939 Jackson Avenue Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Home: (908)217-3410 Email: LORETTA TURON, RN, MSN, MBA, CNA EDUCATION

MASTERS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management, Newark, NJ MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN NURSING ADMINISTRATION Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN NURSING New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ DIPLOMA IN NURSING Mountainside Hospital School of Nursing, Montclair, NJ EXPERIENCE 2004 - July 2010 ST. JOSEPH'S REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, Patterson, NJ Director of Med-Surgery St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center is a 651-bed academic tertiary medical cent er and state designated Trauma Center. Reported directly to the CNO with respons ibility for 15 direct reports including seven Nurse Managers, four APN, a Qualit y Coordinator, an Administrative Secretary and a Payroll Coordinator. Responsibl e for seven units and 220 beds. Managed Nursing Department operational budget. Selected Accomplishments: * Developed their outpatient oncology department. * Researched with Senior Management and Chairperson of Medicine to develop a bu siness plan to create an 18 bed Stroke/Telemetry unit the first in Passaic Count y. * Acquired from Joint Commission Primary Stroke Certification in May 2007 and R ecertification in May 2009. * Collaborated with Teaneck Visiting Nurses to establish a four (4) bed Hospice unit on the Inpatient Oncology unit. Developed protocols for the ER staff on ho w to manage Hospice patients in the ER to prevent admission. * Appointed as Director with Chairperson of Cardiology on Core Measures Committ ee and increased Influenza and Pneumococcal vaccine rates from 76% to 90%. * Analyzed fall rates that were beyond ANA benchmark and drew up a capital budg et to change to Hill Rom beds that had call lights installed in the side rails v ersus behind the patient on the wall. Facilitated this process over three years/ one division per year-Med-Surg, Maternal Child and Critical Care. * Chaired Lift Committee comprised of nurse managers and lift consultants to ad vise what lift products best fit each clinical unit. * Improved productivity by working with nursing supervisors to zero variance in January, 2010. * Worked with CNO and Director of Education to launch relationship-based care m odel on Med-Surg and Maternal Child units along with Jean Watson's Caring Theory , working with cross-functional interdisciplinary teams and families. Forecasted that Model would need more RN's and was approved by Senior Management to go for ward. Implementation resulted in a 30% increase in Press Ganey scores. * Obtained Joint Commission Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) certification in Feb ruary. In collaboration with interdisciplinary team; developed teach-back patien t education including a refrigerator magnet with CHF patient education written i n Spanish and English to take home as reinforcement.

* Facilitated Transforming Care at Bedside model to improve staff participation in resolving bedside quality issues. * Won grant from Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) which allowed staff to develop and i mplement bedside report; decreased overtime by 20 percent in three months. 2002 -2004 BAYONNE MEDICAL CENTER, Bayonne, NJ Director, Oncology Services and Patient Services Budget Bayonne Medical Center is a 278-bed acute care, medical surgical facility. Respo nsible for all inpatient and outpatient oncology services as well as all patient care services budgets. Selected Accomplishments: * Implemented Partners in Practice Model for staff and nurse managers in Teleme try, Oncology and two Med-Surg units, creating environment with strong emphasis on teamwork. * Coordinated with the medical director of Radiation Therapy and breast surgeon to start the Mammosite procedure for women with breast cancer after a lumpectom y. * Appointed Performance Improvement team leader of the Tumor Node Metastasis (T NM) staging process committee. * Led interdisciplinary team meetings in all inpatient units, decreasing length of stay, improving documentation system for all nurses, enhancing collaboration between all disciplines and increasing patient satisfaction. * Initiated variance report for all nurse managers to use in a monthly report t hat analyzed vacancies and decreased the use of contract personnel. * Using Jean Watson's Caring Model as a guideline, implemented a program which allowed patients receiving chemotherapy in the outpatient setting to put togethe r jigsaw puzzles which were then framed and displayed as artwork in the departme nt. 1989 - 2002 RAHWAY HOSPITAL, Rahway, NJ Nurse Manager (1993 - 2002) Rahway Hospital is a 267-bed acute care, medical surgical facility. Managed Tele metry, Ventilator Step-Down Unit, Oncology inpatient/outpatient, Orthopedics, an d Subacute. Selected Accomplishments: * Administered the cancer care business plan for the first cancer outpatient de partment. Operational revenue $51,000 first year. Initiated a cable television c ommercial to market new program. * Served as Co-Chair for newly created Research Committee, collaborated with th e University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey to serve as their Instituti onal Review Board (IRB). * Led restraint and pain Joint Commission Accreditation Organizational Teams (i ncluding MD's, RN's pharmacist, and physical therapist) while delivering peer-re view policies/procedures, scientific posters, abstracts, house-wide quality data collection. * Launched pain rounds that reduced patient's pain from a scale of 10 to 2 or 1 . * Reduced costs 50 percent for diabetic patients by creating a hypoglycemia pro tocol. * Effectively managed $6 million operating budget and reduced supply cost 18 pe rcent. * Researched and developed business plan for a 16 bed Sub Acute unit due to Rah way Hospital having had a long term license. * Increased by 50 percent the number of oncology RN's achieving Oncology Nursin g Certification (ONS), a professional certification. * Increased patient satisfaction rates from 77 percent to 92 percent. Nursing Supervisor (1989 - 1993)

1974 - 1988 NORTH BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER, Newark, NJ Staff Nurse: Pediatrics, ICU, Critical Care Educator Selected Accomplishments: * Served as the first Staff Nurse on the IRB. CERTIFICATIONS * Certification in Nursing Administration, American Nurses Association. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS * Organization of Nurse Executives of New Jersey, ONE/NJ PUBLICATIONS Turon , L. Restraint Reduction for Med-Surg Units, Nursing Spectrum, 5/88 Turon, L. Restraint Flowchart Quality Connection , 11/89 PRESENTATIONS Restraint Reduction, Riverview Medical Center 6/88 Charting by Exception, ONE Conference 1/90 Roberta Collins, RN