SAVANNAH THORN
Columbia
Summary
Experienced Registered Nurse (RN) highly skilled in patient care, critical thinking, and effective communication. Focused on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient safety and outcomes. Reliable, adaptable, efficient, compassionate and strong team member in dynamic environments. Equipped with clinical excellence in medical procedures, patient assessments, and care coordination.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse Specialist, Jobs and Batching
Incredible Health
01.2023 - Current
- Clinical Knowledge into Technical Excellence
- Single-threaded owner of 23 large Employer accounts' jobs and batching account management on platform
- Project management tools include Asana, Slack and back and front end of internal platform product
- Responsible for implementing client's job requisition data into active open roles on platform, built using client's custom specifications
- Gathers requirements for jobs and roles needed from recruitment team while identifying possible roadblocks and providing solutions
- Analyzes data and requirements provided, formats plan and roadmap to best accomplish requested items
- Creates and builds roles on back end of internal product using clinical knowledge of requirements, tailored to client specific requests and requirements
- Tests roles created in a variety of ways to ensure accuracy and edits template coding or formatting as needed to accommodate the final role
- Presents successful end results to recruiter advocate and client success teams and ensures appropriate talent are pulled correctly by product
- Performs account deep dive audits and reviews to investigate data fluctuations and trends, reports findings and creates action items for follow-up
- Partners closely with cross-functional Product, Customer Success, Recruiter and Talent teams to ensure jobs created are the most appropriately aligned with Employer Group's nuanced preferences and requirements
Clinic Nurse Team Lead
Lexington Brain and Spine
02.2022 - 01.2023
- Lead Clinic Nurse for surgeon team within neurosurgery practice
- Trainer and preceptor for onboarding of new hire nurses and techs, EPIC Super User
- Organized and managed care for large patient load undergoing various therapies and procedures, neurosurgery included
- Managed high-volume work-queue authorizations, referrals, updates
- Direct point of contact with surgeons, scheduler and mid-levels to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches and surgical plans
- Clinical resource lead for team related to ensuring conservative treatments and available resources were maximized while protecting patient costs and minimizing resource waste
- Consistently evaluated necessary healthcare needs with strong judgment, optimized goals for treatment and used available resources as needed
- Initiate, monitor and update referral status and orders placed as well as request authorizations/pre-authorizations needed for services and surgery, manage approvals/denials, and complete Peer2Peer reviews when applicable
- Consistently provided excellent clinical judgment, independent decision making, and detailed nursing education and instruction
- Fostered improvement in staff development, personnel training, and standards of patient care
Operating Room Nurse and Trainer
St. John's Surgery Center
08.2020 - 01.2022
- Operating room circulating nurse for two busy ORs, with procedures ranging from blepharoplasty, cataracts, corneal transplants and glaucoma
- Surgery and Pre-operative Nurse Trainer, responsible for onboarding and training new hires on procedures and protocols, surgeon and case specifics, preferences and requirements
- IV insertion and maintenance Nurse Trainer and Instructor
- Laser nurse and trainer for outpatient YAG and IPL laser procedures
- Collaborated closely with anesthesia, scrub techs and surgeon teams for patient cases from pre-op to recovery
- Monitored surgical patients and delivered high quality level nursing care before, during and after operations to promote positive outcomes
- Extreme focus to detail and sterile technique during timeouts on planned surgical procedure, instruments and safety protocols
- Strong focus on clear, kind and effective patient and staff communication and education
- Ensure proper equipment, packs, sutures and materials are pulled and rooms are set up for surgeon per preference cards and nuanced case and patient specifics
Registered Nurse, Stepdown ICU
Lee Health
05.2019 - 08.2020
- Strong graduate nurse on very busy high acuity progressive care step-down unit
- COVID-19 Crisis Nurse
- Recognized as high performing employee with strong, effective defensive documentation skills and sound clinical judgement
- Consistent high performer and strong advocate for patient needs, care plans and anticipated discharge or transfer
- Highly skilled in management of high flow oxygen devices such as Vapotherm, BiPAP, CPAP devices
- Skilled code team member during Code Blue, Nurse STAT and Rapid Response calls
- Well-rounded assistance and contribution with complete patient care coordination and case management meetings including discharge meetings, plans and transportation arrangements
- Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions
- Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses
- Educated patients, families and caregivers on diagnosis and prognosis, treatment options, disease process, and management and lifestyle options
Education
Associate's of Nursing, ADN RN -
Florida Southwestern State College
Fort Myers, FL05.2019
Skills
- Strong Clinical Judgment
- Excellent Technical and Assessment Skills
- Patient Education and Counseling
- Strong Patient and Family Advocate
- Compassionate and Empathetic
- Cardiac Telemetry Monitoring
- Experienced Preceptor and Trainer
- IV/PO/IM Medication Administration
- Discharge Planning
- Healthcare Team Coordination and Care Management
- Strong, Effective, Highly Organized Communication
Certification
- RN NLC Compact, South Carolina: 265651 (exp 4/2026)
LANGUAGES
English | Native
Native or Bilingual
Spanish | Intermediate
Professional Working
Timeline
Nurse Specialist, Jobs and Batching
Incredible Health
01.2023 - Current
Clinic Nurse Team Lead
Lexington Brain and Spine
02.2022 - 01.2023
Operating Room Nurse and Trainer
St. John's Surgery Center
08.2020 - 01.2022
Registered Nurse, Stepdown ICU
Lee Health
05.2019 - 08.2020
Associate's of Nursing, ADN RN -
Florida Southwestern State College
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