Karen Stevenson
Ipswich,MA
Summary
Adaptable Master's‑level teaching‑nursing student intern interested in clinical leadership, teaching, and patient‑care education. Strong communication and teamwork skills with a commitment to learning, supporting high‑quality nursing care, and contributing to performance improvement.
Overview
35
35
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Atlas Healthcare & Rehab
03.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop and implement effective patient care strategies.
- Monitored patient vital signs, documenting changes and reporting concerns promptly to medical staff.
- Educated patients and families on health management, promoting understanding of treatment options and self-care practices.
- Providing an exceptional standard of care to patients.
- Trained new nursing staff on procedures, protocols, and best practices to enhance team efficiency and performance.
- Administered medications to 20 patients and treatments according to established protocols and patient care plans.
Rehabilitation Registered Nurse
BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy
01.2023 - Current
- Developed personalized care plans based on patient assessments and needs.
- Coordinated with interdisciplinary teams to enhance patient care outcomes.
- Educated patients and families on health management. medication delivery and teaching self administration to some clients.
- Ensured optimal patient outcomes with diligent monitoring of vital signs and timely intervention for any changes.
- Implemented infection control measures to ensure patient safety at home.
- Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to coordinate comprehensive care for patients, resulting in improved overall health.
- Maintained accurate and up-to-date documentation of patient progress, ensuring continuity of care between visits.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
Lactation Consultant, Registered Nurse
Holy Family Hospital
07.2017 - 09.2023
- Educated new mothers on breastfeeding techniques and infant nutrition.
- Developed individualized lactation plans tailored to patient needs.
- Collaborated with healthcare teams to ensure comprehensive maternal care.
- Assisted in organizing lactation support groups for postpartum women.
- Monitored breastfeeding progress and provided ongoing support to families.
- Conducted assessments to identify breastfeeding challenges and solutions.
- Mentored junior staff on best practices in lactation consulting services.
- Improved patient outcomes by providing comprehensive lactation support and education to new mothers.
- Increased breastfeeding success rates through one-on-one consultations, addressing individual concerns and challenges.
Registered Nurse
North Shore Medical Center
08.2001 - 07.2023
- As part of the breastfeeding team, daily using my 30 years' experience of supporting breastfeeding: use research practice, teach, support, problem solve, empower, and advocate breastfeeding within the birthplace.
- Management and care of clients in antepartum, labor, and postpartum specialties. Employ sharp analytical and problem-solving skills in assessment of client and babies.
- Enhance and have become very experienced in OR skills as a scrub nurse and circulating nurse.
- Charge Nurse of antepartum, labor, and postpartum staff. Within the charge nurse role utilized management, supervisory, critical thinking, delegation, organizational and communication skills.
- Overseeing care of babies in a low-risk nursery and when there was increased acuity assist intermittently in special care.
- Worked well as part of a teamwork setting and completed training in crisis resource management for labor and delivery. Decisively and confidently made judgments on clients' conditions and called doctors based on decisions. Effectively assimilated, interpreted, and reported changing client data to ensure optimum care. Able to handle high pressure clinical environments well.
- Orientated and trained students and newly qualified Registered Nurses in Obstetrics regularly.
- Caring for a variety of multicultural clients and those of all socioeconomic groups. Particularly Spanish, Portuguese, African and those from India.
- Utilization of venipuncture, IV therapy, Midwifery and Lactation Consultation skills on a frequent basis..
- Demonstrate exemplary documentation skills. Gained expertise in computer documentation and often taught other staff. Good knowledge of word, excel and power point.
- Previously on the committee for the Nursing Research Practice Council for the hospital.
Lactation Consultant
North Shore Medical Center
01.2006 - 01.2012
- Work as part of a Lactation Consultant Team. Utilizing research knowledge, teaching skills, educating staff, and raising awareness of the importance of breastfeeding. Seeing mothers on an outpatient consult as an LC. Teach breastfeeding classes for the first year.
- Empowering women by respectfully teaching them breastfeeding skills and giving mothers support for success.
Registered Midwife
Lothian University NHS Trust
03.1994 - 10.2000
- Management of clients care from conception to 28 days postpartum.
- Gained expertise in the following areas: antepartum, labor and delivery, OR Scrub and Circulate, triage, high risk obstetric intensive care, postpartum and office clinic visits. Rotational position. Acquired vast experience of high-pressure environments and adapted well to this. Over the 7 years delivered excess of 500 births.
- Teaching and coordinating birth education classes for over 1.5 years. Planned the format for an 8-week course. Frequently teaching breastfeeding classes during that time.
- Six years' experience with a focus on delivering babies, scrub nurse for cesarean sections, care of the client with high and low risk pregnancies, breastfeeding support, counseling, pregnancy loss and parenting issues. Practiced researched based care.
