Eleni M. Paras
Gaithersburg
Summary
Transitional care professional with proven track record in patient management and care coordination. Adept at fostering collaborative team environments and ensuring seamless transitions for patients. Known for reliability and adaptability, excelling in dynamic healthcare settings.
Professional with proven ability to manage and coordinate transitional care services effectively. Strong communication and problem-solving skills, focusing on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient outcomes. Adaptable and reliable, ensuring seamless transitions and high-quality care. Proficient in patient assessments, care planning, and multidisciplinary team coordination, demonstrating dedication to enhancing patient experiences and health results.
Overview
36
36
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
TRANSITIONAL CARE MANAGER
AbsoluteCARE Patient Centered Medical Care
Greenbelt, MD
11.2019 - 05.2025
- Facilitate Relationship Building
- Connect with patients for engagement and trust. Inpatient facilities staff for collaboration and partnership.
- Identify risk and coordinate care
- Preventing complications, avoid readmissions, avoid unnecessary emergency room visits.
- Assess and manage patient care.
- Ensure the most appropriate level of care, identity barriers to care, monitor health care for under and over utilizations.
- NURSE CARE MANAGER
- Initial intake of new patients and enrollment into care management program.
- Conducting extensive medical and psychosocial needs assessments.
- Continuous engagement with patients to tract individualized health and life goals.
- Extensive use of EMR, CRISP HIE and payor portals for utilization management. ER/Hospital discharge follow-up and managing all aspects of transitional care.
Fox Chase Healthcare
Silver Spring, MD
12.2025 - 01.2025
- Connect with residents to form engagement and trusting relationships with them.
- Inpatient facility staff for collaboration and partnership.
- Identify risks and coordinate and manage patient care and provide individualized plan of care using the integrated care team approach, Attending physicians, CRNP's RN's LPN's, GNA's
- Registered dieticians, pharmacists, rehabilitation PT, OT and Speech Therapists, based on the comprehensive assessment from each respective discipline.
ADMISSION NURSE
Montgomery Hospice
Rockville, MD
04.2018 - 05.2019
- Accurately assess patient and family needs.
- Develop an effective working relationship with the representative from other agencies who provide services for the assigned patients.
- Identifies and recommends medical equipment and supplies that will assist in maintain patient's comfort and caregiver's ability to provide care.
- Identifies the need for additional services, including nutritional assessment, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy and initiates appropriate referrals
- Assess the need for and educates the caregivers on safety and emergency preparedness, including safe use of medical equipment.
- Conveys physician's request to appropriate staff on appropriate staff.
CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER
Capital City Nurses Healthcare Services
Chevy Chase, Maryland
08.2014 - 01.2018
- Manage clinical operations for the assigned region.
- Work collaboratively with Care Managers and Coordinators to provide optimum patient care.
- Work collaboratively with leadership team to develop policies and procedures that support quality service.
- Provide case management services.
- Perform nursing assessments and develop nursing care plans as needed.
- Supervise and evaluate nursing personnel assigned to CCHS client's in homes, hospitals, skilled nursing and assisted living facilities
- Train caregiver personnel in procedures for infection control, and work plan safety.
- Provide in-service education on infection control, seizure precautions, Alzheimer's disease processes, topical and medication administration and other various topics as the needs arise.
- Coordinate and review physician orders, nursing notes, medication administration records for clients as needed
CLINICAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER NURSE
Med Assurant / Inovalon
Columbia, MD
12.2010 - 05.2014
- Complete telephonic health risk assessments or screening that facilitate patient stratification and the identification of appropriate evidenced based interventions designed to improve patient and health outcomes.
- Communicate professionally with patient's providers and caregivers to obtain or provide information including completing telephonic health counseling and education calls.
- Provide disease specific education in accordance with corporate policies, procedures and program content.
- Advance knowledge base and communication skills through training, mentoring and observation.
PREOP NURSE
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Rockville, MD
07.2002 - 12.2010
- Provided nursing care to the surgical patients, ie organized and completed all the necessary paperwork, tests, and procedures, started the IV's for the anesthesiologists, taught the patients and families about the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative care. I worked in collaboration with other health care professionals, surgeons, anesthesiologists, OR nurses, PACU nurses and techs.
