Aunya Colvin
Lansing
Summary
Experienced with managing nursing teams and optimizing patient care processes. Utilizes advanced clinical knowledge and leadership abilities to foster supportive and efficient work environment. Track record of successfully implementing care strategies and improving patient outcomes through collaborative teamwork and strategic planning.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Clinical Operations Nursing Supervisor
John Stroger Hospital
02.2024 - Current
- Collaborates with Nursing Leadership to develop nursing care standards, ensuring patient care in the unit is delivered within hospital-established service standards and regulatory and professional standards of care. Identifies opportunities for process improvement and initiates improvement efforts within the unit to increase and exceed unit performance measures. Ensures nursing staff follows accurate and complete documentation procedures at all times. Completes required quality assessment and performance improvement reports for the unit. Maintains a safe, culturally sensitive, and caring patient environment that reflects CCH standards and patient and family expectations. Demonstrates and promotes awareness of patient care rights; serves as patient advocate.
PRN Field Nurse
Advocate Home Health
07.2023 - Current
- Coordinating patient care by collaborating with multiple disciplines. Patients and family education. Wound care for complicated wounds and LVADS. Discharge planning. Diabetic teaching. Managing CHF patients. Competent in EPIC computer charting. Skilled in Medicare and Medicaid regulatory guidelines.
Emergency Department Assistant Nurse Manager
St. Bernard Hospital
07.2023 - 01.2024
- Partner with the Nurse Manager of the ED to provide unit leadership. Maintain open communications with the manager. Assist the manager in planning safe, economical, and effective nursing care. Assist the Nurse Manager in setting achievable objectives for the unit. Ensure that the staff meets quality standards of care for each patient, and it is appropriately recorded in the medical record. Assist in preparing the departmental work schedules for disciplines for each shift. Assist in preparing patient care assignments for staff—committees: Meditech expanse EMR, wound care, shared governance, sepsis, and ED throughput.
RN Lead
Advocate Home Health
08.2022 - 07.2023
- Provides clinical and managerial coverage as needed. Serves as a liaison between patients, staff, physicians, and external customers by sharing necessary information to ensure continuity of care. Responsible for daily team operations, staffing schedules, and work to achieve overall work standards and goals. Accountable for the department orientation and training of new associates. Carries out process audits to confirm maintenance of standard work. Actively seeks to drive waste out of the process. Conducts team huddles/meetings as needed. Supports managers in a variety of department/administrative functions as directed.
COVID Contract Nurse
All Medical Staffing Network
01.2021 - 03.2023
- Contract Nurse for Medical-Surgical/Telemetry/ICU/Detox units. Providing care to COVID patients. Responsible for implementing and supervising nursing services in medical detoxification programs.
Case Management
Kindred at Home Health Agency
09.2020 - 02.2022
- Provide admission, case management, and follow-up skilled nursing visits for home health patients. Confer with MD in developing a plan of care. Discharge patients after consultation with MD and Clinical Manager.
Case Management
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
10.2018 - 09.2020
- This position is responsible for performing all functions of Utilization Management (UM), Case Management (CM), and Disease Management (DM) and is a source of contact for members, healthcare personnel, and all other entities involved in managing care. The Primary Nurse Coordinator performs concurrent review, discharge planning, and care coordination; identifies alternate treatment programs; consults with physicians, providers, members, and other resources to evaluate options and services required to meet an individual's health needs; promotes quality and cost-effective outcomes; and serves as liaison to physicians and members. Other functions include episodic case management, determining member assignment of treatment, and pre-admission/post-discharge counseling for an acute condition.
ICU/CCU/Telemetry Staff Nurse
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
09.2008 - 09.2020
- Provides care to patients with angina, MI, congestive heart failure, and post-cath—chronic and acute cardiac issues. Manage various cardiac drips and care for intubated and critically ill post-surgical patients. Charge Nurse. Preceptor.
- Cardiology Quality Coordinator- Advance the cardiac program and assure adherence to National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) CATHPCI & ICD registry guidelines and best practices. Responsible for entering data/statistics into the registry, tracking and trending data, and developing action plans as necessary. Monitor hospital-wide adherence to specific protocols and serve as a clinical content expert, educating patients, nurses, and interprofessional teams.
- Data abstraction- Data abstraction for American Heart Association Get with The Guidelines CHF and National Cardiovascular Data Registry CathPCI.
- Non-invasive cardiology (stress lab)- assisting cardiologist perform and monitor cardiac stress test inpatient and outpatient setting.
Education
BSN - Nursing
Chicago State University
Chicago, IL05-2003
MSN - Nursing Leadership And Management
Purdue Northwest University
Hammond08-2025
Skills
- Clinical leadership
- HIPAA compliance
- Patient treatment planning
- HIPAA requirements
Certification
- BLS- Basic Life Support
- AHA ACLS- Advanced Cardiovascular Life
Affiliations
- American Nurses Association (ANA)
- Illinois Organization of Nurse Leaders
Timeline
Clinical Operations Nursing Supervisor
John Stroger Hospital
02.2024 - Current
PRN Field Nurse
Advocate Home Health
07.2023 - Current
Emergency Department Assistant Nurse Manager
St. Bernard Hospital
07.2023 - 01.2024
RN Lead
Advocate Home Health
08.2022 - 07.2023
COVID Contract Nurse
All Medical Staffing Network
01.2021 - 03.2023
Case Management
Kindred at Home Health Agency
09.2020 - 02.2022
Case Management
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
10.2018 - 09.2020
ICU/CCU/Telemetry Staff Nurse
Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
09.2008 - 09.2020
BSN - Nursing
Chicago State University
MSN - Nursing Leadership And Management
Purdue Northwest University
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