Alaina Scala-Brew, MSN/MHA, GERO-BC, NE-BC, RN

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Oak Ridge, NJ 07438

201-***-****

adxpw4@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

Professional Nursing Leader seeking new opportunities to inspire and develop nursing teams to provide outstanding evidence-based patient care and promote high quality levels of engagement.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

North Fullerton Surgery Center: Montclair, NJ

Director of Nursing 3/2022-present

Responsible for 1 room surgical center with a focus on plastics, urology, gynecology, and ENT surgeries.

Responsible for setting nursing staff schedules, evaluating nurses’ performance, and ensuring compliance with local, state, and federal policies and regulations.

Excellent multitasking and organizational skills, ability to lead and instruct others, Implementing new procedures and training as necessary.

Collaborates with multiple surgical providers to ensure efficiencies of staffing and scheduling procedures

Monitoring patient outcomes and setting clinical quality priorities

Focused on building strong relationships, developing staff skills and implementing a strategic plan to drive innovative processes

Resolve operational issues and communicate significant issues to appropriate leaders.

Proactively address client expectations and issues

Experience with developing and implementing plan of corrections for DOH and TJC

Engage in new hire recruitment and corrective educational and disciplinary action to ensure excellence in clinical practice.

Encourage and motivate team toward facility goals.

Create policies and processes to ensure compliance with all regulatory standards.

Atlantic Health System - Chilton Medical Center Campus: Pompton Plains, NJ

Nurse Manager 7/2015-present

•Responsible for all clinical excellence on 4 East (medical surgical/intermediate overflow 24- bed unit)

•Serves as transformational leader and major contributor to the Nursing Strategic Plan

•Champions the Shared Governance and Nursing Professional Practice Models

•Conducts employee activities, maintains standards of care and employs complex problem-solving strategies

•Promotes patient satisfaction (HCAHPS scores) and conducts leadership rounding

•Coordinates teamwork to meet organizational, developmental and departmental mission and vision

•Facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration (physician liaison, performance improvement, safety champion)

•Identifies learning gaps; initiates and implements performance and quality improvement action plans

•Completes staffing schedules, payroll, monitors budget and completes employee performance appraisals

•Ensures compliance to evidence-based policies, protocols and regulatory standards

•Oversees dialysis center operations / clinical practice in addition to serving as Chair of the Dialysis Committee

•Manages adequate staffing ratios, supports self-scheduling and promotes work life balance

•Co-chairs the Falls/Restraint Committee and facilitates discussions to improve nursing practice

•Lead the Culture of Excellence Safety Team to standardize the policy process

•Collaborates with Magnet Manager to create documents and educate staff on Magnet standards

•Mentors clinical preceptors and acts as role model to novice managers

•Actively participates on the following committees: Utilization Review, Infection Prevention, Patient Experience, Policy Oversight, Survey Leadership, Patient Family Advisory, Safety Fair Team and the Healing Culture Council

•Serves as member on RN Residency Advisory Board, AHS system Falls Committee, and Materials Management Committee

Infection Prevention (IP) Coordinator/Bariatric Coordinator 2013-2015

•Completed professional clinical ladder (PACT) project that resulted in improved system-wide MRSA discontinuation MRSA/ Cdiff precautions

•Implemented IP measures and identified appropriate diagnosis triggered isolation precautions

•Conducted IP surveillance and reported findings to the appropriate unit, committee, and/or regulatory agency

•Developed statistical charts based on infection rates

•Ensured adherence to quality measures and evidence-based practice guidelines

•Served as liaison between hospital and public health department

•Developed IP education and communicated to all interdisciplinary departments

•Conducted hospital readiness rounds/surveillance in preparation for bariatric reaccreditation process

Med/Surg/Neuro/Orthopedic Full Time Staff/Charge RN 2010-2013

•Assisted with management of unit by leading daily operations of nursing staff to achieve quality care

•Mentored and trained nursing staff to develop professional/collaborative nursing teams

•Responsible for the complete nursing process for adult patients

•Identified short and long-term goals based on patient care needs, modified plan accordingly to meet goals

•Collaborated with appropriate health team members to coordinate daily plan of care for assigned patients

Mountainside Hospital: Montclair, NJ 2009-2010

Provided wound care to patients in an outpatient setting

Cared for bariatric patient pre- and post-operatively in outpatient setting

EDUCATION:

University of Phoenix Phoenix, AZ

Nursing- Master in Health Care Administration/Masters in Nursing 2018

Nursing- Bachelors in Applied Science 2013

Passaic County Community College Paterson, NJ 2009

Nursing - Associates in Applied Science

Morris County Community College Randolph, NJ 2005

Exercise Science – Associates in Science

ACCREDITATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:

New Jersey Registered Nurse License

American Heart Association BLS and ACLS

Honor Society of Nursing

American Nursing Association

ANCC Gerontology Certification

ANCC Nurse Executive Certification

Board Member of New Jersey State Nurses Association (NJSNA)

Association of Perioperative Nurses (AORN)

American Society of Peri-anesthesia Nurses (ASPAN)

Member of New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgical Centers (NJAASC)

References will be furnished upon request

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