RN/MSN Project Coordinator Nurse Educator

KARLA LEFFLER, BSN. MSN. RN.

*** **** **** ****** ****** IL UNITED STATES

PHONE: 309/338-6776

EMAIL: ************@*****.***

RN Illinois License Number: 041322851

SUMMARY Nursing CAREER EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

Graduation: 2000 BSN from St. Francis Medical Center College of Nursing (SFCON), started my nursing career. What was my favorite rotation? Community Nursing of course! In the next 10 years, employed nursing experience and practice, was earned in the hospital (Med Surg/PCU/ED), CMS long-term case management acute care (Gentiva, Bloomington), behvioral/physical assessment/evaluation home health case management,Home Health community agency settings with additional executive administration regulatory nursing experience, as assistant director of Fulton County Community Wellness Clinic, Canton. IL.

Graduation: 2011 Masters Science Nursing (MSN) graduate degree, from Loyola University, New Orleans with a Specialty in Health Care Systems Management

Leadership/Adminstration/Management, Healthcare Systems Delivery/Management, Quality and Safety, and Human Capital Management.

Minor Degree Courses: 2011 Nursing Education, from Research College of Nursing, Kansas City, MO. Acquired education, skills and tools of an advanced practice executive nurse and certified nurse educator. Integrity, ability to make decisions under pressure, perspective, emotional intelligence, communication skills, mentorship ability and flexibility.

Many student teaching education practicum hours w ere spent this Spring Semester at Fulton County Health Department, Canton, IL., teaching junior/senior/ RN - BSN students regarding community nursing/population health/disease management and prevention skills to expose students to real life experiences to further develop crital thinking and problem solving abilities. I was honored to be precept ed by Dr. Nancy Bailey DNP, RN, CNE., Chair of the Community Nursing Department.SFCON, during my student teaching practicum hours, while acquiring my MSN degree.

After graduation: 2011, Acceptence of adjunct clinical instructor/theory assistant professor of Nursing facuty teaching job at SFCON and I continued to teach there until the 2020, COVID-19 pandemic occured and laid me off from work, due to low student enrollment.

My performance excelled In these nurse educator role responsibilities and abilities: teaching clinical nursing skills,simulation skills, community nursing theory, student and patient education, student active learning experiences and interpersonal skills, computer and presentation skills, nursing standards, agency standards and managment, equipment training, and leadership development. Facilitation of student and patient care education experiences in the community setting, through the entire life span, infant to geriatrics. Following the mission of St. Francis Medical Center and practiced with the greatest care and love of the Catholic Church.

CAREER OBJECTIVE: Community Nursing is my heart. My future career objective is to keep teaching health education to clients, patients and to the communities in Central Illinois. I have made a commitment to life-long learning and education in my specialty areas. In the next 10 years, my personal career goals are Certification in Nursing Education (CNE), Nurse Executive Certification, Healthcare Quality and Management Certifications (HCQM) in Utilization Review, Patient Care Management and Quality Management, Performance Monitoring, Improvement and the medical software systems they support.

_ Nuring Faculty WORK EXPERIENCE_

Company Name: Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, 511 NE Greenleaf, Peoria IL., (simulation teaching) Allied Building and Jump Trading Simulation & Education Center

Position: Adjunct Community Clinical/theory Nursing Faculty

City/Town: Knox County, Stark County, Marshall County, Tazewell County and Fulton County

Time Period From: 07/2016 To: 07/2020

Nurse Educator: Facilitated SFCON Community Health Nursing students clinical, clinical simulation and community theory learning needs, professional development, management, socialization, assessment, evaluation skills and teaching strategies to function effectively within the organizational environment at comunity agencies, all over Central IL.

Following the nursing process and leading, (two) 8-hour clinical days and (one) 8-hour student advisement and evaluation (paperwork) days per week during each semester. I orientated and advised students of the standards, strategies and skills that a community nurse uses in everyday practice. Scheduled nurse shadowing visits with many organizations and community agencies, directed and facilitated local area health teaching to various age populations, in local area community agencies.

Provided student instruction and clinical guidance on patient care, on-site, working with the most vulnerable populations, Minorities: homeless families, homeless children, homeless men and women, homeless veterns all located at The Salvation Army-Heartland Division Headquarters 401 NE Adams St, Peoria. Executed 2 (8 hour) clinical days and 1 (8 hour) evaluation (paperwork and advisement) days a week, with each individual nursing student in my group of 8-10 students, each semester, with hands-on clinical behvioral/physical nursing practice experience, at the Salvation Army Sylvia Fytes Building (soup kitchen and safety men's shelter), Salvation Army Family Shelter Building, Salvation Army Day-Care Center and VA, Veterns Outreach Agency and the Salvation Army Disater and Response Agency.

Coordinated Agency contracts/PENS list and student clinical visits; at various community agencies in the Peoria, Tazewell and Fulton counties, Washington, Morton, Pekin, Peoria, E. Peoria, Bartonville, local City areas. Facilitating nursing clinical hours, for my group of senior level commity nursing students, to experience different areas of community nursing practice, with RN supervision at each agency.

Nursing Faculty Work EXPERIENCE

Company Name: Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria IL. 511 NE. Greenleaf Street Peoria IL, 61601

Position: Nursing Faculty at Tazewell County Health Department

City/Town: Tazwell County, IL

Time Period From: 07/2011 To: 07/2016

Nurse Educator: Facilitated Community Health Nursing students clinical and community theory learning needs, professional development, socialization, assessment, evaluation skills and teaching strategies to function effectively within the organizational environment, at the Tazewell County Health Department, 21306 IL-9, Tremont IL 61568.

