LACRESHA N. JOYCE

• Perform daily hospital rounds on all mothers in Labor & Delivery and NICU
• Implement care plans based on maternal/newborn assessment findings
• Create lactation education and Birth Center marketing materials for patients and community.
• Responsible for ordering lactation education and Birth Center marketing materials
• Teach education classes for perinatal population in local community.
• Monitor national and departmental health trends and data to identify health concerns and develop related health education initiatives for staff.
• Analyze neonatal inpatient data and create reports to present to management team, perinatal committee, and hospital administration
• Manage hourly schedule and work flow of lactation department
• Served as hospital’s Team Lead for opening on-campus Milk Depot for Mothers’ Milk Bank Tennessee-3rd in state of TN and 1st in Tristar HCA Division
• Currently serve as hospital’s Milk Depot Director and coordinate all operational and procedural activities of depot
• Collaborated with NICU/WBN manager to develop, implement, and maintain Human Donor Milk program for inpatient NICU and WBN use
• Manage all communication with milk banks and human donor milk orders
• Annually review department specific policies, procedure guidelines, and patient consent forms
• Responsible for creating and updating annual and new hire Lactation and Human Donor Milk education for all Labor & Delivery and NICU staff

• Responsible for direct care of OB triage, GYN, antepartum, labor, postpartum, and newborn patients, including patients with high risk and/or complicated pregnancies
• Performed maternal physical examination, fetal monitor interpretation, SVE, and IV therapy
• Assisted physician in vaginal delivery and bedside procedures such as ROM, IUPC and FSE placement
• Received newborn in vaginal and cesarean section delivery, perform initial and ongoing newborn assessment, and administer ordered newborn medications
• Assisted OR circulator during cesarean section
• Provided education and attend to emotional needs of pregnant and/or postpartum patients and their families
• Conferred with physicians to discuss diagnoses and devise well-coordinated treatment approaches.

• ADN program with 95% NCLEX pass rate, Managed and coordinated patient care with groups of 6-8 students, in maternal/child clinical setting, including labor and delivery, nursery, and mother/baby
• Instructed proper clinical nursing methods, such as antepartum/postpartum assessments, Foley catheter insertion, drug calculations, medication administration, as well as professional behavioral expectations
• Supplemented classroom and clinical instruction with additional support & teaching in preparation for exams or at student requests for assistance with skills
• Received 100% positive student feedback on instructor evaluations.

Charge nurse for an urgent care facility specializing in sutures, xrays, casts, physicals, and drug screens

Registered nurse on a 36 bed antepartum, postpartum, and gyn patient care unit