Kayla Kidd
Greenfield Healthcare Center
Greenfield
1
Certification
12
years of professional experience
Experienced nursing professional with proven teaching expertise and devotion to building up new healthcare professionals with skills necessary to excel in today's healthcare settings. Top-notch clinical expertise, sound judgment and strengths in workflow optimization and strategic planning. Experience in nursing management roles as well.
Work History
Unit Manager
1 Year 3 Months- Overseeing three dementia units. Ensuring care is provided per policy, standard guidelines and with compassion. Ensuring safe staffing. Care plan meetings with family. Interdisciplinary meetings with clinical teams and physicians for all patients’ care. On call weekend rotation for staffing and clinical needs/concerns. Chart audits for compliance.
Triage Registered Nurse
3 Years 10 Months- Phone triage with GYN and obstetrical patients. Virtual and telephone correspondence with patients regarding questions, care, surgeries, etc. Refilling prescriptions, scheduling clinic and ultrasound appointments. Rooming and triaging patients with appointments. Patient injections, fetal heart monitoring and documentation for all visits.
Registered Nurse
4 Years 7 Months- Charge nurse on transitional care and rehab unit. Daily client care charting, med passes, ensuring wound treatments done, assisting cnas with any care they needed help with.
Director of Clinical Education
8 Months- Worked cooperatively with leadership in planning programs to identify and meet training needs and regulatory requirements. Evaluate in-service training to develop programs that maintain and enhance nursing employees' clinical skills. In collaboration with the appropriate center leadership, responsible for recruitment, selection, onboarding, and retention of staff. Developed relationships with the local healthcare community to support training initiatives. Attended daily clinical meetings to ensure best patient care is given by all staff.
MDS Coordinator
9 Months- Oversee and facilitate the completion of resident assessments. Ensured compliance with Federal and State regulations. Care plan completion and updating on all residents. Attended care plan meetings. Assisted in admission process to ensure clinical and skill-able needs were met.
Assistant Director of Nursing
5 Months- Daily clinical meetings, assisting DON with daily tasks, wound rounds, managing nurse clinical staff, ensuring daily documentation is completed, weekly physician rounding, assisting MD and NP with resident needs, worked with IDT team to ensure safety of residents was met after falls, injuries, etc. Infection prevention, weekly audit tools to ensure infection prevention is completed. Perform staff education and disciplinary action if needed for nursing team. Pharmacy auditing. Served as floor nurse during high-demand periods.
Assistant Director of Nursing
11 Months- Daily clinical meetings, assisting DON with daily tasks, wound rounds with wound doctor, managing nurse management team, ensuring daily documentation was completed, weekly physician rounding, assisting MD and NP with resident needs, worked with IDT team to ensure safety of residents was met after falls, injuries, etc. Responsible for weekly reports sent to RDCO and corporate. Perform staff education and disciplinary action if needed for nursing team.
Registered Nurse, L&D
1 Year 6 Months- Caring for patients in labor, postpartum, antepartum, and newborns. Admitting patients per physician orders, carrying out orders as given by physicians. Completed documentation appropriate for patients. Completed fetal monitoring to ensure well being of fetus and mother. Assisted in the OR for surgical patients. Educating patients with newborns. Floating to ICU and ER as needed.
Registered Nurse
2 Years 3 Months- Charge nurse on long term care unit, as well as on transitional care and rehab unit. Daily client care charting, med passes, ensuring wound treatments done, assisting cnas with any care they needed help with.
Education
Associates Degree - Nursing Science
Skills
Dementia care
Infection control
Staffing Coordination
Staff development
Training and mentoring
Professionalism
Certification
- Registered Nurse
- CPR Certified
- Certified Dementia Practitioner
Timeline
Unit Manager
Greenfield Healthcare Center
05.2025 - CurrentRead More
Triage Registered Nurse
Hancock OB-Gyn
07.2021 - 05.2025Read More
Registered Nurse
Greenfield Healthcare Center
10.2020 - 05.2025Read More
Director of Clinical Education
Golden Living Centers
01.2020 - 09.2020Read More
MDS Coordinator
Providence Anderson Post-Acute Care
04.2019 - 01.2020Read More
Assistant Director of Nursing
ManorCare at SummerTrace
11.2018 - 04.2019Read More
Assistant Director of Nursing
Greenfield Healthcare Center
12.2017 - 11.2018Read More
Registered Nurse, L&D
Henry Community Health
06.2016 - 12.2017Read More
Registered Nurse
Kindred Transition Care and Rehab
03.2014 - 06.2016Read More
Med Tech College
Associates Degree from Nursing Science
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