory of medical supplies, medications; ensures that the district schools are properly supplied with equipment and COVID quarantine supplies.

Serve as a health representative of the total school health program under the administrative direction of the site principal.

Act as a liaison between schools, community health-care providers, parents and students.

Function as a health resource within the school setting, providing various aspects of health education, conducting instruction in the classroom to teachers as well as students.

Record and maintain a cumulative health records of students and school personnel who are injured and ill.

Record and maintain a cumulative health record on all students; maintain immunization records on all students and prepare annual reports; review all immunization records, emergency cards, health problems and maintain legally-required records.

Perform various state-mandated screenings at the appropriate grade level and counsel and refer parents when appropriate, to available agencies for further assistance.

Participate, in conjunction with the Special Education Program, in the development of individualized educational and related services to students as directed in the IEP.

Report any suspected child abuse as required by law.

Conduct instruction class for Blood Borne Pathogens, Universal Precautions, and Medication Administration.

Exclude students with contagious or infectious diseases or infestations and monitor readmittance.

Identify the safety and health hazards on school sites.

Community Educator to parents, students, staff and administrators on various heath related topics especially COVID and related issues and COVID Vaccinations.

Maxim Healthcare / Santa Barbara Public Health Department San Luis Obispo, California

RN COVID Vaccination Nurse November 2020-Present

Maintain vaccine supplies and inventory and manage storage and handling of vaccines,

Administer vaccines.

Complete/Process required documentation and reporting,

Manage/supervise staff to ensure second-dose reminders occur.

Educate and counsel patients and their families on procedures, medical care and sensitive health issues, including need for follow up; provide informational literature and make referrals to mental health, social services and other agencies as needed.

Prepare and maintain a variety of pertinent records reflecting patient’s condition, medication and treatment, and other records required by state and federal governments,

Assist in the orientation and training of professional and nonprofessional personnel in specific clinic operations and, as necessary, technical procedures,

Maintain inventory of medical supplies, medications, and vaccines; ensure that examination and/or consultation rooms are properly equipped and supplied, and other related duties as assigned.

Elite Experts Tucson, Arizona

Medical Surgical Legal Expert April 2019-Present

●Medical Surgical Expert in the field of nursing.

●Support the legal team ensuring compliance and regulatory record accuracy.

●Manages quality review and report of client’s medical file in accordance with the legal system.

●Working knowledge of security requirements especially related to HIPAA and privacy standards.

●Performs leadership and management by providing services to attorneys in other practices and regulatory agencies.

●Provide expert medical opinion for depositions for trial.

●Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and responsibility.

●Assumes a management responsibility during assigned cases.

●Leading witness in negligence claims.

●Prepare legal research and collect information pertaining to medical malpractice case.

●Prepare affidavits of merit in malpractice cases.

●Perform legal research and collect information pertaining to the case.

●Educate attorneys and clients regarding relevant medical issues.

Santa Barbara Business College Santa Barbara, California

Full Time Nursing Faculty/ Clinical Instructor March 2019-May 2020

●Provide project leadership to fulfill the Board of Nursing commitment to provide quality service.

●Oversees all nursing activities, including data capture, analysis of their quality of care and communication to appropriate staff.

●Excellent leadership, public speaking and oral communication skills. Directs, manages, and provides nursing leadership to nursing students.

●Clinical Instructor for all rotations in nursing for the Junior and Senior nursing students with the primary focus in Medical Surgical Nursing.

●Ensuring departmental and institutional standards are maintained in the other healthcare facilities.

●Evaluate performance with both Junior and Senior level of nursing students.

●Developing training materials, managing training files, and evaluating trends based on quality systems to develop recursive training when necessary.

●Responsible for managing nursing lecture and the development and delivery of training curriculum for both Junior and Senior level LVN students.

●Oversee students’ lab and clinical areas of practice.

●Serve as a mentor on academic and career issues.

●Lecture on several topics including fundamentals of nursing, community health care, anatomy and physiology and pharmacology.

Healthcare Marketing Network Member Santa Maria, California

Healthcare Writer July 2018 – Present

●Member of a closed group of community freelance medical writers. Our mission is to the quality of health-related information.

