Professional Profile

For the past decade, I have worked as a perioperative nurse, and for many years 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 develop. I was the team lead for my facility's 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 in my final semester of the MSN Nursing Informatics program at Texas Tech, and my goal is to move into a full-time informatics role where I can combine my love of technology with my nursing skills!