Tina French, BS, RN, CPHQ

Ms. French is a Registered Nurse with over 35 years of clinical and administrative nursing experience in diversified healthcare settings. Tina holds a healthcare quality certification (CPHQ), originally obtained in 1998, re-sitting for the exam again in 2013 to satisfy her passion for supporting the Quadruple Aim.  She joined our team in 2021 in a Nurse Informatics Data Analyst role. Tina started at Vanderbilt in 2004, working in Women’s Health before moving to the Evidence Based Medicine Team in 2009 focusing on clinical order set content for Women’s Health, Pharmacy, Anesthesia, and Psychiatry service lines.   During this time, she participated in and taught a class for the Evidence Based Nursing Fellowship Program on “Why PICO?”.   Joining the Epic Leap Implementation team in 2015, she became an Epic Inpatient Certified Orders Analyst collaborating with clinical teams on the design, requirements, build, validation, and adoption of subject matter.  Post implementation, her role was with the Clinical Decision Support team, in partnership with Pharmacy Informatics, developing/optimizing order panels and best practice alerts (BPAs) for OB/GYN, MFM, Anesthesia and Addiction Medicine. Most recently, Tina was the lead on aligning with Accreditation and Standards to implement Covid-19 Pandemic standing orders across the Enterprise.