Hilda T Shurbaji, BSN, MPH, CPC
Johnson City TN 37601
Email: **********@*****.***
Phone: 423-***-****
OBJECTIVE: I am writing to express my interest in the community outreach position available. Attached is my resume. In addition to the detailed experience here, I am a bilingual, with Arabic as a mother tongue and being proficient in spoken and written Arabic at the college level.
Experience:
1979-1981 Registered Nurse, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Duties:
1. Provision of nursing care to pediatric patient population in a tertiary care facility.
2. Charge nurse for evening shift for 20 bed pediatrics unit
1981-1984: Instructor at the Practical Nurse Training Program-AUB, Beirut, Lebanon
Duties:
1. Teaching practical nursing students courses in anatomy and physiology, microbiology and nursing care.
2. Supervision of students during various clinical rotations
1985-1989: RN at The Kennedy Institute for Handicapped Children, Baltimore, MD
Duties:
1. Provision of professional nursing care to 2 pediatric head and spinal injured patients.
2. A member of an interdisciplinary team to guide the care of patients. The team consisted of a physiatrist, neurologist, speech and language pathologist, PT and OT.
3. Charge nurse for unit as needed.
1990-1997 full time mother.
1997-2001: Student at East TN State University- College of Graduate Studies- School of Public Health. Degree awarded MPH with concentration in Health Care Administration.
2001- Aug 2011: Patient Service Representative at BRMMC
Duties: included front office related functions like checking in patients, charge entry, answering incoming phone calls/messages and handling medical records.
Aug 28, 2011- present: Clinical Coder II; Medical Records Dept; MSHA
Duties: Coding and assigning ICD-9 codes and CPT codes for hospitalists as well as physicians for Diabetes and wound clinic.
EDUCATION:
2011 UC Davis Extension Program
Davis, CA
Health care Informatics course Health Care Informatics
Completed: Grade A. It is an introductory course in bioinformatics which is about computer application in the healthcare environment. An in depth course about the use of computer applications in the healthcare setting and its impact on the delivery of healthcare at the regional and national level.
UC Davis Extension Program; Davis, CA
Clinical Data and Electronic Health Records
Completed: Grade A-; course in Clinical Data and electronic health records.
2010 Milligan College Elizabethton, TN
Course in Computer programming logic
A college level course; this programming course allowed me to understand the basic concepts related to object oriented programming.
2001 ETSU, Johnson City, TN
Master of Public Health Public Health- Healthcare Administration GPA: 3.65
1979 American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Bachelors of Nursing
CERTIFICATIONS:
CPC Dec 2011.
Proficient in use of Misys EMR, Allscripts EMR, Medic, 3M coder, Microsoft Office.
KEYWORD SUMMARY:
Nursing, Teaching, Mentoring, coaching, interdisciplinary healthcare, healthcare administration, medical records, medical terminology, anatomy and pathophysiology, health sciences, electronic health records, medical insurance, auditing of medical records, ICD-9, CPT coding, hospitalist coding, provider coding.