Tia Vilardo
Ponchatoula
Summary
Strong clinical nurse with 19 years of experience seeking to apply my skills to promote the delivery of excellent, quality patient care at the bedside
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse- Medical/Surgical Stepdown
Ochsner Medical Center
05.2023 - Current
- Effectively uses the nursing process in the delivery of patient care.
- Manage insulin, cardiac, and heparin drips
- Maintain chest tubes, NG tubes, gastro tubes, and various drains
- Perform wound care on both surgical and chronic wounds
- Provide care to general Medical-Surgical and stepdown appropriate patients
- Assess the needs of the patient and educate them according to their learning needs assessment
- Communicate with the healthcare team to provide care
- Utilize EMR for documentation- EPIC
- Precept new nurses to the unit
Nursing Director Medical Surgical
Ochsner Medical Center
11.2019 - 05.2023
- Drive engagement and retention through action plans and unit processes
- Manage quality metrics and patient experience
- Facilitate and support staff career growth
- Lead and support change management on the unit
- Manage financial operability and daily budget
- Maintain open communication with staff and healthcare team
- Monitored and evaluated nursing staff performance, providing feedback and guidance to support standards of care.
- Participated in various committees for process improvements
- Oversaw and approved recruitment, hiring and orientation of new nursing staff
- Piloted staffing model for ratios
- Established new policies and updated existing policies to improve standard of care for patients.
- Assist with clinical roles (OC/bedside) to ensure quality patient care, when needed
Director Of Cardiology
East Jefferson General Hospital
01.2019 - 11.2019
- Oversee multiple cardiology departments including Cath lab, Echocardiogram, EKG, and Cardiac Rehab
- Monitor daily productivity
- Create, improve, and implement patient care processes to align with best practice guidelines
- Participate in organizational process improvements to impact ease of patient access, patient flow, and patient satisfaction
- Collaborate with staff to maintain patient flow within each area
- Lead routine Cardiology division meetings
- Effectively plan and budget for both operational and capital expenses
- Negotiate both supply and equipment contracts with various vendors
- Function in a clinical role to assist with patient care and throughput
- Round routinely to monitor patient satisfaction
Clinical Nurse Manager
East Jefferson General Hospital
07.2014 - 01.2019
- Supervise and evaluate all patient care, processes, and policies for the Endoscopy, Cath Lab, Pain Management Procedures, and Peripheral Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) units
- Analyze and evaluate operational budget for all units monthly and annually
- Manage and coordinate equipment, supplies, staffing, and daily patient scheduling
- Create, improve, and implement patient care processes to align with best practice guidelines
- Develop infection control policies and procedures according to CDC guidelines
- Implement and maintain staff competencies, equipment logs, high level disinfecting records, and scope reprocessing procedures in accordance with JACHO requirements
- Verify and edit procedure charges daily
- Develop charge nurse roles to promote career growth in the first year
- Facilitate shared governance committees within the units
- Function as pre- op, intra-op, post-op nurse in any department, when needed
Registered Nurse
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
07.2012 - 08.2014
- Provided nursing care by utilizing the nursing process
- Admitted and discharge patients
- Collaborated with physician to meet pateint needs
- Assisted with staffing needs as PRN nurse
- Participated in the selection of the initial electronic medical record system
- Other duties as assigned
Registered Nurse
East Jefferson General Hospital
08.2006 - 07.2014
- Delivered patient care utilizing the nursing care process
- Provided education and teaching to patients and family members
- Managed and maintained care of general Medical-Surgical and post-op GI/GU patients
- Managed continuous bladder irrigation (CBI), PCA pumps, nasogastric (NG) tubes, chest tubes, and various drains
- Preceptor for new nurses
- Charge nurse, when needed
- Assisted in teaching at the annual skills fair
- Cerner Superuser
- Participated in the skin and wound assessment team (SWAT) to analyze and evaluate the incidence of patient pressure ulcers
- Other duties as assigned
Registered Nurse- Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Ochsner Medical Center
05.2025 - Current
Education
Master of Science - Nursing
Loyola University
New Orleans, Louisiana2017
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Our Lady of Holy Cross College
New Orleans, Louisiana2006
Skills
- Inpatient and Outpatient care
- Strong clinical judgment
- Autonomous
- Excellent communication skills
- Preceptor
- EPIC EMR
Accomplishments
- Great 100 nurse- 2010
- Nurse Excellence- Leader of the year 2021
- Clinical Leader of the year 2022
Certification
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification
References
References available upon request
Timeline
Registered Nurse- Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Ochsner Medical Center
05.2025 - Current
Registered Nurse- Medical/Surgical Stepdown
Ochsner Medical Center
05.2023 - Current
Nursing Director Medical Surgical
Ochsner Medical Center
11.2019 - 05.2023
Director Of Cardiology
East Jefferson General Hospital
01.2019 - 11.2019
Clinical Nurse Manager
East Jefferson General Hospital
07.2014 - 01.2019
Registered Nurse
St. Bernard Parish Hospital
07.2012 - 08.2014
Registered Nurse
East Jefferson General Hospital
08.2006 - 07.2014
Master of Science - Nursing
Loyola University
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Our Lady of Holy Cross College
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