CENTRAL PRN REGISTERED NURSE
Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA
04.1991 - 08.1998
- IMCU, W&C, Infectious Disease, Neurology, Orthopedics , Medical Surgical ,Oncology, Private Services, Renal , GYN Surgery , Surgery and Transplant.
- Administered and monitored chemotherapy; daily maintenance of central line catheters Groshong, Mediports, and Triple Lumens) managed Epidural catheters, chest tubes, and narcotic drips; assisted physicians with biopsies, paracentesis, bronchoscopies and insertion of central lines.
PRN /REGISTERED NURSE
Fairfax Hospital
05.1997 - 09.1997
- Training in Radiation/Oncology to gain experience and acquire new skills.
- Assisted physician with procedure ( Wang-Fletcher Suit, injecting dyes CT Scanning) on treatment checks and follow up visits; taught patients about common side effects of radiation treatment with respect to their specific needs; obtained lab and test results for physicians; directed patient's to dietitian or social worker, answered patients questions about medications for concerns about treatment during radiation therapy.
OFFICE REGISTERED NURSE
Dr. John P. Nasou MD
Silver Spring, MD
07.1990 - 03.1991
- Administered patient care; performed patient histories and physicals; performed EKG's and Pulmonary Function Tests; administered eye examinations, drew blood for laboratory tests, performed urinalysis, sedimentation rates, and hemoccult stool tests.
ONCOLOGY/MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSE
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
09.1989 - 08.1990
- Administered direct nursing care to to the patients in the Oncology/ Medical Surgical Unit, including general maintenance pf central lines, and administration of chemotherapy under guidance of preceptor.
NURSING MONITOR TECH
Montgomery General Hospital
Olney, MD
10.1989 - 05.1989
- Nursing Monitor Tech in the Telemetry, step-down unit, ICU, CCU Units
- Interpreted EKG's, transcribed physician orders from chart and delivered patient care
Education
Associates of Arts - Nursing
Montgomery College
Takoma Park, MD01-1988
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice, Minor in Psychology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD04-1982
Skills
- Care coordination
- Medication reconciliation
- Quality improvement
- Discharge planning
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Clinical decision making
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Time management
- Problem-solving abilities
- Multitasking Abilities
- Excellent communication
- Effective communication
- Adaptability and flexibility
- CPR/AED
- Professionalism
Accomplishments
- Earned a reputation for excellence in service delivery, “You have been identified by your peers as one of the best practitioners in our department."
- Asked to join with my peers forming a PRE and POST surgical Services Department Council (PPSSDC).
- Nominated for the STAR AWARD by the PACU stafAthletic Achievements
- 4 year swimming scholarship
- Greece National Champion Backstroke Age 18
- Balkan Games, Sofia Bulgaria Age 18.
Certification
Registered Nurse Maryland Board of Nursing License # R102814 Issued on 04/03/1989 (Active) Expiration Date: 11/28/2026
Timeline
Fox Chase Healthcare
12.2025 - 01.2025
TRANSITIONAL CARE MANAGER
AbsoluteCARE Patient Centered Medical Care
11.2019 - 05.2025
ADMISSION NURSE
Montgomery Hospice
04.2018 - 05.2019
CLINICAL NURSE MANAGER
Capital City Nurses Healthcare Services
08.2014 - 01.2018
CLINICAL COMMUNICATIONS CENTER NURSE
Med Assurant / Inovalon
12.2010 - 05.2014
PREOP NURSE
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
07.2002 - 12.2010
PRN /REGISTERED NURSE
Fairfax Hospital
05.1997 - 09.1997
CENTRAL PRN REGISTERED NURSE
Fairfax Hospital
04.1991 - 08.1998
OFFICE REGISTERED NURSE
Dr. John P. Nasou MD
07.1990 - 03.1991
NURSING MONITOR TECH
Montgomery General Hospital
10.1989 - 05.1989
ONCOLOGY/MEDICAL SURGICAL NURSE
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
09.1989 - 08.1990
Bachelor of Arts - Criminal Justice, Minor in Psychology
University of Maryland
Associates of Arts - Nursing
Montgomery College
Awarded a nursing scholarship by Suburban Hospital.
I was awarded a nursing scholarship from Suburban Hospital .