Professional Profile

For the past decade, I have worked as a perioperative nurse, and honestly, I thought that's where I'd stay. But between becoming the EHR superuser for our OR and teaching staff how to actually use the technology in front of them, I realized I was more excited about that side of the job than almost anything else.

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Over the years I've done a little bit of everything: circulating in the OR, managing materials and vendor relationships, acting as Director of Nursing, and most recently, pediatric urgent care. Working with kids and families has been a whole new dimension of nursing that I didn't expect to love as much as I do. It's also reinforced how much documentation quality, workflow design, and medication safety affect patient care.

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My perioperative background is where my informatics instincts really began to form. I led the go-live for HST Pathways and HST eChart, worked alongside leadership to maintain EHR integrity, and spent a lot of time digging into data, standardizing processes, and figuring out why things weren't working the way they should. That sort of problem-solving is what I love to take part in the most.

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I'm currently finishing my Master's in Nursing Informatics at Texas Tech, and my goal is to move into a full-time informatics role where I can do that kind of work every day. I'm especially passionate about medication safety and using data and technology to address drug diversion, which remains one of the most serious and underreported problems facing healthcare systems today. By tackling this issue and making strides to reduce diversion incidents, we can also reduce liability and, at the same time, protect both patients and staff.