Highlights of Professional Experience

April 2020 to present: Surgical Quality Program Manager Delaware Valley, Nemours Children’s Health System. Critical evaluation of population health equity, risk and quality data across perioperative service lines spanning four states. Oversight of regulatory accreditation, surgical quality, performance improvement initiatives, strategic vision alignment, key performance indicators, and policies/procedures to maximize growth, profitability, error prevention, and superior patient and family experience.

• Directed system dashboard integration for advanced surgical quality analytics
• Lead American College of Surgeons Quality Program accreditation
• Assisted with Surgical and Emergency Services Covid plan
• Established comprehensive enterprise Morbidity and Mortality electronic platform

January 2015 to April 2020: Clinical Nurse Specialist Emergency Services, Nemours Children’s Health System. Member of the leadership team in a 5-zone, 43-bed, Emergency Department logging 60,000 visits annually. Liaison between Nemours and State of Delaware Emergency Management. Collaborated with pharmacy, legal and quality to ensure operations met regulatory guidelines. Clinical and fiscal oversight including performance analytics, budget, continuous improvement, creation and maintenance of policies, electronic order sets and clinical pathways as part of ED Value Stream/Lean, lead successful Lantern, Emergency Medical Services for Children and Magnet accreditation.

• Created protocolized orders maximizing triage throughput and reducing provider burden
• Curated initiatives to improve nursing coverage while reducing costs
• Fostered clinical excellence and retention (> 5%) with mentoring and advancement program
• Sustained reduced medication error rate (<0.23%) integrating barcode medication scanning
• Championed pain initiatives Press Ganey Top Box scores from 22^nd to 95^th

August 2004 to January 2015: Advanced Practice Nurse Sedation Team, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Nemours Children’s Health System. Strategic responsibility for advancing nursing practice and patient safety of 35-member team. System level assessments using six sigma principles to identify variables influencing nursing and medical imaging clinical excellence and outcomes, promoting patient safety, culturally competent care, fiscal improvement. Medical Staff Member with oversight of outpatient infusions, sedation, procedures such as percutaneous drains, arthrograms, diagnostic and interventional CT, VCUG, nuclear studies and MRI.

• Collaborated on electronic anesthesia record used throughout the health system.
• Implemented novel nitrous oxide sedation program increasing patient throughput 400%
• Steered ambulatory design during hospital expansion

June 1993 to August 2004: Nurse Supervisor, Home Care Division Bayada Nurses, Delaware. Responsible for meeting and maintaining state and federal regulatory and accreditation standards. Oversight, engagement, and leadership of 200 registered nurses that transitioned and cared for critically ill adults, infants and children that were technology dependent in the home environment requiring mechanical ventilation with airway adjuncts or palliative care.

Education

Post Graduate Wilmington University

• Post Masters Certificate Family Nurse Practitioner
• Post Masters Certificate Executive Leadership

University of Delaware

• Doctor of Nursing Practice: Advanced Practice Leadership
• Master of Science Nursing: Pediatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Bachelor of Science Nursing

Licensure and Certifications

• Licensed and board-certified Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Board certified Radiology, Emergency and Trauma Nurse
• Delaware Prescriptive License and DEA Controlled Substances Registration
• Instructor certification BLS, PALS, ACLS, TNCC, S.T.A.B.L.E

Awards

• 2019 Winner Delaware Excellence in Nursing Practice Awards-Top APRN
• 2018 Nurses Week Synergy Award Facilitator of Learning
• 2017 Nurses Week Synergy Award Transformational Leadership
• 2016 Nurses Week Synergy Award Systems Thinking
• 2015 Nurses Week Synergy Award Team Facilitator of Learning
• 2012 Finalist Delaware Excellence in Nursing Practice Awards
• 2011 Runner Up: Best Regional Nursing Team, Advance for Nurses
• 2010 Doughty Award: Academic Excellence in Clinical Practice at Nemours.
• 2010 Linda Strangio Editor’s Award: Excellence in writing Radiology Nursing
• 2004 Bayada Nurses Life Saver Award

Activities

• 2023 Associate Faculty University of Scranton Master of Health Administration (MHA)
• 2021 American College of Surgeons CSV Quality Program Executive Lead
• 2019 Lantern Award Lead Facilitator for Nemours

• 2018 Lead for Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Level 1 Accreditation

• 2018 Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Site Appraiser Delaware

• 2018 Creation and implementation of a novel ED food insecurity screening program
• 2017-2019 ISMP High Alert Medication Safety Task Force Lead

• 2017 Faculty Pediatric Sedation Skills Course, Nemours, AIDHC

• 2017 A3 Medication initiative Nemours Emergency Services, net savings ~$250,000

• 2016-2020 Associate Faculty University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

• 2016-2019 Chair Comfort Counts pain initiatives at Nemours
• 2015/2018 Joint Commission Preparation Team for Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida

• 2015 Beta Tester Trauma Core for Registered Nurses Exam
• 2012-2019 Associate Faculty University of Delaware

• 2012-2014 Direction, coordination, execution of $257-million hospital expansion
• 2011-2018 Magnet accreditation team member

• 2011/2013 ANCC Item Writer Clinical Nurse Specialist Pediatric Exam
• 2011 Podium speaker at Society for Pediatric Nurses, Las Vegas, Nevada