At the age of 17, Angela began working at Hamilton General Hospital as a Nurse Aide. Since that time, she has been committed to furthering her education and is now an RN with an MSN degree in Nursing Administration. She worked as a staff nurse in multiple departments, but primarily ED, for several years, followed by serving as the ED Supervisor, Trauma Program Manager, Director of Clinical Informatics, and is currently the Assistant Director of Nursing Services. She also serves as Secretary of the Central Texas Regional Advisory Council's Board of Directors. Though the Assistant Director of Nursing is her official title currently, she still assists in all of the previously mentioned areas as well by continuing to directly manage the ED, oversee the Trauma Program, and functions in the Informatics role for all of our current state EHR systems in regard to system design, build, integration, interfacing, and interoperability for all clinical areas within the organization. In addition, she co-manages our Inpatient Med Surg unit as well as our Infusion clinic. In 2023, our healthcare system made a big decision to transition from our EHR vendor to Cerner Community Works.

Angela has played a vital role in the clinical design and functionality of our EHR for the ED, Inpatient unit, and Infusion clinic while mentoring our new Clinical Informatics nurse. In addition, she supports this project by participating in the integration of interfacing medical devices and promoting interoperability, as a member of the Core Leadership Project Management and Revenue Cycle Leadership teams, and Regulatory Compliance. Amid this EHR conversion project and in addition to daily operations, in 2023 Angela also participated in efforts to successfully reduce falls, implement a new Medication Dispensing system as a beta site for hosting in the cloud, transition annual competencies to Lippincott, coordinated student clinicals for multiple cohorts to include preceptors for last semester students, renewed her certifications as a BLS, ALS, and PALS instructor after they expired during the pandemic, and assisted with compensation negotiations to move wages up to competitive rates.

Her nursing and leadership skills are both admirable and amazing, and her dedication to this facility is unsurpassed. She puts in many more hours than are required of her and always gives her all, no matter what her personal life may be throwing at her. As a small rural facility, we are blessed to have her. She wears many hats and deserves to be recognized for her hard work, loyalty, dedication, selflessness, and love of furthering the quality healthcare our rural community deserves.