· Experienced Registered Nurse working with wide range of medically complex patients.
· Extensive experience with Eclipsys Sunrise Critical Care patient care documentation system.
· Extensive experience with Cerner Corperation's Powerchart.
· Computing and programming experience using C, Java, SQL, Solaris UNIX OS , vi, and writing shell scripts.
· Goal oriented, creative and resourceful.
· Outstanding customer service skills.
· Excellent oral and written communication skills.
· Work related experience Nursing and Case Management:
- Primary acute care nursing on neuro, med-surg, and rehab units.
- Primary care nursing for complex skilled nursing and ventilator dependent patients.
- Medical case manager serving as a clinical liaison between medical team and insurance company.
- Maintained and negotiated facility contracts with major health insurers.
- Medicare utilization review.
· Work related experience Computing and Information Technology:
- Configuration of Clinical Information System used at the University of Washington Medical Center.
- Data Analysis with extensive use of Transact SQL script writing.
- Programming in C, Java, and shell scripting.
- Extensive use of Sun Solaris 5.6 Unix operating system.
- Extensive use of the native Unix vi (Visual Editor).
- Created computer models for predicting the cost of patient care.
- Extracted medical information from facility databases for statistical examination.
- Prepared reports highlighting the demographic characteristics of patient populations.
- Managed and maintained facility website.
· Computing and Software Systems, University of Washington, Tacoma:
- Object oriented programming
- Data structures and algorithms in C and Java
- Discrete mathematics
- Software engineering principles
- Database design and development
2002 to Present University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA. Data Analyst, writing Transact SQL scripts to retrieve data from medical records system. Configuration Specialist for the Clinical Information Systems (CIS) Dept. Configured, programmed, and tested CIS system changes using "vi" (Unix visual editor), and vendor configuration tools. Wrote and edited shell scripts, C programs, and Java programs.
1998 to 2002 Providence Health System, Seattle, WA. Case Manager for skilled nursing unit. Acted as clinical liaison between medical staff, insurance companies, Medicare, and patients. Screened admissions for appropriateness. Created computer models to predict cost of care. Extracted patient information from clinical database for analysis. Authored reports characterizing patient population demographics. Provided Medicare utilization review. Negotiated and maintained facility contracts. Web site development and management.
1992 to 1998 Integrated Health Services of Seattle, Seattle, WA. Case Manager for skilled nursing unit. Updated insurance companies on patient progress. Created database to track patient cost and patient outcomes. Provided Medicare utilization review. Provided primary care nursing as Staff RN for complex ventilator dependent patients.
1991 to 1992 Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. Staff Registered Nurse provided primary patient care on an acute Neuro unit.
2002 Bachelor of Science Computing and Software Systems. Institute of Technology,
University of Washington, Tacoma.
1998 Bachelor of Science Nursing. University of Washington, Bothell
1991 Associate of Applied Science Nursing. St. Louis Community College.
Association for Computing Machinery
Washington State Nurses Association
University of Washington Alumni Association
Providence Mount St. Vincent activities department.