DAVID K. HIRSCH MSN, MBA, RN, FNHIA
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Registered Nurse
Highly skilled career professional with 24 years of experience in nursing. 10 years of Emergency Room / Critical Care experience throughout the United States. Facilities include the Johns Hopkins Hospital, UCSD Medical Center, Baton Rouge General Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Hospital San Diego, and Methodist Hospital San Antonio. 13 years experience in administrative roles including management of a medical/surgical unit, telemetry unit, multidisciplinary health center, inpatient vascular access team, free standing ambulatory infusion suites, mobile vascular access team, and home infusion team.
Leadership highlights include (but not limited to): team lead and core team members for multiple electronic medical record implementations; development of educational programing including comprehensive orientation programs with accompanying documentation, annual competency evaluations, developing educational tools for patient teaching using voice of the customer, and developing a home chemotherapy certification course awarded CEU credits by the Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing; creating and maintaining the first mobile vascular access team of it’s kind providing services to patients in alternative care settings including the home while maintaining a CLABSI rate of zero for 7 years; developing as part of the project team 3 unregulated free standing ambulatory infusion suites and maintaining oversight of each; Increasing team employee engagement mean score from 3.68 to 4.28 in under 1 year; Maintaining Press Ganey satisfaction Top Box score of 85% or greater for nursing components.
Skilled in the management of a large remote work force providing complex services to patients in 3 different states and the District of Columbia; maintaining fiscal responsibility for all aspects of a global budget, presenting on the national level at the National Home Infusion Association Annual Meeting and maintaining a seat on the education committee; appointed to represent the home infusion industry with the Community Health Accreditation Partner in developing regulations for CMS to bill home infusion services in the Community
CREDENTIALS – CERTIFICATIONS – SPECIALTY SKILLS
Maryland State Nursing Licensure R135404
Green Belt Course Completion; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety &
Quality
Managers Cohort Course Completion; the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Completion of the Power of Positive Leadership; The Maryland Healthcare
Education Institute
Fellow National Home Infusion Association; National Home Infusion Association 2021, Named as a national fellow in inaugural class.
Exp 2023
October 2012
2010
2008
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director of Nursing Services
2017-Present
The Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Baltimore, Maryland
Adult Infusion Nurse Manager
2009 - Present
The Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, Baltimore, Maryland
Clinical Manager 4 South / 4 North / 6 North Telemetry / IV Therapy
2007-2009
Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
Nurse Manager / Facility Administrator
2005-2007
Walker Jones Health Center with Unity Health Care,,Washington D.C.
ER/ICU Traveling Nurse
1999-2005
Various facilities within the continental U.S.
Nurse Clinician I and II Expert
1997-1999
NCCU and the Outpatient Adult and Pediatric PACU, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
EDUCATION
Master of Science Nursing, Masters of Business Administration
2011
The University of Phoenix, Online
Bachelors of Science in Nursing 1997
The Catholic University of America; Washington D.C.
AFFILIATIONS
Infusion Nurses Society
2009 - Present
American Vascular Association
2007 - Present
RECOGNITIONS
Manager of the Year
2011
The Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
Eagle Scout 1993
The Boys Scouts of America
The Johns Hopkins Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Team 2018/2019
The Johns Hopkins Home Care Group
PUBLICATIONS
Perspectives on central-line-associated bloodstream infection surveillance in home infusion therapy
2019
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
The Role of a Mobile Vascular Access Team in the Home Infusion Industry 2019
Infusion Magazine
Vascular Access Option in Alternative Care Setting 2019
Infusion Magazine
Environmental exposures and the risk of central venous catheter complications and readmissions in home infusion therapy patients 2017
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol.
Rates of and risk factors for adverse drug events in outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy 2018
Clinical Infectious Disease
References Available Upon Request