Resume of Candidate # 324651. Experienced Assisted Living Director looking for Nurse Managment or ER Manager.  Candidate has been a RN Manager in Home Health, Assisted Living, and a Community Health Clinic.  He is interested in continuing in management, but is open to direct patient care.  Also has interest in Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, OR and ER (with refresher training). 

 

 

 

Large Health Care Services - Houston TX

 

Responsible for the day to day operations of the three clinic sites with a staff of approximately 45 people including three nurse practitioners, five Licensed Vocational Nurses and twenty Medical Assistants, as well as the medical records, front desk, and eligibility staff.  Operations include 10,000 primary care and HIV specialty care, 8,000 sexually transmitted 1,000 family planning, and 3,000 urgent care visits per year. Other responsibilities include: Quality Assurance Committee Chair, Inter-disciplinary (IDT) Committee Chair, Heath Information Portability Protection Act Officer, policy and protocol development, systems evaluation lab staffing, referral coordination, development of standardized forms, staff development and training, assistance in the conversion of the patient management system, as well as all aspects of federal, state, local and agency reporting

 

Special Activities:

 

Large Assisted Living Center – Houston TX

 

Responsible for all aspects of care for 90 residents, with a capacity to serve up to 110 residents, with a nursing staff of three Licensed Vocational Nurses, five Certified Medication Aides and 15 Certified Nurses Aides.  Responsibilities included all initial new resident assessments and development and coordination of their Plan of Care, all aspects of Quality Improvement and ongoing resident monitoring to ensure that all needs are being addressed and that necessary services are being provided.  Served as liaison between residents, staff, families and contracted services to ensure all aspects of care. Additional responsibilities included: development and implementation of yearly schedules for in-services; care log development/procedures; building oversight of ongoing assisted living education; and development of a new set of Wellness Policies.  Served also as an integrated participant in marketing efforts to gain additional residents.  During this period, center was subject to three Texas Department of Health Services audits, the last two resulting in no deficiencies.  

 

Large Healthcare Center - Houston TX

 

Responsible for all medical aspects of care for over 200 patients, including:  adherence to the plan of care, physician orders adherence, State and Federal rules adherence, and patient satisfaction.  Design and implementation of procedures resulting in decreasing missed visits for nursing as well as provider hours.  Interacted with all payer sources, including Medicaid and HMOs.  Managed the Assistant Director of Nursing, Scheduler of Provider Services and over 150 Home Health Aides which served 10 counties in the Houston Metropolitan Area.

 

Responsible for nursing day to day operations, including scheduling all field nurses for weekly visits, and setting in place systems, managing and tracking all areas of patient care, including:  physician orders, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing services and provider services. 

 

Weekly in-home visits for approximately eight patients. Head to toe assessments, Intravenous therapy, patient wound care, and physician management. 

 

Large Healthcare Facility – Houston TX

 

Responsible for the total care of up to five patients in the Observation Unit.  Cross training in the emergency center since graduation (May 1998).  Responsible for charting, taking physician orders, computer entry of all orders including lab, medications, and ancillary services and staff supervision (Licensed Vocational Nurses). 

 

Large Homecare Center – Houston TX

 

 Responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of the Health Interventions Plus HIV/AIDS Program:  provided case management services, facilitated peer self-empowerment and educational groups, developed clinical networks, facilitated programmatic consumer focus groups, and secured and managed Ryan White grant funding. During my tenure, NMC’s HIV/AIDS patient load increased by over 50% to include 450 patients under Ryan White funding.

 

 

Major HIV Service Center – Houston TX

 

Responsible for the management of the day-to-day operations of a nonprofit network of community providers:  established organizational policies and procedures, financial management, and development, maintenance and marketing of the Houston area’s first HIV resource data management system, encompassing seventeen counties, facilitated and organized meetings for five standing committees, initiated and coordinated special projects, and secured grant funding.

 

Large AIDS Development Center – Houston TX

 

Responsible for organizational coordination of the Development and Volunteer Departments:  converted records to a computerized tracking system for volunteer and donor management, developed and maintained a system for tracking donations, established office policies and procedures for the Development Department, maintained in excess of 750 volunteer records, developed a volunteer procedure manual, and organized special projects.

 

Large Convenience Store Chain – Houston TX

 

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of five convenience stores, supervising all managers, monitoring budgets, payroll, hiring, training, and company compliance guidelines.

 

 

05/1998   Houston Community College, Houston, TX

 

12/1980   Pennsylvania State University, Altoona, PA, Fall semester

 

                                   

7/98   Registered Nurse, Texas License