Amber Kelley

• Manager over OB, L&D, WCP, delivery team, NICU, and BFC
• Supervised, directed, and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff.
• Lead staff meetings to keep team informed of departmental changes and provide opportunities for nurses to share ideas and concerns.
• Investigate and independently resolve complaints from staff, physicians, and patients by leveraging clinical judgment and unit management expertise
• Manage staff scheduling and time off to adequately staff nursing floors and allow nurses earned time off
• Promote professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training.
• Assisted in creating and initiating the NEST program for the NAS babies, utilizing the NASCEND program
• Organize, prioritize, and delegate nursing work flow throughout all units of WHS
• Act as a responsible and visible leader within all units to the staff
• Assist in the orientation process of new staff members
• Work early, late, and night shifts as well as weekends and not afraid of taking on extra responsibilities such as assisting staff with direct patient care
• Assisted in creating and initiating the hypoglycemia protocol for the NICU
• Confident leader within all areas (able to help out in each unit with direct patient care). Hold for epidurals, assist nurses and physicians with coding mothers and infants, start IV's, assist with administration of magnesium in antepartum, laboring, and postpartum patients, place patients on monitor, and able to read strips.
• Assisted in creating and initiating the postpartum hemorrhage massive transfusion policy and order set
• Assisted in initiating Eat, Sleep, Console for our NAS babies
• Assisted in initiating the blue band for our hypertensive mothers

Delivery nurse, NICU nurse, OB nurse, and Medsurg nurse

• Worked side by side with the midwives
• Assisted laboring patients to achieve the natural deliveries the way they wished to deliver (started IV's, intermittent monitoring, water births, birthing coach)
• Stabilized newborns from birth to 6 hours of age

Charge nurse over L&D, Mother Baby, Women's Health, Nursery, Delivery Team, and NICU