Clinical Educator II/IRB Coordinator
Rutland Regional Medical Center
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Dr. Mayes is a perioperative nurse employed as the OR and Sterile Processing Clinical Educator and the facility Institutional Review Board Coordinator for a community hospital in Vermont. She earned her BSN in 1989 from the University of Cincinnati College of Nursing, MS in Nursing with a focus on Education in 1998 from Idaho State Univesity, and a Ph.D. in Nursing from The Catholic University of America in 2019. Dr. Mayes' 30+ years of perioperative experience includes working as a circulator, scrub, manager, clinical educator, and assisting in sterile processing, the ambulatory care unit, and post-anesthesia care unit. As a clinical educator, she has initiated multiple OR-focused trainings including developing an OR nurse training program that incorporates a 4-week intensive held in a simulation lab, presentations by providers, and virtual reality activities. She has also provided organization-wide training for her facility including teaching dysrhythmia classes and preceptor courses. Most recently, she presented her research findings as a poster at the 2020 AORN Virtual Expo and at an eChapter monthly educational event. Dr. Mayes has successfully facilitated peer research and evidence-based practice projects (e.g., OR late starts, implementation of intraoperative count best practices, evaluation of liposomal bupivacaine for pain management) and disseminated the results as poster presentations, live presentations, and as a peer-reviewed journal article.