Lenora Lillard Barber, RN, MSN, CNOR

6735 Willow Trace Drive

Chattanooga, TN 37421
(423) 892-8904
E-mail: lenora_barber@comcast.net

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
ERLANGER HEALTH SYSTEM September, 2004
- February, 2009
Surgery Clinical Resource Coordinator:
* Reduced Surgical inventory for one-time savings of $1.54M
* Facilitated trocar conversion resulting in $140,000 annual savings
* Identify and present cost containment ideas to surgeons, senior and department
al management to build consensus
* Chair the Surgery Products Committee facilitating product and process changes
designed to reduce supply expenses while supporting quality patient outcomes and
physician satisfaction. Serve on Support Services Product and System Standardi
zation Committees.
* Interact with vendor representatives, ensuring appropriate activity within the
department
* Interact with Compliance, Privacy and Financial Departments, ensuring adherenc
e to established guidelines
* Process recall items within the Surgery department
* Investigate and process departmental occurrence reports.
* Served as Project Manager for the Executive Surgical Excellence Initiative inc
luding serving as liaison between Erlanger Health System and the University of T
ennessee at Chattanooga Engineering Department
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL September
1988 - September, 2004
Surgical Information Systems Liaison:
* Administer development and implementation of a new Information Services System
* Maintain surgery block scheduling process
* Sit on O.R. Executive Committee and OR / PACU Committee
* Provide data with documentation to support perioperative initiatives
* Cover Perioperative Management call one week per month
Systems Perioperative Scheduling Manager:
* Expand scope of charge and data entry process
* Redesigned block scheduling process
* Facilitated redesign of system anesthesia program
* Presented perioperative personnel education programs
* Cover Perioperative Management call one week per month
Systems Perioperative Scheduling Director:
* Oversight of departmental Information Services
* Oversight of Surgery Scheduling, Surgery Charge and Data Entry and PreAdmissio
n Testing Departments
* Cover Perioperative Management call one week per month
Systems Perioperative Case Manager:
Perioperative Case Manager:
Staff Nurse, PACU and Surgery:
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Senior Nurse Consultant:

PARKRIDGE HOSPITAL
Surgery Staff Nurse:

TEPPER HOSPITAL AND CLINIC

Operating Room Supervisor:

ERLANGER HOSPITAL Surgery Staff Nurse:

Previous Employment History - Details available upon request

EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX
Phoenix, AZ
2008 - Incomplete - Master of Business Administration / Health Care Management
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA
Chattanooga, TN
1993 - Master of Science in Nursing - Thesis: "The Relationship Between Intrao
perative Use of Convection Warming Therapy and Postoperative Hypothermia." The
data obtained from this study were used to implement change in practice with reg
ard to intraoperative management of patient care.
1990 - Bachelor of Science in Nursing

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA
Member, Sigma Theta Tau; 1st graduate of the MSN program
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN), Sigma Theta Tau, Tennessee Nurses
Association (TNA), Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management of
the American Hospital Association (AHRMM), Association of Healthcare Value Anal
ysis Professionals (AHVAP)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MEMPHIS

COLLEGE OF NURSING Spring, 1999
Served as a clinical preceptor for students in the Doctoral Program.
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA
COLLEGE OF NURSING 1997 - 1998
Served as a management/leadership preceptor for students in the Bachelor's and M
aster's Programs.
BAXTER/ALLEGIANCE HEALTHCARE CORPORATION 1997 - 1998
 Served as a consultant in developing a product delivery / cost containment prog
ram.

LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION

Tennessee Board of Nursing License Number - # 27307
Certified Operating Room Nurse (CNOR) - # 941172
American Heart Association - Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS)

PERSONAL DATA
SERVICE ACTIVITIES: Ronald McDonald House, Kidney Foundation, Humane Society, Te
nnessee Baptist Children's Home, Kiwanis Annual Fund Drive, Children's Miracle N
etwork