Following the nursing process, planning care and providing interventions, assessments and evaluations of client care and leading nursing students, (two) 8-hour clinical days and (one) 8-hour student evaluation (paperwork) days per week during each semester. I orientated and advised students to the Tazewell County Public Health Department and staff, scheduled nurse visits with the different departments: Environmental Health, Birth to 5, Community Health and the Health Department Clinic Services.

Provided student instruction and clinical guidance with mom/baby visits and elderly geriactric case management visits, with each individual nursing student, each semester. I also coordinated contracts and clinical visits at many other community agencies in the Tazewell, Fulton, Washington, Peoria and E. Peoria County areas.

Directed students to develop and advertise health promotion presentations to present in-person to the public in adult and child focused community agencies, teaching projects, children ages 2-6 years focusing on needs and health care concerns for this early child care population. Each pair of students presented to the pre-school students and staff at the community agency, The Family Center Head Start, Child care agency in East Peoria, Illinois. I have expertise in Early Child Development strategies and management, through early childhood education and working personally with high risk infants and children with delayed child development needs, and facilition of early-child developmental experiences, for my nursing students, Birth to 5 Program at local Head Start Organizations, local day care centers and Tazewell County Health Department and Fulton County Health Departments.

SKILLS, ABILITIES AND NURSING EDUCATION CARE EXPERIENCE

EXPERTISE: Early Child Care Development & Elder Geriactric Nursing Care

Continuing Education, Student Recruitment, BSN Academic Student Advisement and MSN Grad Student Preceptorship/Practicum management and advisement. Referals and Academic and Employment refrences for graduating students, Communication and Interpersonal teaching Skills, Interacting Effectiviely with Students to teach 3 rotations, of 10 community students, each semester, while facilitating the Highest Standard Possible of Classroom and Clinical Instruction.

Collaborated with faculty Peers and College Nursing Administration, participated in the planning and teaching of new instructional materials and assisted with the development of new ON-LINE college clinical and coursework grading and evaluation systems, Nursing CONCEPT program re-structure and curriculum re-structure. (NLN Core Competencies for Nurse Educators CCNE Commision on Collegiate Nursing Education, Accredidation date 9/12/2016, President Chief Nurse Administrator: Sandra Soldwisch,, PhD, ANP-BC, APRN, St. Francis College of Nursing).

Leadership Service: Provided clinical instruction and guidence for orientations of BSN nursing students, to the local Health Departments in Tazewell and Fulton County.

2014 - Currently a member of the Fulton County Health Department Board of Directors, Executive Committe, Canton IL.

2017 - Currently Vice President of I-Care, Inc. Board of Directors, Canton, IL. Community Health Department Fundraising Organization.

Monthly, Organized and scheduled guest speakers to come to the college and speak on current community nursing puplic health issues such as the current opiod crisis, mental health, homelessness and disabled veterens.

Competent with various academic and hospital technologies: Google Chrome, Excel, Canvas, Blackboard, Microsoft Office 365, Windows operations and Electronic Healthcare Systems, EPIC and Oasis.

Provided nursing student orientation, facilitation and student instruction to various LTC, Acute Care, adult day care, hospice care, assisted living agencies, health education centers, call centers, UAW factory industries, community clinics, Schools, ambulatory services, wellness centers and fitness centers offering services for many adults, seniors and children, in the area, utilizing healthcare services and resources in Central IL.

EDUCATION

Jan 2009- May 2011: Loyola University - Master's of Science Degree in Nursing, New Orleans, LA. Administration/managment with a specialty in Healthcare Systems Delivery Systems.

G700 Theoretical Perspectives in Nursing G748 Human Resource Management

G704 Advanced Role Integration G716 Managed Care Methodologies

G712 Nursing Financial Resources I & II G740 Health Care Systems Management

G709 Legal & Ethical Issues in Health Care G732 Disease Resource Management

G735 Advanced Research Methods G752 Health Care Systems Residency

Leadership/Adminstration/Management, Healthcare Systems Delivery/Management, Quality and Safety, and Human Capital Management.

Honors: 3.978 GPA

Jan 2009 - May 2011: Research College of Nursing - Nursing Educaton Courses

Nursing Education Assessment and Evaluation Strategies, Educational Instructional Strategies and Testing Strategies

Professional/Scientic Organizaitons: ANA/NLN member, Sigma Theta Tau Internaitonal

Volunteer Activities: Salvation Army Heartland Division, Peoria IL. and Fulton County Wellness Center, Canton, IL.

Empolyment References

Professor Nancy Bailey, DNP, RN, CNE

Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria IL.

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Assistant Professor Stephanie Meuser MSN, APRN, FNP-BC

Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing, Peoria IL.

*********.*.******@*************.*** work: 309/655-2000 cell 309/264-2887

Dr. Sue Brown, RN, DNP, PhD

Dean of Undergraduate Nursing Progeam St. Francis College of Nursing

***.*.*****@*************.*** work: 309/655-2000

Stacy Wilson, MSN, RN

Facility Project Coordinator

*****.*.******@*************.*** work: 309/655-2000 cell: 309/645-2401

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