●Prepare abstracts, scientific exhibits, posters and verbal presentations.

●Develop and write pharmaceutical training materials, E-Learning content, video scripts and presentations to be used by a variety of audiences.

●Ensure that all deliverables are in accordance with regulations, standards, and guidelines for FDA or regulatory agencies.

●Extensive knowledge of English grammar with a familiarity with a standard style guide.

●Ability to communicate scientific or medical information in a clear and concise manner.

●Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Email, and the Internet.

●Familiarity with the principles of clinical research and developing educational materials for educational purposes.

●Current on literature, emerging science, technological developments and medical trends especially COVID 19.

Osiris Therapeutics Columbia, MD

Senior Quality Assurance Trainer April 2017 –March 2019

●Manages quality reviews, quality reports and plans to team members and coordinates training and program development.

●Provides leadership and direction on quality assurance, internal and external communications to achieve program expectations.

●Conducts QA activities to ensure quality metrics.

●Develop ongoing employee refresher training and coordinate all corporate training initiatives.

●Interact with managers to coordinate program improvements, plan for changes, and communicate issues identified from QA.

●Responsible for managing the corporate training system and the development and delivery of training curriculum for new hire training and development, customer service, quality control, and quality assurance.

●Develop a computerized training system for staff development training focusing on OSHA Regulations as well as FDA requirements, Infectious Disease, Documentation System and the Quality Control System.

●Develop and implemented annual training materials, manage training files, and evaluating trends based on quality systems to develop recursive training when necessary.

●Evaluated staff learning by developing test and measuring tools.

●Expert in OSHA, FDA as well as The American Association of Tissue Banks regulations.

Well Advantage Sykesville, MD

Nurse/ Health Educator/Health Coach August 2016 –April 2017

●Performed health risk assessments, and vitals testing on employees of governmental agencies and contract companies.

●Developed and maintained cooperative working relationships with agencies and organizations interested in public health education.

●Educated on Medical/ Surgical diagnosis as well as procedures to the community on specific issues that pertained to their specific health issues.

●Designed and administered health training programs for new employees and continuing education for existing employees for the governmental agencies as well as privately owned companies.

●Performed public health teaching on various subject matter to the employees and reinforced any health concerns after risk assessment was completed.

Consign Med, Inc. Fort Worth, TX

Clinical Specialist/Medical Device Educator June 2016 – April 2017

●Overseeing ongoing development of customer experience, quality, and training to meet changes in policy, process, customer evolution, and industry expectations.

●Providing training in accordance with quality safety measures and accordance with state and federal regulations.

●Provide education through in-services and educational demonstrations to Health Care Professionals in various departments of nursing as well other medical departments.

●Peer to peer educational programs within various territories.

●Partnering with sales management to profile future accounts, resolve customer issues and initiate

clinical discussions with all staff.

●Worked with various companies educating their clients on specific products according to FDA regulations.

University of Maryland Medical System – Midtown Campus Baltimore, MD

Medical Surgical Educator May 2009 – April 2013

●Nominated for 2010 Educator of the Year.

●Served as a Quality Improvement Expert in chart review for medical and documentation errors for the Quality Control Committee.

●Served as an Educational Expert for Quality Control Committee.

●Developed, coordinated and conducted hospital wide performance improvement education.

●Worked collaboratively with the quality manager to identify areas to implement risk reduction strategies, ensure patient safety and demonstrate proactive improvement.

●Developed content, trained and implemented programs with physicians, surgeons, nurses and medical staff based on real time reviews of cases monthly.

●Compiled, analyzed and communicated data from audits to leaders and to develop and implement a solution to maintain compliance.

●Trainer for Meditech, Heath Stream and EPIC systems for Hospital Wide Training Systems.

●Served as an Educational Expert for the Laboratory Department.

●Introduced education to nursing staff on Person Centered Practices in the medical environment.

●Designed, developed, and implemented Hospital-Wide Training, Core Training, and Unit-System Based trainings, including EMR training and Fall Protocol Training System.

●Served as an Educational Expert for Joint Commission and Medicare Policy.

●Served as an Educational Expert for The Nurses Improving Care for Elders.

