Amanda Johnson

• Full time employee; I initiated referrals to ensure appropriate coordination of care.
• Seek advice of the Medical Director when appropriate according to policy.
• Perform comprehensive provider and member appeals, denial interpretation for letters, retrospective claim review, special review requests, and UM pre-certifications for hospital stays and outpatient procedures.
• I utilized medical appropriateness criteria, clinical judgement, and contractual eligibility.

Stabilize and monitor patients pre and post anesthesia.

Administer pain medications.

Maintain post-surgical dressings, ports, and intravenous lines.

Provide post surgical procedure teaching.

Mentor to nursing students.

Committee leader of the People Pillar of Children's Surgical Services.

• Stabilize and monitor critical care children at a level one trauma center.
• Administer code drugs, antibiotics, IV drips, and other medications.
• Initiate and monitor patients requiring conscious sedation.
• Rotate between triage nursing, emergency department bed nursing, and trauma room nursing.
• Complete staff daily assignments and duties per shift.
• Manage patient flow throughout the Children's Emergency Department, mediate patient and family complaints, and facilitate communication between the nursing staff, physicians, and other areas of the hospital.
• Committee leader of the Education Pillar of the Children's Emergency Department.

• Provided the highest quality of care of care for children birth through eighteen years of age at a level one trauma hospital.
• Care for patients with a variety of medical complaints with varying degrees of severity.
• Played a key role on the interdisciplinary team of medical doctors, registered nurses, social workers, case managers, respiratory therapists, radiology technicians, trauma team, and clinical assistants.
• Ensured the doctors' orders were effectively carried out including testing, medical procedures, consultations, and stat orders.