Expert Details
Critical Care Nursing, Nursing Student Liability, Critical Care Technology
ID: 725992
Massachusetts, USA
She has had tremendous varying experiences in the field of critical nursing and seeks to continually keep her heart and soul in this area of practice.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1990 | Degree: MSN | Subject: Nursing Administration | Institution: Anna Maria College |
| Year: 1979 | Degree: BSN | Subject: Nursing | Institution: St. Anselm College |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2004 to 2007 | Employer: Fairlawn Rehabilitation Hospital | Title: Director of Quality Management & Education | Department: Administration |
Responsibilities:Responsible for all regualtory agency compliance, quality management and performance improvement activities; patient satisfaction data and communication of the data to staff, general education including orientation and annual competency development and monitoring |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2002 to 2007 | Employer: Becker College | Title: Adjunct Professor of Nursing | Department: Nursing |
Responsibilities:Responsible for classroom lecturing, clinical instruction in various healthcare institutions with nursing students, laboratory experience demonstration and evaluation and student tutoring. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1990 to 2002 | Employer: St. Vincent Hospital | Title: Nurse Manager | Department: Critical Care |
Responsibilities:Performed all managerial aspects of critical care in a 37-bed combined (medical. surgical, cardiac and cardio-thoracic) adult ICU. Duties included managing the budget, hiring, firing, evaluating and communicating with a staff of 60 plus FTE's. Co-charged committes to assure excellent patient outcomes based on evidence-based practice. Monitored patient outcomes with quality improvement activities. Managed overall patient satisfaction information including personal control of all verbal/written patient/family complaints. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1980 to 1990 | Employer: St. Vincent Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Fallon Clinic | Title: Staff Nurse | Department: Nursing |
Responsibilities:Staff nurse in various settings- ICU, OR/Recovery Room, Out-Patient Clinic from the start of her nursing career to gain clinical experience. Primary focus was on critical care preparing for her role as nurse manager. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| Inducted in Sigma Theta Tau Honor Society for Nurses MSN: Graduated Magna Cum Laude Member of ANA |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| MA RN License MSN in Nursing Administration CRRN: Certification in Rehabilitation Nursing CCRN: Formerly certified in critical care nursing |
| Professional Appointments |
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| Committee chair: Quality Council, Education Committee, Ethics Committee, JCAHO Prep Team Member of the following committees: Medical Executive, Pharmacy & Therapeutics, Safety Committee |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| Ist recipient of the Helen Marie Smith Award for Excellence in Critical Nursing Selected for appointment to Sigma Theta Tao |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| She has 3 publications and awaits approval for another publication. She developed many competency training modules that were incorporated into corporate annual trainings. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| She participated in 2 litigation cases while managing the ICU's. She was a witness for the hospital defining best practice, policy and procedure and staff competence. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| "The Medical Record: The Only Witness that does not Die": A program she developed for staff competency in adequate documentation. The Nurse Manager: Defending the Practice of staff": A workshop She filled in for the Risk Manager in her absence while the expert was in the Rehab facility requiring knowledge of high-risk practice, error reduction, divulging errors and working with corporate legal when necessary. |
| Vendor Selection |
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| In the ICU, she was very involved in vendor selection for all new products as well as being a member of the "Value Analysis committee." During her tenure in the ICU, they buit and moved into a new facility requiring the purchase of many new products and training staff on the move process, new equipment and safe transferof patients from one facility to the next. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| She was charged with the cost analysis on all new products and was authorized to challenge products that appeared to lack quality. She conducted staff opinion during clinical trials of all new products. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Many years of ICU experience dealing with the "Sickest of the sick within the hospital;" she was involved from the grass roots on the design of the new hospital (most specifically the critical care center; she scheduled all inservices and training for all new equipment assuring adequate clinical education for all staff; she was the director of the in-patient move of over 200 patients to a new facility which occurred during a nurses' labor strike; she maintained a budget neutral operation with cost justifdications based on need: she approved all overtime related to staffing changes or needs for additional staff during periods of high census and acuity. |