●Developed, implemented and recorded research data for Bedside Reporting in medical and surgical settings.

●Educator for several hospital unit, including Medical/Surgical, Gerontology, Telemetry, and Infectious Disease.

●Served as Presenter for the Maryland Chapter of Medical Surgical Nurses Conferences from 2009-2013.

●Leadership mentor for senior nursing students.

●Assisted with interviews, hiring, training and counseling staff.

●Maintain nursing staff by recruiting, selecting, and helping with orientation process and training.

The Copper Ridge Institute Sykesville, MD

Project Manager/ Community Nurse Educator October 2006 - May 2009

●Assigned the top leadership role for the Stulman Foundation grant for $ 250,000.

●Performed data researched, collected and reported related data of the training and success of the program for the underserved of Baltimore City in Maryland.

●Developed and Implemented training for the underserved and their caregivers regarding Alzheimer’s Disease as well as dementia.

●Presented at a National Level at the 2008 National Gerontological Association regarding the grant and the success of educating the community of the disease process and how to care for their loved one.

●Collaborated with the Baltimore City Police Department to develop and implement a training program for cadet and police officer trainings on Alzheimer’s and Dementia.

●Executed, designed, operated, and maintained a research and education position in elderly neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Dementia in conjunction with the Copper Ridge Institute and the John Hopkins University School of Medicine.

●Executed program presentations as well as partnered with the community organized and funded groups, church led groups, medical and health professionals, city council members, police department, commission on aging and departments for the underserved and other community funded professionals.

University of Maryland School of Nursing Baltimore, MD

Adjunct Faculty/Nursing Instructor January 2004 January 2005

●Rendered direct assistance in creating curriculum, course work, and materials.

●Effectively conducted performance evaluations and student orientation.

●Clinical Instructor for Summer Session in Medical and Surgical, Orthopedic, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gastrointestinal and Cardiac Care

●Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

●Kept abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

●Planed, evaluated, and revised curriculum, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Sinai Hospital Baltimore, MD

Part-Time Nurse Educator January 2003-January 2005

●Educated and certified New Orientees on Skills sets as well as BLS and IV certification.

●Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

●Kept abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.

●Plan, evaluate, and revise curriculum, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Howard Community College Columbia, MD

Adjunct Faculty/ Nursing Instructor August 2002 -June 2006

●Supervised nursing students in classroom and clinical instruction, skills laboratory, and hospital setting teaching environments.

●Designed and delivered curriculum, course work, and materials to nursing students, specializing in medical surgical nursing, genitourinary, and gastrointestinal systems.

●Nursing Clinical Instructor for various specialties: Orthopedics, Urology, Neurology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical and Surgical, Geriatric, Cardiology, Oncology, Psychology.

●Received the 2004 Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award for Exemplary Performance.

Hospice of Baltimore Towson, MD

Hospice Home Care Nurse April 1999-May 2002

●Performed palliative care for end of life patients.

●Educated families on the disease process and the end of life issues.

●Collaborate with other health care professionals to develop and revise treatment plans based on identified needs and assessments.

●Document patients' treatment plans, interventions, outcomes, and plan revisions.

●Assess family adaptation levels and coping skills to determine whether intervention is needed.

●Coordinate patient care conferences.

●Identify patients' age-specific needs and alter care plans as necessary to meet the needs of the patient as well as the family.

●Preceptor for new hire RN for field home care.

John Hopkins University Medical Center Baltimore, MD

Staff Nurse II- Trauma October 1996-April 1999

●Clinical Charge Nurse on evening and 12-hour day shift.

●Head of the Code Team.

●Oversee daily functioning of the unit directing admissions discharges and general patient flow.

●Assign nurses and support staff to patient care while meeting the daily goals of the unit.

●Facilitating nurse’s involvement in rounds as well as treatments and procedures were ordered for patients.

●Ensure that bedside hand offs take place at the change of shift and that charge hand off is completed

●Maintain patient care consistent with the missions, value and operating principles of the department of nursing and the hospital.

●Member of the Health Care Advocacy Team to support the patient and their family during crisis.

●Participate in Quality committee and Documentation committee.

