Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
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Kayla Woodley

Durham,NC

Summary

Compassionate Registered Nurse with strong background in labor and delivery nursing and OR nursing with a background in trauma who desires to grow into the next stage through clinical instruction. Demonstrated ability to support mothers through labor and postpartum stages, ensuring high-quality care and patient satisfaction. Proven skills in emergency response and patient education.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery

UNC Health
08.2023 - Current
  • Currently working in a high-risk, highly acute labor and delivery unit as a Clinical Nurse 2.
  • Proficient in role of scrubbing and circulating all cases including but not limited to c-sections, cerclage, in-utero fetal procedures, D&C/D&E, hemorrhages requiring massive transfusion, abdominal and vaginal hysterectomies, cystoscope, and wound debridement.
  • Duties include: facilitated labor and delivery processes, ensuring patient safety and comfort for both unmedicated and medicated deliveries, managing blood transfusions with multiple IV drips, magnesium drips for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and pre-term labor, insulin drips, hypertensive crisis, maternal and neonatal resuscitation and codes, caring for patients on pressors and nicardipine drips, and caring for patients with extensive cardiac careplans.
  • Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans for expectant mothers and neonatal/fetal loss patients.
  • Advanced fetal monitoring certification
  • Caring for patients in the immediate post-partum and PACU stages of recovery, facilitating breastfeeding/formula feeding in a baby-friendly certified facility, breast pumping education, and routine newborn care.

Obstetric/ Perinatal Technician

Duke University Hospital Birthing Center
01.2022 - 08.2023
  • Functions as an Obstetrics/Perinatal Technician/scrub in the OB OR. Duties include: monitoring maternal and neonatal vital signs/blood sugars, monitoring strips, sterile field setup, scrubbing into surgeries, priming fluids, placing foleys, sterile dressing changes, monitoring device management, assisting with hemorrhages, and working directly with OB providers and nurses to ensure proper management of antepartum, laboring, and postpartum patients.
  • On duties include: preparing OB (and main) OR’s for incoming patients, setting up the OR, stocking, maintaining OR sterility while setting up the field, while in the procedure, and through the conclusion of the procedures, functioning within the surgery as a ‘second pair of hands,’ clear communication of needs during the procedure, ensuring correct counts and sutures, applying sterile and pressures dressings, and knowledge of over 500 surgical instruments/medications/suture types.

Nursing Care Assistant and Preceptor

Duke University Hospital Trauma Center
01.2020 - 01.2022
  • Worked with Trauma Step-down patients in the capacity of a NA II. The patient population included Gunshot wounds, stabbings, car accidents, victims of violent crimes, hemorrhaging, mass catastrophes, etc. Duties included checking vital signs, removing catheters, priming fluids, I/O catheters, removing IVs, mobilizing patients, finger stick readings, oxygen therapy, bladder scanning, wound care, changing non-sterile dressings, tube feedings, suctioning, tracheostomy care, elimination procedures, and obtaining and transporting units of whole blood. Took care of approximately 16 acute step-down trauma patients daily

Spanish Research Editor and Teaching Assistant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill–Romance Language Department
05.2019 - 12.2019
  • Assisted in translation and editing a 1000-page Spanish dissertation for publication on the works and influence of Sor Juana Ines del Cruz under the supervision of a world-renowned professor and the department of Foreign Languages at UNC. Additionally, I independently taught a synchronized section of an intermediate-level Spanish course to first and second-year undergraduates at UNC Chapel Hill, Fall 2019.

Clinical Support Technician

UNC Children’s Hospital Clinical Support Technician
12.2017 - 05.2019
  • Worked on 7 children’s—a pediatric medical, burn, trauma, and abuse floor caring for children ages 0-20. Duties included burns dressing changes, delivery of baths, taking vital signs, charting, collecting glucose levels and urine analysis tests, intake/output, turning patients, baths, and daily basic hygiene for 12-18 patients at a time. It also included many clerical duties such as managing patients’ charts, auditing, documenting movement between different hospital areas (such as OR to ICUs), ordering supplies for the unit, stocking/reorganizing as needed, restraint documentation.

Education

Bachelors of Science in Nursing (ABSN) -

UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing
Chapel Hill, NC
08-2023

Bachelors in Exercise Science - Minor in Spanish for the Medical Professions

University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
05.2020

High School Diploma - undefined

Orange High School
Hillsborough, NC
06.2016

Skills

  • ACLS certified and NRP certified (expires Oct 2025)
  • Fluent in Spanish and English, moderate ability in French
  • Leadership in teaching nursing students and across the unit
  • Scrub-capable Registered Nurse
  • Breastfeeding support
  • Obstetric emergency response
  • IV insertion
  • Epidural administration
  • Antepartum, intrapartum, and high-risk postpartum care
  • Electronic fetal heart rate interpretation

Accomplishments

  • Precepted multiple new staff members to Duke University Hospital and UNC Health
  • 5x daisy award nominations
  • Duke Hospital “Gold Star” awards as pins for excellent patient care (received 6x—03/20, 10/20, 01/21, 07/21, 12/21, 8/22)
  • 7 Children’s “Rookie of the year award” (April, 2019)

Certification

  • Registered Nursing Permanent license (#360831, expiration 08/31/2027)
  • GE Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certification
  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) provider certification (Valid until: 11/2025)
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Advanced Provider certification (Valid until 12/31/2025)

Timeline

Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery

UNC Health
08.2023 - Current

Obstetric/ Perinatal Technician

Duke University Hospital Birthing Center
01.2022 - 08.2023

Nursing Care Assistant and Preceptor

Duke University Hospital Trauma Center
01.2020 - 01.2022

Spanish Research Editor and Teaching Assistant

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill–Romance Language Department
05.2019 - 12.2019

Clinical Support Technician

UNC Children’s Hospital Clinical Support Technician
12.2017 - 05.2019

High School Diploma - undefined

Orange High School

Bachelors of Science in Nursing (ABSN) -

UNC Chapel Hill School of Nursing

Bachelors in Exercise Science - Minor in Spanish for the Medical Professions

University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill
Kayla Woodley