Family Nurse Practitioner performing pre-operative history and physicals, collaborating, consulting, and referring with primary care providers and specialists as patient's medical condition warrants for cosmetic, insurance (plastics, general, orthopedics, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, and cardiac) and Caritas clinic for underserved patients and bariatric. Build rapport with clients

*Achieve Bariatric Center of Excellence Accreditation 2009
*Organized and co-manage Bariatric COE when project stalled
*Increased client access to bariatric surgery as more insurance companies eligible to come to facility and provide higher reimbursement and more income to facility through increased volume.
*Develop bariatric pathway based on HMO eligibility criteria and outside surgeon practice
*Liaison between hospital, physicians, and health maintenance organization (Kaiser)for clients and bariatric process
*Coordinated and distributed electronic and paper bariatric education material to appropriate departments(ER, diagnostic imaging, security, dietary, nursing, and HMO national web site
*BOLD data entry and auditing 2007 to 2010 for accreditation and analysis of data for complications and compliance.
*Collection, evaluation, analysis, documentation of clients pre-op in review of chronic and acute health issues, post op rounds including: discharge teaching, prescriptions and phone follow up triage and interventions.

*“On Time Starts” surgery department especially for underserved increased 30% in first 3 months, minimized cancellation which increased profits and prevent complications

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*Precepted nurse practitioner students from 1994 to 2001 for several colleges and universities

*Contribute to latex allergy referral testing protocol, beta blocker protocol implementation, medication reconciliation trial

*Family Nurse Practitioner treated outpatient rural family health needs including chronic and acute illness and health maintenance with referral to specialist and surgeons

*Coordinated care for pediatrics chronic and acute illness and surgical: ent, opth,ortho,neuro,gu and plastics, occassional chemotherapy

*Coordinated care for general adult surgical including gyn, gu, plastics, ent, vascular, bariatric, and solid tumor patients occasionally administering chemotherapy