Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Achievement Highlights
Value Offered
Certification
Timeline
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Lori Werkema

Lori Werkema

Waterdown,Canada

Summary

Organized Healthcare Supervisor builds positive rapport, inspire trust and guide teams toward achievement of organizational goals. Strong facilitator adept at working cross-departmentally with co-management and top-level leadership. Excellent trainer and mentor.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Team Leader, Cardiac Diagnostic Services

Trillium Health Partners
01.2015 - Current
  • Company Overview: Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga
  • Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga
  • FT position
  • Established open and professional relationships with team members to achieve quick resolutions for various issues.
  • Assisted in recruitment to build team of top performers.

Echocardiographer (FT)

Trillium Health Partners
01.2002 - 01.2017
  • Company Overview: Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga ON
  • Casual part time position responsible for adult 2D echocardiograms, TEE’s, bubble studies, contrast
  • Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga ON

Echosonographer

Credit Valley Cardiology Diagnostic Services
11.2002 - 01.2013
  • Company Overview: Dr
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  • Druck, Dr
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  • Jovanovic, Dr
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  • Strauss
  • Full time position responsible for 2D echocardiograms in a high patient volume cardiology practice with a wide range of pathology
  • Responsible for report distribution, billing and scheduling
  • Responsible for training students from Mohawk College Cardiac Sonography Program
  • Dr
  • M
  • Druck, Dr
  • J
  • Jovanovic, Dr
  • H.D
  • Strauss

Cardiac Technologist

Toronto Western Hospital
01.2000 - 01.2001
  • Full time technologist responsible for nuclear stress testing (exercise, adenosine, dobutamine, persantine)
  • Holter and ECG tests
  • Daily intravenous setup

Education

Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography - Adult And Pediatric Cardiac Ultrasound

Mohawk-McMaster Institute For Applied Health Sciences
Hamilton, ON
01.2002

Cardiology Technologist - ECG, Holter, Stress Testing, Pacemaker

Mohawk McMaster Applied Health
Hamilton, ON
01.2000

Recreation Leadership - Focus on therapeutic recreation

Mohawk College
Hamilton, ON
01.1996

Kinesiology - Psychology minor

Redeemer College University
Ancaster, ON
01.1994

Skills

  • Mentoring
  • Complaint resolution
  • Coaching
  • Onboarding and orientation
  • Daily workflow improvement
  • Shift scheduling
  • Problem-solving
  • Workflow management
  • Risk management
  • Technical support
  • Giving constructive feedback
  • Quality improvement
  • Change management
  • Team supervision

Accomplishments

    Technical Director leading teams through successfull accreditations through Accreditation Canada

Achievement Highlights

  • Clinical Supervisor, worked with team towards successful Echo accreditation: 2019, Created and implemented THP Echo Scanning Protocol with Echo Medical Director/Cardiologist, Implementation of new Reporting System for staff/physicians-in process, Revision of existing Echo policies/Medical Directives, Implemented Contrast Learning Module, training checklist for new staff, Pediatric Echo: assisted with implementation of 'grow our own' paediatric training in conjunction with paediatric program
  • Echosonographer, Adult scans-Inpatient/Outpatient, 2015: Trained 2 X weeks at Hospital for Sick Kids in Paediatric Echo. Performed studies all ages: sedated/non sedated, TEE’s, Exercise and Dobutamine Stress Echo, Contrast Studies

Value Offered

  • Over 20 years of experience as Echosonographer, including adult/paediatrics, TEE’s, Stress Echo’s, Contrast studies.
  • Technical Director of Echo labs, THP
  • Team Leader for Cardiac Diagnostics, THP

Certification

  • Registered Congenital Cardiac Sonographer (RCCS).
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification - American Heart Association.
  • Registered Cardiac Sonographer (RCS).
  • Lean Manufacturing Credential – SME.
  • Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer (RDMS) - American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS).

Timeline

Team Leader, Cardiac Diagnostic Services

Trillium Health Partners
01.2015 - Current

Echosonographer

Credit Valley Cardiology Diagnostic Services
11.2002 - 01.2013

Echocardiographer (FT)

Trillium Health Partners
01.2002 - 01.2017

Cardiac Technologist

Toronto Western Hospital
01.2000 - 01.2001

Recreation Leadership - Focus on therapeutic recreation

Mohawk College

Kinesiology - Psychology minor

Redeemer College University

Diagnostic Cardiac Sonography - Adult And Pediatric Cardiac Ultrasound

Mohawk-McMaster Institute For Applied Health Sciences

Cardiology Technologist - ECG, Holter, Stress Testing, Pacemaker

Mohawk McMaster Applied Health
Lori Werkema