Doctorate-prepared registered nurse and innovative leader with extensive experience as an administrator, public relations specialist, clinician, and nurse/staff educator.  Possesses expertise as a certified professional in healthcare quality (CPHQ) and in patient safety with experience authoring and developing evidence-based patient safety programs, specifically in the long-term care and ambulatory settings.  Special areas of interest and focus relate to increasing internal event reporting and follow-up, decreasing the patient appointment no-show rate in ambulatory primary care, decreasing patient falls in the ambulatory setting and the ethics of policy on geriatric patients’ sexual rights.   Co-designed and led a system-wide initiative implementing a shorter electronic internal incident reporting form to decrease event submission time.  As Patient Safety Program Manager, adept in ensuring compliance to regulatory and accreditation standards and co-chair the organization’s Ambulatory Safety Committee, Ambulatory Falls Sub-Committee, Ambulatory Workplace Civility Sub-Committee and participate as an active member in the Ambulatory Medication/Vaccine Sub-Committee, and Primary Care Event Review Team. Identify and facilitate debriefs, root cause analysis and intensive review teams for sentinel events and CANDOR events in the ambulatory and acute care environments.   Nominated as a Delaware Today Top Nurse in Quality, Safety, and Risk Management for 2024. Team member recipient of a 2023 Christiana Care Way Award entitled “Daring to De-escalate: Increasing Caregiver Access to Workplace Violence Education.” Team leader and recipient of 2024 Christiana Care Way Awards: Operational Improvement Silver Award, “We Can’t Fix It If We Don’t Know About It: Increasing Reporting in Patient Safety” and Operational Improvement Bronze Award, “Patient Safety is Patient Care: Bringing an EBM Patient Safety Program to Ambulatory.”  Featured lecturer at ECRI and the ISMP PSO Annual Meeting 2024 and RL Datix World Health Summit 2025 on “Patient Safety is Patient Care: Brining an Evidence-Based Patient Safety Program to Ambulatory.” Winner of the Patient Commitment Award for the RLDatix Awards 2025. Poster presenter at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Forum 2024 on “We Can’t Fix It If We Don’t Know About It: Increasing Event Reporting with a Quick Submit Form.” Poster presenter and Rapid Fire Session Presenter at the 2025 AAACN Annual Conference in San Diego on “Patient Safety is Patient Care: Bringing an Evidence-Based Patient Safety Program to Ambulatory.”  Presenter at ECRI and the ISMP PSO Annual Meeting 2025 on Sustainably SMART: Empowering Ambulatory Teams to Manage Disruptive Patients.  Selected for two podium presentations at the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing Conference in 2026 for Patient Safety is “Patient Care: Bringing an Evidence-Based Patient Safety Program to Ambulatory” and “Sustainably SMART: Empowering Ambulatory Teams to Manage Disruptive Patients.”