Registered Nurse, ED experience, management experience

Susan Wooddell

**** *** ****** ***** / *** Lawn, Il 60453 / 708-***-****

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Professional Summary

Experienced Registered Nurse with over 25 years experience. Recent management experience in sub-acute and long term, and Memory Care Assisted Living nursing care settings. Worked with my team members to achieve a favorable annual survey report in a challenged facility. Updated clinical skills of direct care nursing staff. Eliminated use of agency staffing during the COVID pandemic. Transitioned facility from paper charting to using an EMR. Instituted a culture of accountability within facility. Travelled across the country to provide teaching to nurses and anesthesiologists on new medical equipment. Provided care to patients in a high stress, fast paced emergency department for 9 years. Obtained Restorative Certification and Infection Preventionist and Control Certificate.

Work History

Director of Nursing/Terra Vista of Oak Brook Terrace/January 2020 to Present

●Managed 102 employees in Direct Nursing Care. Oversaw clinical operation of 106 bed facility

●Eliminated use of agency staffing

●Implemented protocols throughout COVID pandemic

●Implemented a system to reduce spread of COVID throughout facility during height of pandemic, resulting in low numbers of affected residents and deaths in comparison to nearby facilities

●Maintained open communication with family members throughout COVID pandemic to reduce resident/family depression and/or anxiety response

●Converted charting and medication pass over to an Electronic Medical Record

●Updated careplans and created a template for future careplans to be created from

Assistant Director of Nursing/St. Patrick’s Residence/July 2018 to September 2019

●Managed 150+ employees in Direct Nursing Care. Oversaw clinical operations of 180+ bed sub-acute care facility

●Implemented a system for providing necessary training and for holding Facility staff and agency staff accountable

●Evaluated staffing assignments and solved issues daily

●Assumed the role of Infection Control Preventionist

●Implemented routines for staff in order to maintain compliance with infection control

●Implemented environmental rounds

●Instituted InfectionWatch

●Prepared the facility and assisted with Annual Survey, resulting in 6 minor deficiencies

●Assisted in re=establishing a proper running restorative program.

Resident Care Services Director/ Providence Life Services/ October 2017 - July 2018

●Interview and hire new employees to reduce the need for agency use

●Assess potential new residents and determine appropriate level of care

●Reassess residents for readmission, change of condition, or annual assessments

●Build relationships with residents and their families

●Achieved a deficiency free annual survey

●Improved acuity training

●Reduced rate of rehospitalization

●Reduced employe overtime and essentially eliminated agency use

Nurse Clinician/ A Healthier Life/ June 2017- September 2017

● Overseen patients participating in a homeopathic detoxification/weight loss program

Director of Nursing/ Sava Senior Care/ May 2016 - February 2017

●Managed 92+ employees in Direct Nursing Care. Oversaw clinical operations of 100+ bed sub-acute care facility

●Developed staffing matrix to maintain a desired PPD

●Dealt directly with IDPH surveyors and completed all visits with only minor concerns

●Worked with administrator and successfully improved the financial situation of the facility

●Achieved 6 minimal deficiencies in Annual Survey as opposed to the 11+ serious deficiencies received the year prior

●Reduced rate of rehospitalizations

●Worked with team in turning the financial deficit of $8 Million to a profit of $25,000 in less than 8 months time

Nurse Educator/ Hospira/ December 2015 - May 2016

●Instructed nurses and anesthesiologists how to work new medical equipment

●Traveled across the United States to various settings to teach

Registered Nurse/ Advocate/ June 2005 - November 2015

●Provided hands-on patient care in high stress, fast paced Level One Trauma Emergency

Department for over 9 years

●Managed a caseload of 3 to 15 patients at one time within a shift

●Admitted and discharged patients continuously within a shift

●Assisted in conscious sedation procedures

●Expertise in placing IV catheters

●Assisted in opening and maintaining a successful geriatric section of the emergency department

●Provided care to telemetry patients prior to working the emergency department

Education History

Bachelor of Science in Nursing/ St. Xavier's University/ January 1995

●Magna Cum Laude

Associate in Arts Degree/ Moraine Valley Community College/ December 1990

Other Relevant History

Experienced with Office Management, Procuring Clients, Marketing, Customer Service and Sales . Knowledgeable with Point Click Care and Microsoft Office.

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