TAYLOR SMITH
Kannapolis,NC
Summary
Clinical healthcare professional with an MSN and over 6 years of experience in pediatric and adult care. Expertise in clinical documentation, care coordination, quality improvement, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Skilled in analyzing complex clinical data, developing educational resources, and ensuring adherence to organizational policies. Proficient Epic super user with a deep understanding of clinical workflows, aiming to enhance clinical validation, documentation improvement, and healthcare operations.
Overview
1
1
Certification
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Unit-Based Committee Lead — Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital
Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital
01.2024 - Current
- Lead unit-level quality-improvement and evidence-based practice initiatives.
- Identify opportunities for improvement and coordinate development, implementation, and dissemination of educational resources.
- Facilitate collaboration among staff and support adoption of updated practices, processes, and equipment.
- Communicate organizational and service-line changes in a clear and actionable manner.
Sepsis Committee Representative
LCH
12.2021 - Current
- Served as unit representative for pediatric sepsis initiatives.
- Translated sepsis guidelines and organizational policy into practical staff education.
- Participated in discussions regarding Epic clinical alerts, criteria, and electronic documentation/forms.
- Helped develop standardized resources to support consistent sepsis management.
Patient Experience Committee
- Collaborated with colleagues to identify opportunities to improve healthcare practices and the patient/family experience.
- Contributed to initiatives designed to improve communication, consistency, and quality of care.
Staffing Committee
LCH
01.2025 - Current
- Participated in discussions surrounding staffing workflows, productivity, resource utilization, budgeting, and operational improvement.
- Contributed frontline clinical perspective to operational decision-making.
Magnet Committee
- Supported organizational readiness related to Magnet standards and evaluation.
- Educated staff and helped organize unit-level quality-improvement information and outcomes.
Part-Time Lecturer | Adult Medical-Surgical & Pediatric Clinical Education
QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE
01.2026 - Current
- Evaluate student clinical performance through observation, review of clinical reasoning, documentation, communication, and application of evidence-based practice.
- Analyzed clinical situations with students, guiding connections between patient presentation, medical history, diagnoses, interventions, and outcomes to enhance clinical understanding.
- Teach students to interpret clinical information and apply nursing standards, policies, and evidence to patient-care decisions.
- Identified learning gaps and developed individualized teaching strategies and resources to effectively address them.
- Collaborate with course coordinators and clinical partners to ensure educational and clinical expectations are consistently applied.
- Provided detailed feedback that improved clinical judgment, documentation, organization, communication, and professional practice among students.
- Clinical site: Advocate Health Pineville, Adult Intermediate Care/ICCU.
Part-Time Lecturer | Pediatric Clinical Education
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
05.2025 - Current
- Evaluated nursing students' clinical interpretation, diagnosis recognition, and application of evidence-based standards, enhancing student competency in pediatric care.
- Reviewed student documentation and clinical reasoning, identifying specific improvement opportunities to foster critical thinking and clinical skills.
- Provide timely, specific feedback and education based on established academic and clinical standards.
- Review student documentation and clinical reasoning to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Translate complex clinical concepts into clear, accessible educational content.
- Taught complex pediatric specialties including cardiology, nephrology, urology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, trauma, general surgery, and pulmonology, ensuring comprehensive understanding of diverse clinical scenarios.
Registered Nurse | Clinical Quality, Education & Operations Focus
ATRIUM HEALTH — LEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
07.2021 - Current
- Provide clinical expertise within a complex pediatric healthcare environment while contributing to documentation, education, quality improvement, workflow development, and interdisciplinary operations.
- Review and interpret complex clinical information across medical records to understand patient diagnoses, clinical histories, treatments, procedures, medications, responses to care, and changes in clinical status.
- Apply clinical judgment and evidence-based knowledge to evaluate whether clinical information is consistent with the patient's presentation and plan of care.
- Identified gaps in patient and family education, clinical workflows, and communication, developing targeted resources to enhance understanding and care delivery.
- Serve as an Epic super user, supporting effective use of the electronic medical record and helping colleagues navigate clinical documentation and electronic workflows.
- Lead unit-based evidence-based practice and quality-improvement education, identifying practice needs and translating organizational standards into practical resources for staff.
- Developed and disseminated educational content on clinical processes, equipment changes, service-line updates, and evidence-based practices, ensuring staff are informed and compliant.
- Collaborate with physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, social workers, psychiatrists, case-management teams, therapists, and outside facilities to ensure accurate communication and continuity of care.
- Analyze complex clinical situations and communicate relevant patient information to interdisciplinary stakeholders to support appropriate care decisions and transitions.
- Participate in patient experience initiatives focused on identifying opportunities to improve healthcare processes and the patient/family experience.
- Contributed to staffing and service-line committees to enhance healthcare workflows., contributing to discussions surrounding workflows, productivity, resource utilization, operational needs, and opportunities for improvement.
- Precept nursing students and newly licensed nurses, assessing clinical performance, documentation, clinical reasoning, communication, and adherence to established standards.
- Participate in pediatric sepsis initiatives, helping translate clinical guidelines and organizational policy into staff education and standardized resources.
- Contribute to development and implementation of standardized clinical resources, including push-pull fluid bolus kits and electronic workflow/documentation considerations.
