April Croce
Methodist Hospital Stone Oak
Spring Branch,TX
1
Certification
14
years of professional experience
Dedicated Women's Health Registered Nurse with extensive experience leading high-volume Labor and Delivery units. Proven expertise in quality improvement, staff mentoring, and patient advocacy, backed by a Master's in Nursing Education. Committed to driving clinical excellence through leadership, teaching and collaboration. I strongly believe in the mission of learning, healing, and discovery to provide the best possible care for our patients! I absolutely love what I do in women's health and am so excited to expand my career into the field of nursing education!
Work History
Clinical Nurse Coordinator
5 Years- . Started on this L&D unit as a staff RN for first 2 years and promoted to CNC on same unit where I still currently hold this position.
- Outlined key responsibilities for CNC role in labor and delivery unit.
- . served as permanent charge nurse for labor and delivery unit with 12 LDR beds, 4 triage beds, 3 ORs, and 5 PACU beds.
- . 4 extra hours a week spent on QI projects, QBL and oxytocin use audits, leadership meetings, committee meetings, Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) meetings and patient rounding.
Registered Nurse
4 Years 8 Months- . Completed 2-year RN residency on med-surg unit, then transferred to labor and delivery within same hospital system to enhance maternal care.
- . Staff RN on a high risk L&D unit with over 300 deliveries a month and seeing anywhere from 300 to 500 patients through triage.
- . Responsibilities include assessments of mother and baby, monitoring fetal heart strips, circulating C-sections, triaging pregnant women from 20 weeks of gestation and up.
- . Coordinated multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care delivery. to deliver excellent clinical care outcomes.
- . Oversaw acute patient care needs in a fast-paced medical environment. needs whilst ensuring high safety standards.
- . Trained junior nursing staff, enhancing clinical practice standards and supporting professional development.
Patient Care Associate
10 MonthsCertified Nurse Aide
3 YearsEducation
Masters - Nursing Education
- Expected to graduate December 2026
- Scheduled to complete nursing education practicum with Nurse Educator of level 3 NICU at Methodist Hospital Stone Oak- 135 hours total
- 4.0 GPA
Bachelors - Science of Nursing
- . Total of 1200 clinical hours.
- . 108 clinical hours in a Maternal Newborn Internship.
- . 120 hours of leadership and management clinical in maternal newborn during which a quality improvement project on Post-Partum Hemorrhage education for nurses was developed.
- 3.5 GPA
Skills
New Graduate RN Precepting
Performance Counseling
Professional collaboration
Conflict Resolution
Patient Advocacy
Mentoring
Staff Scheduling
Organizational skills
Quality improvement
Clinical assessment
Nursing leadership
Certification
- Registered Nurse (2017–Current) License # 915323
- C-EFM (2025-2028)
- RNC-OB (2023- 2029)
- ACLS (2019-2027)
- NRP (2019-2027)
- BLS (2011-2027)
- STABLE certified in 2021
Teaching experience
- Preceptor certification 2020
6 years of preceptor experience (new grads, nursing students, and experienced new hires)
Leadership
- Clinical Nurse Coordinator (CNC) Permanent charge nurse + 4 hrs of leadership activities weekly
- NLC: Nursing Leadership Certificate - Leadership Institute
- New Graduate RN Preceptor Certificate
- CNC council committee chair
- Unit based council committee chair
Professional Development
- Leadership Institute 24 hours of in person leadership training 2025
- Annual perinatal competency skill labs 2019–2026
- 2023 AWHONN Conference attendee
- 2020 AWHONN Conference attendee
Scholarship
- Scholarly Paper 2026- Readability Level of Patient Education for Mothers at Risk for Pre-Eclampsia
- Scholarly Paper 2026- Roles in an Inter-Professional Team for Implementing Immediate Skin to Skin After Delivery
- Scholarly Paper 2025- The Role of an Advanced Practice Nurse in Transitioning to Quantitative Blood Loss for Modern Births.
- Scholarly Paper 2025- The Need for Improved Sexual Health Education in Adolescents
Timeline
Clinical Nurse Coordinator
Methodist Hospital Stone Oak
10.2021 - CurrentRead More
Registered Nurse
UCHealth Memorial Hospital
02.2017 - 10.2021Read More
Patient Care Associate
University Hospital: L&D
03.2016 - 01.2017Read More
Certified Nurse Aide
Memory care facilities Resource
02.2013 - 02.2016Read More
Galen College of Nursing
Masters from Nursing Education
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University of The Incarnate Word
Bachelors from Science of Nursing
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