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Welcome to Purpose Driven Healthcare! A place to share thoughts and ideas on Human Experience in Healthcare.
Welcome to Purpose Driven Healthcare! A place to share thoughts and ideas on Human Experience in Healthcare.
#PinkSocks wearing, enthusiastic patient experience warrior combining over a decade of nursing and leadership experience with years of experience engaging caregivers throughout the healthcare sector. Provider of inspiration, energy, and information focused on centering caregivers (current and future) on their purpose resulting in reduced suffering for patients AND caregivers.
Clinical background includes adult critical care and Level 1 Emergency/Trauma nursing. Leadership background includes administrative strategic planning, culture development project management, interdisciplinary collaboration, shared governance, professional development, quality and risk management, data management and analysis, and performance improvement, staff engagement & patient experience.
April 2018 - Present
Design, develop and present PX strategy to achieve and maintain excellence in care delivery.
Develop and foster a patient-centered culture across 7 hospitals, including urgent care, medical practice, home health/hospice among 13,000 caregivers.
Unit Director – Emergency Department
August 2011 – August 2018
Provides day-to-day leadership for successful implementation of goals and objectives for 72 bed Level 1 Trauma Center.
Responsible for the patient-centered culture transformation
Clinical Team Lead – Emergency Department
September 2008 – August 2011
Staff RN – Emergency Department
June 2008 – September 2008
August 2018 – Present
Responsible for supervising, assisting, evaluating, and grading RN nursing students in the clinical environment
August 2005 – June 2008
Jefferson College of Health Sciences: Roanoke, VA
Bluefield State College: Bluefield, WV
Bluefield State College: Bluefield, WV
Gubernatorial Appointment (2019) - RN Board Member
President - 2022/2023