Resume

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Executive Leadership: Led large-scale, enterprise-wide nursing education and professional development initiatives across diverse healthcare settings, including integration efforts after health system mergers. 

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Strategic Mindset: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams to achieve impactful outcomes by optimizing resources, streamlining processes, and strategically reallocating FTEs and resources to areas with the greatest need for efficiency and growth.

 

Nursing Practice and Quality Improvement: Led multiple quality improvement initiatives, including nursing-sensitive indicator advancements and evidence-based practice integration, such as serving as leader sponsor over key efforts including CAUTI, CLABSI, Falls, HAPI, sepsis, and restraints. 

 

Program Management: Spearheaded the development and successful execution of programs across micro, meso, and macro levels, driving initiatives in both clinical and non-clinical settings, and fostering collaboration between nursing and interprofessional teams.

 

Interprofessional Collaboration: Fostered collaborative relationships with nurses, physicians, pharmacists, social workers and other healthcare professionals to provide continuing education activities. Collaborated to support the transition of IPCE delivery using an electronic platform. 

 

Education and Training: Responsible for education design and delivery at all levels throughout NPD leader tenure, including site, multi-site, state, region, and enterprise for orientation, onboarding, transition to practice, professional development, role development, and clinical practice. 

 

Grant Funding and Nursing Research: Secured multiple grants to advance age-friendly initiatives and dementia care. Contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications and national presentations on a variety of topics, including nursing education, nurse engagement, interprofessional collaboration, transition to practice, and clinical practice. 

 

Community Engagement and Service Learning: Coordinated volunteer opportunities for clinical nurses, connecting them with local food banks, health fairs, women's shelters, and high schools. Partnered with local high schools and non profits to implement "Pop-Up" approach for health promotion teaching.

 

Accreditation and Regulatory Compliance: Extensive experience managing accreditation processes for nursing programs, including securing accreditation and re-accreditation status for large-scale residency programs and aligning education efforts with national standards. Directed Magnet journey for two separate organizations, resulting in exemplar findings. Serve as an accreditation appraiser for national and worldwide programs.

 

Professional Leadership and Recognition: Active member and leader in the Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD), recognized with multiple awards including the Belinda E. Puetz Exemplary NPD Leadership Award, ANPD Champion for Scientific Inquiry Award, 40 Under 40 Nurse Leader honoree, and Nurse Leader of the Year.