Highly motivated and passionate individual with eight years of experience as an LDRP nurse and six years as a charge nurse. Skilled in providing culturally competent care for people of all different racial, socioeconomic backgrounds and gender identities and sexual orientations. Focused on evidenced-based and trauma informed care of the obstetric individual and their family.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
05.2020 - Current
I contributed to the opening and establishment of this new birth center in downtown Seattle by creating workflows, policies, and standardization of processes.
Admitted and managed care of laboring patients and assisted providers during deliveries.
Circulated in an operating room for routine and stat cesarean sections.
Supervised unit and made staffing decisions as a charge nurse.
Assisted with newborn transitions in the delivery room, administered medications, and supported breastfeeding initiatives.
Managed care of multiple mother/baby couplets in the postpartum period.
Experience as a special care nursery RN, caring for infants with IVs, enteral feeding and drug withdrawal.
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery
St. Anne's Hospital
Burien, WA
10.2016 - 08.2020
Admitted, managed care of antepartum, laboring and postpartum patients, and assisted providers during delivery
Ability to circulate in an operating room for routine and stat cesarean sections.
Supervised unit and made staffing decisions as a charge nurse.
Trained in care management of multiple mother/baby couplets in the postpartum period.
Experience in contacting on-call providers (OB, midwife, anesthesiologist) to update on patient status, obtain orders, and manage pain.
Experience as a level II nursery RN, caring for infants with IVs, enteral feeding and drug withdrawal.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA
05-2016
Skills
Quality improvement
Student precepting
Trauma informed care
Patient advocacy
Time management abilities
Critical thinking
Interpersonal communication
Accomplishments
Received Daisy Award nominations in addition to being on the winning team of the Team Daisy Award for the entire Birth Center at Virginia Mason Medical Center