Expert Details
Neuroscience
ID: 735036
Maryland, USA
Expert has demonstrated success in achieving results while motivating, inspiring and mentoring others. To provide some examples: Under her management, the Primary Stroke Center at GBMC enjoyed status as the #1 stroke center in Maryland for 5 consecutive years (as ranked by Health Grades). She increased compliance for mandatory stroke education from an average of 28% to 83% in 4 months; and created a plan to preserve long-term compliance. While at Johns Hopkins Hospital, she maintained the highest rate of nursing retention within eight Primary Nursing Groups on the NCCU for 3 years.
Expert’s expertise has been sought in several venues, including consultative advice on program creation and problem solving, peer review for journal articles and as a retained professional case reviewer for litigation. She worked as a Field Reviewer of Stroke Centers with Disease Specific Care certification for the Joint Commission, on an intermittent basis.
Expert's specialties are excellent disease-specific care program design and certification management. Expert case review and root cause analysis. Skilled utilization of Lean strategies to promote performance improvement and streamline workflows while maintaining optimal quality of care. Leveraging of the electronic health record for core measure capture, Meaningful Use and Accountable Care initiatives.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 2010 | Degree: Masters | Subject: Nursing | Institution: Johns Hopkins University |
| Year: 2000 | Degree: Bachelors | Subject: Nursing | Institution: University of Maryland |
| Year: 1992 | Degree: Bachelors | Subject: Biology | Institution: Towson State University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2016 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Nurse Manager | Department: Neuroscience Center |
Responsibilities:Expert is responsible for general management and ensuring that safe, evidence-based age-appropriate patient care is provided in the Neuroscience Center, which is a key component of the Neuroscience Service Line of Employer. She functions as role model, advisor, resource, and leader for other members of the patient care team. She is committed to sustaining a culture focused on achieving optimal patient outcomes by delivering highly reliable care. The Neuroscience Center is a 36-bed telemetry-capable inpatient unit dedicated to the care of individuals with a variety of neurological disorders including stroke, seizures, traumatic brain injury, spinal surgery, and normal pressure hydrocephalus as examples. The Center includes a Level IV Epilepsy Monitoring Unit and serves as the hospital’s Stroke Unit. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2012 to 2016 | Employer: UM St. Joseph Medical Center | Title: Stroke Program Manager | Department: Emergency Medicine |
Responsibilities:Expert maintained TJC and MIEMSS Primary Stroke Center certification through promotion of multidisciplinary evidence-based care for the stroke population. She led a multidisciplinary team to implement changes that translate current evidence and regulatory standards into practical workflow. She participated in workgroups as a subject matter expert for EPIC development and implementation. She managed the program budget as well. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2013 to 2017 | Employer: The Joint Commission | Title: Field Reviewer | Department: Desease Specific Care |
Responsibilities:Expert independently reviewed Primary Stroke Centers in health care organizations throughout the United States. She applied sophisticated analyses and inductive reasoning skills to determine an organization’s compliance with applicable standards, ability to facilitate safe evidence-based patient care, and identify potential vulnerabilities or risk points, as related to the stroke population. She also employed advanced communication skills to engage the organization’s Leadership and staff in interactive dialogues on a broad array of health care issues to assess compliance. She professionally and effectively communicated survey results in a constructive and collegial style. She also prepared detailed, accurate management reports. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2011 to 2012 | Employer: WellSpan Health | Title: Stroke Systems Coordinator | Department: Neuroscience Service Line |
Responsibilities:Expert utilized a service line approach to system-wide stroke population management across the continuum of care. She crafted valuable transition-of-care pathways. She also led multifaceted data collection team to initiate, monitor, evaluate and revise quality initiatives to promote evidence-based practice. She led the Primary Stroke Center recertification site visit with TJC. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2011 | Employer: Greater Baltimore Medical Center | Title: Stroke Program and Neurophysiology Lab Manager | Department: Department of Medicine |
Responsibilities:Expert led clinical program development and maintained TJC and MIEMSS Primary Stroke Center certification. She managed the departmental budget and human resources including hiring, training /development, and performance reviews. She improved service excellence and initiated, monitored, evaluated and revised quality initiatives to promote evidence-based practice. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2000 to 2006 | Employer: Johns Hopkins Hospital | Title: Nurse Clinician I, II, and III | Department: Neuro Critical Care Unit |
Responsibilities:Expert was responsible for coordinating with a multidisciplinary heath care team for the total scope of care for a group of patients throughout their unit stay. She provided direct patient care; mentored and managed other staff; and analyzed complex data sets to improve patient care, and unit and organizational systems. She undertook unit management functions as directed by or in the absence of the Nurse Manager. Unit educator, orientation coordinator, charge nurse utilizing resource-based triage skills. She served as CNRN review course teacher as well. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| American Association of Neuroscience Nurses (AANN) (2004-present). Founding Vice-President of the Chesapeake Bay Chapter (2012-16). |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Registered Nurse, State of Maryland expires 2/2019 Stroke Certified Registered Nurse expires 4/2019 Certified Neurological Registered Nurse expires 12/2018 Emergency Neurological Life Support expires 6/2020 BLS expires 10/2019 ACLS expires 2/2019 |
| Professional Appointments |
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| 2015-2016: AANN National Educational Products Committee: Appointed Member Peer Reviewer: Expert conducts peer review of neuroscience nursing journal articles, special edition journal publications, CEU articles and editorials. She has done so as needed from 2009 to present. Examples include: • American Nurse Today (multiple articles) • Journal of Radiology Nursing (Guest Editor, special edition on stroke) • Nursing Spectrum (CEU article) |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| T. Rowe Price Scholarship Johns Hopkins Hospital Nurse Scholar |
| Medical / Professional |
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| Adhoc Advisory Board Member for Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals Desmotoplace |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has authored a copyrighted SCRN Exam Review Course, which includes a 2-day workshop designed to assist candidates for stroke certification in preparing for the SCRN® Exam. Multiple speakers present topics covering the eight domains of stroke nursing as described by the ABNN. Expert is primary author of a poster presentation regarding certified stroke unit patient placement. Expert designed an entire course outline for a stroke workshop. In this role, she presented lecture material on stroke epidemiology, literature, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging and nursing considerations. She led a simulation lab scenario as well. Expert conducted a case study of stroke as a complication of H1N1 infection. She has given a poster presentation on optimizing data quality for primary stroke centers. She has also designed and presented multiple lectures for nurses on stroke, neuromuscular disease, central nervous system infections, and related topics. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| 1. Assisted hospital (at which Expert was employed) with review of case to defend against suit brought against them by a patient, who stated he was not getting the correct care and left AMA. That night he had a huge stroke. Showed that hospital followed standard of care and was not at fault in patient’s outcome. 2. For the plaintiff, reviewed documentation for a case of a stroke patient that fell and suffered a lethal intracranial bleed. Found a single physician order in the hundreds of pages of the medical chart that won the case for the plaintiff. 3. For the plaintiff, reviewed documentation of medical record, which showed that the patient was incorrectly treated, leading to a large, life-altering stroke. Patient spent the rest of his life in a nursing facility. Case won for the plaintiff. 4. In a labor dispute, reviewed charts for the plaintiff who was a Nurse Practitioner. Proved that her decision-making was correct and therefore she could not be terminated on the grounds of poor medical decisions. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Expert has presented multiple lectures (available upon request). Continuing education credits available upon request as well. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Expert has provided outreach to first responders and to the public. |