●Performed RN duties for critically ill cardiac, cardio-thoracic, transplants, vascular, oncology, plastics, and neurological/neurosurgical patients.

●Experience in Level 1 center care, managing hot unloads from Flight for Life, caring for critically injured trauma patients, including motor vehicle collisions, falls, gunshot wounds, neurological insults, among others.

The Centers for the Handicapped, Inc Silver Spring, MD

Nurse Consultant January 1990- January 1996

●Developed a Patient Centered Program for support staff.

●State of Maryland certified to educate and supervise support staff to administer medication administration to Developmentally Disabled community.

●Developed and implemented a medication administration course for residential staff.

●Supervised the medical support staff living and working within our community.

●Assisted in the integration of services and support to our community.

●Developed and implemented OSHA, State and Regulatory training to staff.

●Addressed medical and psychosocial issues regarding care of the client.

●Developed and implemented a Person/ Client Centered program for medical staff focusing on the needs of the individual.

●Performed routine safety visits to residential homes.

The George Washington University Medical Washington, DC

Staff Nurse I/ Staff Nurse II May 1985-December 1989

●Staff Nurse I and Staff Nurse II for Cardiac Care Patients.

●Charge Nurse during assigned shifts.

●Assign nurses and support staff to patient care while meeting the daily goals of the unit.

●Facilitating nurse’s involvement in rounds as well as treatments and procedures were ordered for patients.

●Assign staff meal breaks.

●Member of the Care Plane Committee.

● Member of the Code Committee.

●Member of the Chart Review Committee.

●Member of the Education Committee.

●Maintain patient care consistent with the missions, value and operating principles of the department of nursing and the hospital.

●Support the patient s healthcare team as an advocate for the patient and their family.

●Participate in hospital committees and task forces as requested.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:

Agape Mental Health Severna Park, MD

Nurse Consultant/Educator January 2005 – January 2016

●Facilitated trauma, chronic pain, and illness management in partnership with other healthcare professionals to improve care quality for Alzheimer’s and Dementia patients.

●Collaborated with community agencies and services for patients.

●Cooperated with a team in providing assessment and treatment plans.

National Center for Citizen’s Safety Ellicott City, MD

Grant Writer/ Trainer January 2016 – January 2017

●Coordinated the planning and preparation of grant proposals.

●Developed and maintained specialized databases and systems for recording and tracking grant proposals, awards, and related statistical information.

●Educated the community about preparation strategies and survival tactics, as well as survival resources in acts of domestic terrorism.

Baltimore City Police Department Baltimore, MD

Health Educator/ Director and Coordinator January 2010 – April 2013

●Developed and implemented the medical view of the youth program for the underserved community of Baltimore City, which focused on the “Effects Drugs Have on Your Body.”

●Developed constructive and cooperative working relationships with the police department, Board of Education, and the nationally recognized D.A.R.E program.

●Worked with the Baltimore City School System to continue the program to educate the youth of the city.

EDUCATION:

Glendale Career College Glendale, California

Principles of the Adult Learners February 2019

The Catholic University of America Washington, D.C.

Bachelor of Science: Nursing May 1985

Honors: Four-year Academic Scholarship

Activities: George Washington University Medical Center (student nurse intern); Special Olympics (volunteer); Planned Parenthood (volunteer); Kappa Tau Gamma (Alumni Member).

AWARDS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

●Nominated for Educator of the Year for 2010 at The University of Maryland Medical Center. Presenter for the Medical/ Surgical Nurses Conference for 2009-2013.

●2004 Adjunct Faculty of the Year Award for Exemplary Excellence.

●Presenter for the National Gerontological Conference in 2008.

●Awarded $ 250,000 Stulman Foundation Grant for Community Education to the Underserved of Baltimore City.

●Faculty Member for the John Hopkins School of Medicine.

AFFILIATIONS:

National Medical Surgical Certification Review Board; Joint Commission Survey Safety Committee Board of the National Quality Infection Committee (member and educational expert); Nurse Leadership Committee; American Heart Association, Basic Life Support instructor); Medical Surgical Nurses Association; Member of the Maryland Watercolor Society

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