Kathryn Kleinsorge RN, BSN
Agency
Summary
Results-driven Registered Nurse with extensive experience in ambulatory surgery, emergency care, staff training, and quality assurance. Successfully oversee clinical operations, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and improving patient outcomes through effective collaboration and critical thinking.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Registered Nurse
St. Joseph Center for Outpatient Surgery
Saint Joseph
04.2009 - Current
- Clinical Nurse Manager, Jan. 2025-present.
- Preoperative/PACU RN, 2009-present.
- Nurse Navigator, 2016-2021.
- In charge of overseeing daily operations of staffing and collaborating with anesthesia services, while maintaining a high level of patient care as a top priority.
- Hiring, overseeing training, and evaluating all new clinical employees.
- Ensure employees follow policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Monitor patient feedback, outcomes, and resolve any issues that arise.
- Collaborated with the administrator on overseeing the building of an EMR (Surgical Informatics System). This included training staff in the transition to an EMR from paper charting at the facility.
- Member of quality assurance and process improvement committee.
- Coordinate care for total knee, hip, and shoulder replacements.
- Collaborate in the development of a total joint program with physicians and the nurse management team.
- Collect data, track patient outcomes, and input information to a platform for national reporting.
- Provide patient education using PowerPoint and virtual platforms.
- Team-oriented and reliable, with expert healthcare knowledge and sound clinical judgment.
- Provide annual staff education and competencies on malignant hyperthermia and code blue drills (pediatric and adult).
- Contributed to the successful accreditation of AAHC.
- Consistently follow standards of CMS guidelines.
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Mosaic Life Care Hospital
Saint Joseph
10.2021 - 04.2023
Nurse Education Specialist
Mosaic Life Care Hospital
Saint Joseph
07.2021 - 04.2022
- Unit educator for Emergency Department
- Assess learning needs of department and individuals on the unit.
- Organize and implement yearly competencies based on the learning needs of the caregiver.
- Onboarding new hires and collaborating with leadership and preceptors on their progress through orientation pathways.
- Collaborate with leadership, and provide education during unit meetings.
- Lead the new hire nursing and patient care tech orientation.
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Mosaic Life Care Hospital
Saint Joseph
12.2005 - 12.2012
- Demonstrated ability to multitask, prioritize, and manage acutely ill patients using critical thinking.
- Experienced in physical and emotional assessment, differential nursing diagnoses, treatment, and education for a broad range of patients.
- Assist physicians in emergency procedures.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Missouri Western State University
Saint Joseph, MO12-2005
Skills
- Patient care management
- Direct patient care
- Staff training
- Daily Staffing Assignments
- Care coordination
- EMR implementation
- Patient education
- Quality assurance
- Clinical operations
- Data tracking
- Emergency care
- Critical thinking
- Conflict resolution
- Multidisciplinary collaboration
- Physical assessments
- Medication administration
Certification
Basic Life Support
Systems Experience
- Cerner
- EPIC
- Surgical Informatics System (SIS)
- One Medical Passport
- Provation APEX
- OBERD
- Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint
Timeline
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Mosaic Life Care Hospital
10.2021 - 04.2023
Nurse Education Specialist
Mosaic Life Care Hospital
07.2021 - 04.2022
Registered Nurse
St. Joseph Center for Outpatient Surgery
04.2009 - Current
Emergency Room Registered Nurse
Mosaic Life Care Hospital
12.2005 - 12.2012
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Missouri Western State University