- Patient flow and throughput
- Staff development and coaching
- EMR documentation and compliance
- Quality improvement
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Acute and Ambulatory Care Coordination
- Clinical decision making
Lauren Kamenczak
Burlington,KY
Summary
Self-driven Registered Nurse with 9+ years of experience in acute care, ambulatory cardiology, and rehabilitation settings. Skilled in interdisciplinary collaboration, staffing coordination, and improving patient outcomes in fast-paced clinical environments. Committed to delivering high-quality patient-centered care while supporting team collaboration and maintaining patient dignity.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Unit Manager
Gateway Rehabilitation Hospital
Florence, KY
06.2025 - Current
- Oversee daily unit operations, coordinating workflows across interdisciplinary teams to ensure efficient and high quality patient care
- Conduct monthly chart audits to monitor compliance with regulatory standards and increased medication scan compliance by 40%
- Deliver real time coaching to staff, improving performance accountability and compliance outcomes
- Manage daily staffing assignments for a 40 bed hospital, ensuring optimal coverage in alignment with patient acuity
- Provide direct patient care as needed and led rapid response, code, and emergency interventions
- Establish and drive unit based quality improvement goals to enhance patient outcomes and operational performance
Clinical Nursing Supervisor
Advocate Heart Institute
Hazel Crest, IL
04.2023 - 06.2025
- Develop and adjust daily schedules for clinical teams, ensuring adequate coverage and responsiveness in real-time changes
- Act as a liaison between 25 physicians, 3 clinical teams, and external offices to coordinate urgent care and ensure continuity
- Organize and implement educational opportunities to advance clinical staff knowledge and skill sets
- Monitor EMR documentation for accuracy and compliance, order critical supplies, and maintain readiness across offices
- Respond to urgent patient needs and changes in condition, providing direct clinical support when needed
- Initiated a standardized physician discharge sheet to improve visit closure and patient understanding of follow-up care
- Provides real-time office updates and business needs to 3 office locations and director of operations
Registered Nurse
Advocate Heart Institute
Hazel Crest, IL
08.2022 - 04.2023
- Accommodates to a changing work schedule to fill the clinic’s needs
- Assists with onboarding/training new associates in clinic and inpatient setting while maintaining active tasks
- Organizes and individually curates physicians’ consult lists in the hospital
- Collaborates with administration to fill urgent medication refills, extend orders, or get orders signed for outpatient testing
- Collaborates with the interventional cardiologists to ensure required medications and therapies are ordered after PCI/PTCA procedures
- Assists with morning huddle to inform staff of daily rooming/in-basket assignments
- Created new huddle sheet to ensure staff assignments are being carried out
- Developed an updated workflow that allows staff to see active changes to weekly assignments
- Standardized the triage process as well as properly escalates urgent triage calls to appropriate physicians
- Actively engages in communication with patients regarding medications, testing, and plan of care
Medical Surgical Float Registered Nurse
Advocate Christ Medical Center
Oak Lawn, IL
09.2017 - 07.2022
- Adapt to a changing work environment; trained to float to various units including trauma, oncology, neurology, orthopedics, detox, observation, women’s health, surgical, medical-telemetry, and COVID-19
- Mentor new graduate nurses and take on charge nurse duties on surge units to accommodate house census
- Delivered direct patient care through blood and medication administration, while monitoring and documenting patient responses to interventions.
- Collaborate with members of multidisciplinary teams to assess patient and provide individualized patient centered care
- Monitored vital signs and assessed patient conditions, promptly reporting changes to the healthcare team.
- Administered medications and treatments according to established protocols, ensuring patient safety and compliance.
- Established expertise as superuser for Epic, providing training sessions for team members on new EMR system.
Assistant Secretary
Lewis University Center for Health and Counseling
Romeoville, IL
09.2013 - 05.2017
- Identified need for new charting system that was more compliant with HIPAA and reserved for the center that resulted in improved efficiency
- Educated patients about vaccinations and other services available
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Lewis University
Romeoville, IL05.2017
Skills
- EMR documentation (Epic, WellSky)
- Workday
- HealthStream
- Staffing and scheduling
- Chart audits
- Medication administration
- NIH Stroke Scale Certified
- BLS-American Heart Association
Interests
Timeline
Unit Manager
Gateway Rehabilitation Hospital
06.2025 - Current
Clinical Nursing Supervisor
Advocate Heart Institute
04.2023 - 06.2025
Registered Nurse
Advocate Heart Institute
08.2022 - 04.2023
Medical Surgical Float Registered Nurse
Advocate Christ Medical Center
09.2017 - 07.2022
Assistant Secretary
Lewis University Center for Health and Counseling
09.2013 - 05.2017
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Lewis University