Aria Flores

Worked as a charge nurse on the labor and delivery floor

• Ensured safe patient assignments were given throughout the shift
• Coordinated with doctors and nursing staff to ensure safe patient care within the entire unit
• Can count narcotics to look for discrepancies
• Ensured the day shift staff had adequate staffing
• Can perform cervical exams, coach through labor and pushing with a patient independently, and provide patient education and advocacy for specific birth plans

Can manage the care of:

• Two laboring patients on pitocin and/or antepartum patients: Typical ratio 1:2
• Patients who are choosing to go natural through non-medical techniques
• Preterm/PPROM patients: i.e Magnesium and steroid therapy for neuroprotection and lung development
• Pre-eclamptic labor patients on a magnesium infusion and pitocin
• GDM Insulin drip labors on pitocin and/or magnesium drips
• Newborn care from birth to postpartum
• IUFD patients: creating a calm environment for those experiencing fetal loss, creating molds and taking pictures for memorial pieces for patients to take home
• Can perform the role as a circulator during scheduled, unscheduled, urgent, and stat c-sections

Triage and NAN capable: Able to balance a full triage patient load and able to catch low to high-risk newborns after birth and resuscitate as needed

• Able to perform NSTs
• Able to assist new mothers with breastfeeding, postpartum self-care, and newborn infant care
• Difficult IV placement and lab draws
• Able to care for and facilitate plan of care for precipitous deliveries
• EKG placement and reading

• Collaborated with managers, employees, residents, and physicians in different departments to ensure patient safety and holistic care
• Communicated with patients daily about their plan of care to provide a chance for collaboration and advocation
• IV insertion, trach care, feeding tubes, NGT care, heparin drips, catheter insertion, wound care, PCA pumps, oxygen administration
• Headed rapid responses and Code Blues
• Team Lead
• Managed a nurse to patient ratio of 1:6