About Us
¨Kathleen
Martin, RN, MSN, MPA, LNHA¨
368 White Oak Ridge Road,
Short Hills, NJ 07078
phone:
973-912-9154
email: martgatt@yahoo.com
fax: 973-912-9702
EXPERIENCE
¨Pope
John Paul II Pavilion/St. Mary’s Life Care Center,
S.
Center St., Orange, NJ.
Administrator, October 2001-present.
Responsible for all clinical, regulatory, and
financial aspects of operations in 187 bed: sub-acute care, ventilator unit, LTC
units and Asst. Liv; 250+ employees, 1199 Union; 18M budget; JCAHO & SDOH surveys; All facility departments and 3
contracted services reporting; Administrator reports to management company
HospiCommÔ,
Phil., PA and owner, Cathedral
Health Care System, Newark, NJ.
¨The
Berkeley Heights Convalescent Center/Atlantic Health System,
Cottage
St, Berkeley Heights, NJ.
Assistant
Administrator,
February-October 2001.
Responsible
for the departments of Nursing,
Medical Records, Maintenance and facility upgrade, Housekeeping, Dietary;
Regulatory Affairs & Surveys, CQI, with over 125 employees, 2 contracted
service departments, one Union in 130 bed bld.; Administrative responsibilities
including financial, budgetary, staffing, Human Resource, Risk Management,
Admissions procedures, JCAHO, and SDOH compliance; deficiency free SDOH survey;
Fluent in Word, Excel, Internet, Graphics programs.
Director of
Nursing, September 1999-February 2001.
Responsible
for 80 nursing and ancillary staff; staffing, budget of dept., standards
compliance, policies and procedures, Infection Control, Education, Wound Care,
Fall Prevention programs, MDS-Clinical Reimbursement and Utilization Review.
2
SDOH surveys; 1 JCAHO survey.
¨Genesis
Elder/Sub-Acute Care-The Westfield Center,
Lamberts
Mill Rd, Westfield, NJ.
Assistant
Director of Nursing,
January 1999-June 1999.
Responsible
for 24 hour staffing of LTC and Sub-Acute care unit, 235 beds; aprox 150+ FTEs
in dept.; Staff Education,
Infection Control, SDOH prep; 1 survey; Staff competency, CQI, Dining Program.
¨Martin
Associates/Nursing Associates
Short Hills, NJ.
Proprietor;
small Medical-Legal consulting business for defense and plaintiff attorneys;
insurance companies. 1990-present.
¨Jersey
City Medical Center,
Baldwin
Ave., Jersey City, NJ.
Director of
Nursing: Critical
Care-3 units/Intermediate Care/Emergency Dept/Surgical Svc./Endoscopy
Unit/Cardiac Cath Lab./PACU/Transport Svc.
March
1990-February 1998.
Responsible
for management of division
consisting of 250+ nursing and ancillary personnel, 140 beds, 3 out-patient
depts, $28M+ budget; assist in development of dept. capital budget; develop
policies and maintain standards within JCAHO and SDOH; 3 JCAHO surveys; 2 ACS
(American College of Surgeons) reviews for Trauma designation; focus on finance
and reimbursement issues in Endoscopy and ER; wrote and obtained $200K NIRA
grant dealing with work-redesign; implemented CQI and TQM programs in division;
participated in mgt team in 1199-UNO contracts in 1992 and 1994; partic in Pt.
Focused Care, Inc.
-(work re-design) co. implementation; Chair
of Pain Management Cmtee; member of Ethics cmtee, IRB cmtee; retain Joint
faculty position, Rutgers University, Newark; St. Francis School of Nursing,
Jersey City.
(Promoted
from Asst. Director of Nursing, 1991.)
¨Charter
Behavior Health Care, Inc.,
Prospect
St., Summit, NJ.
Supervisor/Staff
Nurse, Per Diem, April 1994-May 1995.
Psychiatric & medical-nursing services;
administration of medications, treatments, counseling with a variety of age
groups.
¨Franciscan
Healthcare, Inc.
Hoboken,
NJ.
Staff Nurse, ER,Per Diem, June 1994-February 1996.
¨Children’s
Specialized Hospital,
Mountainside, NJ.
Supervisor, Per Diem, August 1992-1993.
¨Hoffman-LaRoche,
Inc,
Kingsland
Ave, Nutley, NJ.
Clinical
Research Associate,
Anesthesiology group, January 1989-March 1990.
Responsible for designing and implementing drug
study protocols; monitoring studies; communicating with investigators; data
collection in the field; analysis; and writing final study reports. Assisted in
NDA (new drug application) to FDA for Flumazenil (Mazicon) and expanded
indications for Midazolam (VERSED) as part of a team.
¨University
Hospital-UMDNJ,
Bergen St., Newark, NJ.
Clinical
Nurse Specialist (CNS), Critical Care, September 1986-December 1988.
