Beverly Hansen OMalley

Professional Skills and Experience

Registered Nursing

• General duty registered nurse in various areas including medical, surgical, extended care, and community (clinical trials)
• Supervision and teaching in a variety of clinical settings including Intermediate care, ECU, medicine, surgery, orthopedics, urology
• Program coordination in both educational and clinical settings in registered nursing programs
• Research nurse experience with vaccine clinical trials

Research

• Understanding and interpreting protocols
• Implementation of clinical trials
• Recruitment of study participants
• Administration of vaccines
• Collection of data
• Accurate record keeping

Education

• Experienced in adult education teaching nursing curriculum in a college and university setting
• Experienced with students from a wide variety of backgrounds including different cultural and socio-economic groups, and most recently internationally educated nurses (registered)
• All aspects of teaching including nursing skills, theory, lab, and clinical practice
• Coordination and evaluation of clinical placement facilities
• Various teaching modalities including lecture, class discussion, group work, co-operative education, and competent in e-classroom applications
• Curriculum evaluation and preparation of reports for CLPNBC approval of a practical nurse education program.
• Curriculum planning, development, and implementation of nursing and non- nursing courses
• Designing instruction materials and modules, most recently for both online and classroom delivery for two graduate nurse re-entry programs Including one for internationally educated nurses.
• Experience on the CNATS (Canadian Nurses Association Testing Service) item writing committee (1980 and 1984)

Nursing Management (LTC)

• Financial planning and management of the departmental budget over $1,000,000
• Clinical leadership and supervision to nurses and care aides.
• Program planning, implementation, and evaluation ( Eg hydration, fall prevention, musculoskeletal injury prevention)
• Writing reports for both internal and external reporting requirements
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory standards (accreditation and licensing)
• Writing clinical procedures, job descriptions, performance standards and performance indicators
• Maintaining established partnerships with external partners and establishing new ones as needed.
• Identifying staff learning needs and planning/teaching education sessions
• Liaison with families and community partners
• Investigation of incidents and accidents
• successfully introduced the role of LPN to the facility

Accomplishments

• Listed reviewer: Kozier et al, Fundamentals of Canadian Nursing - Concept, Process, and Practice 2nd ed. Pearson 2008


• Approved Curriculum Evaluator with the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of BC (2006-2009)


• Curriculum development:
• author of the Dimensional curriculum for practical nursing in BC.


• Redesign of nursing curriculum to include on-line storage of learning resources, development of curriculum maps, writing class learning objectives, learning modules, learning evaluations, and course websites for 2 registered nurse re-entry programs


• Successful proposal: Trial of a Ceiling Lift OHSABC $100,000: This research project resulted in a grant of $100,000 under the OHSABC stakeholders initiative


• Successful Proposal to the Vancouver Richmond Regional Health Board for funding of a full time equivalent registered nurse under the BCNU workload enhancement project negotiated in the 1998 collective agreement


• MSIP Program: Provided leadership to the intermediate care facility in their initiative to reduce musculoskeletal injuries . This initiative was successful in reducing claims costs by two third.Also provided the leadership for the implementation and design of an ergonomic risk assessment program and a light duties return to work program


• Hydration program for an intermediate care facility which resulted in a measurable reduction in urinary tract infections

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