Dawn Heckler
Las Vegas
Summary
Knowledgeable Labor and Delivery Nurse with over 8 years of experience. Adept at providing individualized care and family education. Committed to making labor and delivery as painless and efficient as possible for mothers, babies and doctors.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Labor and Delivery nurse
Centennial Hills Hospital
04.2022 - Current
- Provide care for patients in antepartum, triage, labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn care including high-risk patients
- Assist physicians during delivery and in the OR for scheduled and emergency C-sections
- Act as preceptor to new nurses
- Provide education to patients and family members on labor, delivery, pain, and newborn care.
Women’s Services, StaRN Instructor
Healthtrust Workforce Solutions
03.2021 - Current
- Implement evidence-based curriculum using AWHONN guidelines
- Teach classes on general nursing competencies and the skills, reasoning, and practices of an obstetric nurse
- Train newly hired Clinical Instructors, including setting expectations on job responsibilities, providing feedback on performance, and providing coaching on effectively performing job duties
- Provide one-on-one and group instruction to nursing staff, enhancing their knowledge and competence in perinatal care
- Communicate and coordinate virtually with StarN Clinical Instructors located across the country
- Lead groups of four to six recent graduate nurses and nurses transitioning to a new specialty (residents) through simulation
- Provide groups with simulation scenarios, assign scenario roles, and ensure learners carry out objective within 20 minutes
- Lead debrief discussion on learnings from scenarios
- Lead and perform skills checkoffs for groups of four or more residents
- Checkoff skills in foley, IV start, blood draw, postpartum hemorrhage, Apgars, newborn assessment, newborn heel sticks, IV pump programming, blood administration, Leopold’s maneuvers, cervix model, and sterile technique
- Collaborate with other Clinical Instructors on assessing the thought processes, skills, and practices of residents for simulation and skills checkoffs
- Communicate feedback to Nurse Residents for improvement
- Communicate to managers and Regional Program Director, through write-ups, any concerns about residents whose continued participation in the program could be a liability or damaging to themselves, other residents, or the program due to poor performance or who exhibit detrimental behavior.
Labor and Delivery nurse
Summerlin Hospital/Medical Center
01.2017 - 03.2021
- Provided care for patients in antepartum, triage, labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn care including high-risk patients
- Assisted physician during delivery, examinations, and surgical procedures by anticipating needs, encouraging patient, and attending to baby after birth
- Coordinated care of low and high-risk laboring women of childbearing age and immediate stabilization of newborn following delivery
- Assisted physicians during delivery and in the OR for C-sections and cerclages
- Acted as a preceptor to new nurses
- Provided education to patients and family members on labor, delivery, pain, and newborn care.
Postpartum nurse
Summerlin Hospital/Medical Center
06.2015 - 01.2017
- Monitored mothers to ensure they were recovering properly, both physically and emotionally
- Acted as a preceptor to new nurses to the floor
- Educated new parents on how to properly care for infants by instructing parents on breastfeeding feeding, bottle feeding, bathing, and all newborn care
- Monitored and assessed mother and newborn after delivery to ascertain proper healing and recovery.
Med Surg/Oncology/Hospice nurse
Gateway Medical Center
02.2014 - 05.2015
- Assessed patients for pain and anxiety management followed by the implementation for needs
- Monitored patient changes and reported conditions to charge RN and doctor
- Communicated effectively to patients, charge RN, doctors, caregivers, and family
- Provided supervision to Nurse Aides
- Monitored patients receiving chemotherapy drugs
- Coordinated with hospice facilities to transfer patients to their care
- Acted as a preceptor for new nurses coming to the floor
- Contributed leadership and guidance to staff as Clinical Supervisor for night shift
- Evaluated patient histories, complaints, and current symptoms
- Educated family members and caregivers on patient care instruction.
Education
Master’s of Science in Nursing - Certified Nurse Midwife
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NVBachelor's of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Phoenix, AZ05.2013
Associates of Science - Nursing
College of Southern Nevada
05.2013
Skills
- Labor and Delivery Support
- Operational Standards
- Prenatal Care
- Education
- Precepting
- Project Implementation
- Delegation and Motivation
- Leadership
- Preeclampsia Management
- Antepartum care
Certification
- ACLS, 10/2024
- BLS, 04/2024
- Intermediate Fetal Monitoring
- Advanced Fetal Monitoring, 05/2024
- NRP, 12/2023
- S.T.A.B.L.E, 01/2024
Affiliations
- American Nurses Association 2013-Present
- AWHONN 2018-Present
- Sigma Theta Tau 2014-Present
- American College of Nurse Midwives 2023-Present
Timeline
Labor and Delivery nurse
Centennial Hills Hospital
04.2022 - Current
Women’s Services, StaRN Instructor
Healthtrust Workforce Solutions
03.2021 - Current
Labor and Delivery nurse
Summerlin Hospital/Medical Center
01.2017 - 03.2021
Postpartum nurse
Summerlin Hospital/Medical Center
06.2015 - 01.2017
Med Surg/Oncology/Hospice nurse
Gateway Medical Center
02.2014 - 05.2015
Master’s of Science in Nursing - Certified Nurse Midwife
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Bachelor's of Science - Nursing
Grand Canyon University
Associates of Science - Nursing
College of Southern Nevada