- Cared for a variety of multicultural and socioeconomic clients: including clients with addiction issues.
- Taught and mentored medical, midwifery and nursing students frequently within the clinical setting. Supervised midwifery and medical students in assisting deliveries. Supervised newly qualified Midwives within the labor ward.
- Coordinated, managed, and used delegation skills as Charge Midwife at ward level within the antepartum and postpartum areas in the absence of the Senior Midwife. Provided a very high standard of midwifery care. Daily teaching breastfeeding within the postpartum period.
- Competent in midwife prescribing, breastfeeding education, counseling skills, venipuncture, labor induction, perineal suturing, epidural top-ups and IV therapy.
- Involved in writing clinical policies. Literate in computer technologies.
Registered General Nurse
St Helier NHS Trust
07.1991 - 08.1992
- As a Charge Nurse, managing, delegating and organization of the ward staff in the absence of the Senior Nurse.
- Provided excellent nursing care within an acute orthopedics and medical units.
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care using critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Orientation and precepting student nurses and newly qualified staff.
Education
Master of Science - Nurse Education
Endicott College
Beverly, MA07-2026
Bachelor of Science - Midwifery
Queen Margaret University
Edinburgh, Scotland07-2000
Registered Midwife -
Napier University
Edinburgh, Scotland05.1992
Registered General Nurse -
Kingston University
Croydon, England05.1991
Registered Enrolled Nurse - undefined
North Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery
Edinburgh, Scotland01.1996
Skills
- Excellent organizational skills and able to multi-task on a high functioning level
- Outpatient clinic and home visit experience as a midwife and midwife student
- Experienced charge nurse with an insight into promoting good team spirit
- Extensive experience of patient education and teaching students within the clinical setting
- Good computer and typing skills Very familiar with epic, Alyacare and PCC computer systems, word, excel and power point
- Staff education, training new staff and students within the clinical area
- Experience of updating protocols and risk management committee
- Involved in hiring new staff including interviewing potential candidates
- Teaching breastfeeding to all ethnic groups via one-to-one consultation and group classes
- Seasoned Lactation Consultant seeing patients on an inpatient and outpatient basis
- Previous experience of running a breastfeeding classes, fetal loss groups and support group on a weekly basis
- Excellent IV insertion skills 25 years' experience
- Experience in High-Risk Recovery Care after surgery as a Midwife which utilized my strong observational skills
- Including RN and Nurse Training 2-3 years full-time experience in medical and surgical nursing
- Worked as an RN on the Medical Unit in caring for Oncology/terminally ill patients and orthopedic trauma unit
Accomplishments
- May 2023 Recognized in the Boston Globe for the salute to nurse's week for clinical care.
- May 2012 Nominee for a Clinical Excellence Award (for breastfeeding teaching)
- June 2010 Recognized in Hospital News flyer for achieving RNC-OB
- May 2010 Recognized in the Boston Globe for the Salute to Nurses Week for clinical care.
- Dec 2009 Received a group Clinical Excellence Award
- May 2006 Clinical Excellence Award nominee (for patient care and breastfeeding teaching)
- Ongoing Repeated nominations by patients, colleagues, and staff for the ‘make my day' recognition.
Affiliations
- Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International – Nurse Leader.
- Royal College of Midwifery, London.
- ILCA Membership.
- Elected student class representative during midwifery training.
- Enjoy walking, short story writing, art, sewing, drawing and music.
- Preformed in Edinburgh Military Tattoo (5 years) and Loon Mountain as a Scottish Country Dancer.
Certification
- International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant - July 2006, Renewed 2021 (L-33438)
- RNC Inpatient Obstetric Nurse qualification - 2005
- Certified Lactation Counselor - 2004,
- Registered Nurse - January 2001 License, Massachusetts expires 12/18/26. Licensed Nurse in Vermont.
- Physical assessment Course - Grade 4.0 Fitchburg State College, Fitchburg, MA. 2000
- BLS and ACLS certification - 2025. IBCLC ex 2026.
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Atlas Healthcare & Rehab
03.2023 - Current
Rehabilitation Registered Nurse
BioMatrix Specialty Pharmacy
01.2023 - Current
Lactation Consultant, Registered Nurse
Holy Family Hospital
07.2017 - 09.2023
Lactation Consultant
North Shore Medical Center
01.2006 - 01.2012
Registered Nurse
North Shore Medical Center
08.2001 - 07.2023
Registered Midwife
Lothian University NHS Trust
03.1994 - 10.2000
Registered General Nurse
St Helier NHS Trust
07.1991 - 08.1992
Registered Enrolled Nurse - undefined
North Lothian College of Nursing and Midwifery
Master of Science - Nurse Education
Endicott College
Bachelor of Science - Midwifery
Queen Margaret University
Registered Midwife -
Napier University
Registered General Nurse -
Kingston University