Medical ICU, Surgical-Trauma ICU, Neuro ICU, PACU,
Step-down unit. Responsible for providing monthly critical care courses (105
hrs); Resource and consultant to staff; assisted in patient care as needed;
marketed CC program to other facilities and generated income for dept
($8,000/yr); developed and coordinated Nursing Preceptor program, Mock Code;
CCRN Review in conjunction with Rutgers University; self-studies: ABG, ARDS,
Shock & Trauma; formulated policies/procedures for division with Director
and VP; Chairperson of 14 member CNS Cmtee; Appt Joint Faculty position at
Rutgers University, College of Nursing, Newark.
¨Criticare
Seminars, Inc.
Union-Short Hills, NJ.
President/Proprietor,
January 1982-March 1987.
Developed programs, contracted speakers, and
marketed educational programs to Critical Care Nurses nationwide.
¨Seton Hall
University,
South Orange, NJ.
Adjunct
Faculty, September 1983-June 1984.
Clinical sites with students.
¨Muhlenberg
Hospital School of Nursing,
Plainfield, NJ.
Adjunct
Faculty, Evening Program, Critical Care, September 1983- June 1984.
¨Irvington
General Hospital,
Chancellor
Ave., NJ.
Nurse Manager, Critical Care Unit, March
1982-Sept 1983.
Responsible for 30 staff in 13 bed unit; 24 hour
staffing, education, QA, survey, JCAHO; Operational
and capital budget.
¨Veteran’s
Administration Medical Center,
Tremont
Ave., East Orange, NJ.
Staff Nurse, SICU, January 1980-March 1982.
Staff Nurse, Oncology, February
1979-January 1980.
¨Hackensack
Medical Center,
Prospect St., Hackensack, NJ.
Staff Nurse, Surgical-Burn Unit.
EDUCATION
Seton Hall
University, South
Orange, NJ.
MSN-December
1982.
MPA-June
1994.
Pace
University, Pleasantville, NY.
BSN-December 1979
Bergen
Community College,
Paramus, NJ.
AAS-June 1977 (Nursing)
Christ
Hospital School of Nursing,
Jersey City, NJ.
June
1974-Dec 1975.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS
Certified by NJ Board of Nursing as a Clinical
Nurse Specialist/Advanced Practice Nurse, 1994.
Won
merit award, Department of Health and
Senior Services for Nursing Excellence; nominated by SR. VP of Pt. Care
Services, Jersey City Medical Center, 1996.
Board
Certified as expert in Traumatic Stress,
by the American Board of Experts in Traumatic Stress, 1998.
Certified
as Grief Counselor by ADEC (Assn of Death Education & Counseling), 1995.
CCRN Certified for 12 years.
ACLS
certified, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1993.
Won merit
award, 1992, for hospital innovation:
Restructuring of Nursing Services, THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVES.
Listed
in Who’s Who in American Nursing, 1989, 1990, 1992.
Inducted
into Pi Alpha Alpha, National Honor Society for Public Affairs and
Administration, 1993, Seton Hall University.
Inducted
into Sigma Theta Tau, National Nursing Honor Society, June 1982.
On
Gary Null’s nationally syndicated radio show regarding article on pain
syndromes and biofeedback therapy, 1996.
PUBLICATIONS
¨
Chapter in “Legal
Nurse Consulting”, Text, 1997,
AANLC.
¨
Editor
of Nursing Network News, JCMC Nursing Dept. newsletter, 1992-1998; 15 articles
written; professionally published.
¨
“Preparing
for Electronic Documentation System, Co-Author, Nursing Management, July 1996.
¨
“Holistic
Approaches in Psychophysiologic Pain Syndromes”, May, 1996, Journal
of Complimentary & Alternative Therapies.
¨
“A
Bereavement Program for Critical Care”, Crisis,
Illness, and Loss, (Quarterly Journal), June 1995.
¨
“Oxygen
Consumption in Septic Shock”, International
Journal of Intensive Care, December, 1991.
¨
“Septic
Shock”, in Case Studies in Critical
Care, book, Williams and Wilkins pub., Barbara Mims, 1990.
¨
“Reducing
Complications of Thoracic Trauma Due to Gunshot Wounds,” Dimensions of Critical Care, November, 1989.
¨
“Budgetary
Control for the Nurse Manager”, Nursing
Management, October, 1989.
¨
“Case
Studies in Hemodynamic Monitoring”, Critical
Care Nurse, March 1987.
LECTURES/SPEAKING
CQI: Pain Management Program Initiation, Northern
NJ Ethics Alliance, February, 2001.
Management,
CQI, & Survey topics, The
Berkeley Heights Convalescent Center, 2000-2001.
ER
Course/Trauma/Neuro; ER Course, JCMC, 1994, ’95, ’96.
Legal
Consulting, preventing risk, 1996-present, various centers.
Over
15 years of lecturing/speaking on critical care, management topics.
OTHER
Past Board of Directors member, UNITY Group, Short
Hills. Non-profit domestic violence prevention entity. Volunteer on CIT, (Crisis
Intervention Team) of Millburn-Short Hills Police Dept.; completed 45 hours of
training, Essex Cty Prosec. Office, 1995-1998.
Red
Cross Mental Health Disaster training. 20 hrs of formal training, 1997.
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