- Participate in Magnet-related initiatives involving quality improvement, staff education, organizational standards, and presentation of unit-level outcomes.
- Provide care across complex neurological, orthopedic, trauma, psychiatric, respiratory, developmental, and chronic disease populations, developing broad clinical knowledge applicable to medical-record review and clinical validation.
IBD Nurse Navigator | Clinical Operations & Care Coordination
ATRIUM HEALTH — LEVINE CHILDREN'S SPECIALTY CENTER
08.2023 - 11.2024
- Coordinated complex specialty care while serving as a central point of communication among patients, families, providers, pharmacies, infusion centers, pharmaceutical companies, and external healthcare organizations.
- Served as a primary point of contact for complex patient cases, synthesizing clinical information and communicating relevant details to multiple stakeholders.
- Coordinated care plans across providers, infusion centers, specialty pharmacies, pharmaceutical organizations, and outside healthcare teams.
- Coordinated care plans with providers, infusion centers, specialty pharmacies, pharmaceutical organizations, and external healthcare teams to ensure seamless patient care.
- Identified treatment barriers and developed targeted solutions for insurance coverage, medication access, specialty pharmacy requirements, infusion services, and pharmaceutical assistance programs to enhance patient access to care.
- Maintained detailed understanding of IBD disease processes, medications, treatment pathways, and multidisciplinary management requirements.
- Created individualized educational materials based on clinical information, treatment plans, medication regimens, and identified patient/family needs.
- Provided education regarding injectable medications, disease management, treatment adherence, and care-plan implementation.
- Assessed patient and family resources and understanding to ensure successful adherence to established treatment plans and foster better health outcomes.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to identify gaps in care and coordinate appropriate interventions.
- Participated in clinical research initiatives, including obtaining patient/family consent and assent and serving as a member of the research care team.
- Worked within established clinical, organizational, insurance, and pharmaceutical guidelines while identifying practical solutions to barriers in care delivery.
- Managed multiple active patient needs simultaneously while maintaining organization, timely communication, and attention to detail.
Registered Nurse | Adult Acute Care
NOVANT HEALTH — MATTHEWS MEDICAL CENTER
07.2020 - 07.2021
- Managed patients with complex and frequently changing clinical presentations, requiring prioritization, clinical reasoning, and careful attention to documentation.
- Managed complex, frequently changing patient conditions, ensuring prioritization and precise documentation.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams, effectively communicating clinical information and coordinating comprehensive patient care.
- Maintained accurate clinical documentation while managing high-volume and high-acuity patient populations.
- Maintained accurate clinical documentation for high-volume, high-acuity patients, supporting quality care delivery.
Education
Master of Science - Nursing — Nursing Education
University of North Carolina Wilmington
2023
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Queens University of Charlotte
2020
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
The College of Charleston
2018
Skills
- Chart review
- Clinical Documentation
- Clinical validation
- Medical terminology
- Quality Improvement
- Process Improvement
- Clinical Information Analysis
- Healthcare Documentation & Compliance
- Documentation compliance
- Epic EMR
- Cerner
- Clinical Quality Improvement
- Patient Outcome Analysis
- Patient education
- Policy implementation
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Clinical Research & Consent/Assent
- Staff Education Coordination
- Interdisciplinary Care Coordination
- Attention to detail
- Complex Case Coordination
- Health Information Systems
- Strong clinical reasoning and ability to synthesize complex medical information
- Experienced translating complex clinical concepts into clear written and verbal communication
- Clinical documentation
- Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines
- Comfortable learning and applying new policies, systems, workflows, and guidelines
- Clinical reasoning
- Organizational skills
- Clinical communication
- Detail-oriented documentation
- Policy implementation
- Independent collaboration
- Strong written communication and educational content development skills
- Process improvement implementation
Certification
Certified Pediatric Nurse (CPN) — Pediatric Nursing Certification Board, Basic Life Support (BLS) — American Heart Association, Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) — American Heart Association
Personal Information
Title: CLINICAL OPERATIONS | CLINICAL DOCUMENTATION | QUALITY & PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Timeline
Part-Time Lecturer | Adult Medical-Surgical & Pediatric Clinical Education
QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE
01.2026 - Current
Part-Time Lecturer | Pediatric Clinical Education
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
05.2025 - Current
Staffing Committee
LCH
01.2025 - Current
Unit-Based Committee Lead — Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital
Atrium Health Levine Children's Hospital
01.2024 - Current
IBD Nurse Navigator | Clinical Operations & Care Coordination
ATRIUM HEALTH — LEVINE CHILDREN'S SPECIALTY CENTER
08.2023 - 11.2024
Sepsis Committee Representative
LCH
12.2021 - Current
Registered Nurse | Clinical Quality, Education & Operations Focus
ATRIUM HEALTH — LEVINE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
07.2021 - Current
Registered Nurse | Adult Acute Care
NOVANT HEALTH — MATTHEWS MEDICAL CENTER
07.2020 - 07.2021
Magnet Committee
Patient Experience Committee
Master of Science - Nursing — Nursing Education
University of North Carolina Wilmington
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Queens University of Charlotte
Bachelor of Arts - Psychology
The College of Charleston