Kayla Hilmes

Highly efficient and compassionate Labor and Delivery nurse with 13 years of Labor experience in a hospital setting. Fully versed in all aspects of womens care including antepartum, labor and delivery, post partum, and triage. Possess exceptional critical thinking skills in a fast paced, high acuity hospital setting. Provide quality efficient and safe care to expecting mothers. Assess patients in triage for preterm labor, active labor, rupture of waters, pregnancy complications, or co-existing issues

• Job Resposibilities:
• Assist in maintaining pregnancy in antepartum mothers
• Fetal assessment and monitoring
• Maternal physical assessment(s)
• Manage patients in labor, including induction assistance, epidural assistance, pain management, education, and delivery support
• Assist and circulate in operating room for cesarean sections, tubal, and emergency obstetric and gynecological procedures
• Medication administration and immunizations
• Patient education related to medications, labor, pushing, delivering, and postpartum care of mother and baby
• Newborn care and assessment for healthy infant
• Breastfeeding and postpartum support/management
• Charting via electronic medical records
• Assist with fetal demise
• Collaboration with care management team, including anesthesiologist, physician or midwife, lactation nurse, and charge nurse

• Texas Nursing License
• ACLS
• BLS
• NRP
• C-EFM