MIGUEL RECABARREN

• Nursing leader for a 15-bed CCU with 41 direct reports.
• Leadership over: Infection Prevention Task Force, Unit Quality Improvement/Process Improvement, Trach Education Council, SEMS, Patient Experience, PS&Q CLABSI, STEMI Council, NLAC, daily operations, payroll and timecards, interviews for staff, and key leadership roles.
• Yearly Skills Day Creation and Training for RNs and PCTs.
• Project development for RNs in support of clinical ladder progression.
• Successful completion of Comprehensive Cardiac Center recertification.
• Support Baxter Pump integration and transition for the CCU and organization.
• Support New Tower Move, Readiness, and Training.
• Plaza West Tower: A Hard Hat Tour Promotional Video.

• 20 Bed-Level I CVICU/Transplant Surgery ICU.
• Leading and directing the CVICU team, consisting of 75 RN FTEs and 7 PCTs/Externs. Interim Leader, MICU/BMT.
• Janet Muller Award for Quality and Patient Safety.
• State compliance and recognition for the 2023 STEMI Survey Achievement.
• Decreased Infections from 2022 by half in 2023.
• Steward of financial and productivity management.
• Process improvement solutions between provider services, nursing, and support services.
• Multi-hospital coordination for CTS standardization of care.
• Education and training programs for ECMO and Cardiothoracic Surgery.
• Compliance with state and regulatory standards. Survey achievements for 2023 and 2024.
• Overseeing staff education for critical care skills, invasive monitoring and devices, and yearly compliance certifications/training.
• Authorship of the CRRT initiation and management in the O.R. program. Standardized program throughout all ICUs.
• Coordination and submission of budget requests for thermodilution in support of a new CTS team. Author of a nursing training and education program for thermodilution, with order set creation.

Permanent Weekend Charge Nurse- 4N CVICU/Transplant Surgery

• 20 bed-Level I CVICU/Transplant ICU
• Post-op CABG, Impella's, IABP, valve repairs, TEVAR, aortic dissection repairs, femoral/popliteal bypass, EKOS endovascular system, invasive monitoring SWAN Ganz’s catheters, A-lines, CVP monitoring, CO/CI/SVO2 monitoring, ICP monitoring, pacing, liver, kidney, and pancreas transplants, HIPEC patients, varying trauma/neuro patients, ECMO, and combination support systems, COVID ARDS patients, paralyzed and proning, CRRT, mechanical ventilation.
• Preceptor, fill-in Charge Nurse
• 1:2/1:1/2:1 ratio
• Epic Systems, Space Labs

• Emergency/Trauma
• ICU

• Top-Dog Award for Stroke and STEMI.
• Preceptor/Charge Nurse.
• Committee Leadership: Neuroscience, Infection Control, Unit Council, Pediatric Council, Policies & Procedures Co-Chair, and Nurse Residency Alumni Association. ED leader for FMEA, Emergency Room, to Behavioral Health transition council.
• Night Shift Trainer for EZ-IO, competency, and applications.
• Author of hospital policies: Pediatric Urine Collection Policy, Blood Culture Collection Policy and education of all emergency room staff.