Melanie Vigil

• Develops and implements orientation, competency management, continuing education, and professional development of the clinical staff

• Provides support to onboarding and core staff

• Conducts competency needs assessments

• Collaborates with leadership team to develop education based on the needs of the department

• Manages and directs interventions to align with the Colorado Hospital Transformation Program to meet agreed upon milestones initiatives and timelines

• Provides ongoing performance assessment, analyzes clinical data, and identifies improvement opportunities or trends

• Conducts quality assessments, collects information, and works with process owner on performance improvement

• Serves as a resource and/or facilitates improvement teams to plan, implement, and coordinates activities to maximize clinical and operational outcomes

Assures that quality patient care provided to all patients meets or exceeds established standards. Provides leadership for Strategic and Operational planning of Patient Care Service areas. Responsible for managing and communicating GRMC policies to nursing areas and acts as a liaison to the medical staff and governing board.

• Responsible for overseeing inpatient, outpatient, and ancillary departments daily activities

• Collaboration with nursing leadership to achieve patient satisfaction goals

• Participate in strategic planning for organization goals and implementation

• Direct budgetary and financial responsibilities of assigned departments which includes over 130 FTEs

• Complete performance reviews, promotion, and merit evaluation recommendations

• Mentor's new leaders and influences culture change

• Ensures processes audited by State Survey agencies are successful and will be responsible with Quality Administrator to develop and implement remediation plans to address findings

Maternal/Child Department Gila Regional Medical Center

• Managed a diverse team of caregivers to promote safe and effective patient care

• Collaborated with other nursing leaders to pursue quality patient care

• Responsible for developing new policies and protocols

• Assisted with budget management

OB Unit (LD/PP/N)

• Delegates patient assignments to staff nurses and flex staff according to census

• Preceptor to new employees to the department

• Member of the Maternal Designation Committee, QAPI, Fall Committee, and DETRAC

• Assists manager with unit specific competency skills and drill education

OB Unit (LD/PP/N)

• Responsible for organizing and moving into a new 12 LDRP unit, 2 Operating rooms, and 2 Triage rooms

• Provided a safe and healthy environment for patient care

• Responsible for organizing multidisciplinary involvement of drills and unit education

• Mentor to staff

• Hiring coordinator

OB Unit (LD/PP/N)

• Responsible for managing the budget, staff schedules, and committee meetings

• Supervisor of staff nurses and patient care

• Committee member of many hospital wide committees, specifically quality, DETRAC, and TexasAim

Short Stay Surgical Unit

• Provide pre/post operative care for patients for all surgical procedures

• Provide all care to patients undergoing endoscopy, urological, obstetrical, and bone and joint procedures

• Serve as a resource to staff for obstetrical patients while in the outpatient surgical area

Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, and Newborn Nurse LDRP and Nursery Unit

• Perform all cares provided to laboring women (labor assessment, high risk pregnancy assessment, antepartum care, cervical exams, medication administration

• Administer care for post-delivery patients

• Competent to perform all newborn cares: assessments, vital signs, and newborn medications

• Able to prepare patient for Cesarean Section

Labor and Delivery

• Educated and trained all new staff to the Operating rooms

• Manage and designate staff assignments

• Resource nurse to Obstetricians and staff

• Participated in new hire interviews and orientation schedule

• Circulating nurse in the Operating Room

Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, and Newborn Nurse LDRP and Nursery Unit

• Scrub in as first assistant to Obstetricians during Cesarean Sections

• Relieve staff nurses for breaks and lunch

• Participated in staff yearly reviews and evaluations

• Participated in new hire interviews and orientation schedule

• Manage and edit staff timecards for payroll

• Head of scheduling committee for LDRP staff

• Experienced in fast paced, high volume deliveries 300 per month

• Perform all cares provided to laboring women (labor assessment, high risk pregnancy assessment, antepartum care, cervical exams, medication administration, etc...)

• Co-chair of the Fetal Demise Committee