Cher DeMore

RN in outpatient office setting with responsibilities in phone triage, direct patient care for outpatients in an OB/Gyn setting, physician liaison with responsibilities to send prescriptions, arrange treatments for patients utilizing outside agencies or homecare, submitting prior authorizations for surgeries, medications, or treatments.

Communicating with other disciplines to meet the health care needs of patients and their families, collaborating with other disciplines to coordinate on-going or additional care needs of patients.

Schedule surgeries, provide patient teaching, pre-op procedures, and arrangement of post-operative care.

Provided coverage to other cost-centers to assist in coverage of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Fetal Care Clinic in the covering role of Perinatal Navigator. Responsibilities included rounding with physicians, attending Fetal Boards, and working with The Center for Diabetes in Pregnancy to provide diabetic management to obstetrical patients.

Responsibilities included making out assignments, delegating responsibilities to nursing and supportive staff, direct patient care of both low and high risk intrapartum and postpartum patients, triaging patients, scrubbing and circulating OR cases, neonatal resuscitation and stabilization, NALS certified, NALS instructor.

Encouraged and supported staff education and training, attended required meetings, encouraged and supported quality improvement and implementation of new procedures and/or protocols.

Cognizant of implementing and encouraging cost effective measured, maintaining quality patient care.

• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Collaborated with other healthcare professionals to provide quality patient care.
• Quickly responded to situations impacting safety and security to unit, actualizing crisis prevention interventions to control and de-escalate situations; Code Adam, Code Violet.
• Delivered high level of quality care to diverse populations while overseeing patient admission and triaging based on acuity and appropriate department admission.

Provided intra-operative nursing care to patients in an ambulatory surgical setting. Specialized in gynecological surgeries including hysterectomies, laparotomies, laparoscopies, LEEP, D&Cs, D&Es.

Knowledgeable in use of CO2 laser, Yag laser, Bovie cautery, and fire safety procedures in the OR.

Assured patient safety adhering to safety procedures and protocols.

Provided post-surgical care to patients in the PACU

• Monitoring patient's condition, assessing recovery from anesthesia.
• Monitored and interpreted patient symptoms and communicating them to physicians.
• Responded to patient emergencies to provide prompt and correct intervention .
• Assessed effectiveness of clinical nursing interventions and outcomes.
• Evaluated patient progress and favorable condition for discharge from PACU.
• Documented patient progress and care interventions in medical records.
• Handled patient discharge planning, arranging for follow-up care after leaving healthcare facility.

• Assistant Nurse Manager of labor and Delivery of a tertiary care referral facility and shift supervisor to L&D, high risk antepartum, postpartum, normal newborn nursery, as well as transitional and level 2 nurseries. Responsible for covering the Dialysis unit, providing staff support, coverage, and IV line placement. Also on hospital wide code team.
• Responsible for staffing, direct patient care, staff education, implementing and encouraging quality improvement procedures and protocols, preparation for Joint Commission, and assisted in Capital Budget.
• Supervised, directed, and motivated high-quality performance from nursing staff.
• Streamlined steps in rapid response situations by prioritizing and delegating tasks.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures, and safety protocols.
• Promoted professional development opportunities to encourage nurses to pursue continuous training.
• Communicated with members of medical staff and department heads during weekly update meetings.
• Verified facility remained up-to-date and compliant with laws and regulations.
• Led staff meetings to keep team informed of departmental changes and provide opportunities for nurses to share ideas and concerns.

Delivered intrapartum nursing care to both low and high risk patients, collaborating with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions. Provided care to newborns in a transitional nursery needing continuous assessment, calculating medication dosages, managing IV drips and monitoring responses. Scrubbed and circulated intrapartum OR cases, including emergent cases. Recovered post-op patients, communicated abnormal conditions and responded rapidly to critical changes in patients condition.