Jolene Harvison
McLain
Summary
Driven registered nurse with 33.5 years of experience caring for patients within a hospital setting. Smoothly deliver comprehensive patient care and delegate tasks according to patient needs and personnel skillsets. Dedicated to providing top quality care within multidisciplinary team environment. I have been a team member of Merit Health Wesley my entire career. I have held several positions throughout my tenure there including Charge Nurse and Nurse Manager. For the last 3 years I have been auditing charts for Quality improvement for Sepsis and Stroke. I abstracted Stroke data from the medical record of all patients that came through our ED and discussed opportunities with physicians and staff. All patients that coded to Stroke were entered into GWTG stroke registry. Our facility received the Stroke Gold plus award this year from the registry.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
Registered Nurse
Merit Health Wesley
Hattiesburg
05.1991 - 09.2024
- Ensured compliance with regulatory agencies such as The Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
- Participated in interdisciplinary meetings with other healthcare providers involved in treating stroke patients.
- Educated staff members on the signs and symptoms of strokes so they can be identified quickly in an emergency situation.
- Created a system for tracking outcomes of stroke patients in order to identify areas for improvement.
- Developed protocols for responding quickly and effectively to acute strokes within the hospital setting.
- Maintained records of all patient information according to HIPAA regulations.
- Maintained accurate and confidential patient records in accordance with HIPAA regulations.
- Improve policies and procedures through development, implementation, revision and evaluation of new protocols.
- Participated in the development and review of clinical policies and procedures.
- Monitored patient care to ensure adherence to established clinical guidelines and standards.
- Analyzed and evaluated trends in collected data.
- Prepared presentations summarizing findings based on collected data.
- Monitored progress of projects related to data abstraction activities.
- Extracted data from medical records into computerized databases.
- Participated in meetings with other departments within the organization to discuss any potential changes needed in order to improve the accuracy of the data abstraction process.
- Created detailed reports based on analysis of data.
- Communicated with physicians, nurses, coders, administrators, and other personnel regarding issues related to data abstraction.
- Maintained confidentiality of patient information according to HIPAA regulations.
- Identified areas where additional training was needed among staff members responsible for abstracting patient information.
- Maintained positive working relationship with fellow staff and management.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS05-1991
Skills
- Quality improvement initiatives
- Protocol development
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Process Improvements
- Multidisciplinary team collaboration
- Improving clinical quality outcomes
- Clinical Leadership
- Patient Care
- HIPAA compliant
- Clinical data collection
- Unit supervision
- Compliance with regulatory guidelines
- Clinical Documentation
- Data Compilation
- Computerized charting
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Merit Health Wesley
05.1991 - 09.2024
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University of Southern Mississippi