Liv Gonzales
Columbia,MO
Summary
Experienced with maternal and neonatal care, offering skilled support throughout childbirth process. Utilizes advanced clinical skills to ensure patient safety and comfort during labor and delivery. Knowledge of effective communication and teamwork, ensuring collaborative and efficient patient care.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Labor and Delivery Nurse as International Travel Under Shearwater Health
Shearwater Health
04.2024 - Current
- Providing comprehensive support to patients during pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period.
- Ensuring a positive and safe birthing experience by fulfilling responsibilities that encompass both medical and emotional aspects of care.
- Diligently track the vital signs of both the mother and baby, including heart rate, contractions, and blood pressure.
- Assisting with important procedures, such as vaginal examinations, administering medications (including epidurals), and facilitating preparations for cesarean sections.
- Coaching and encouragement to the birthing parent help to foster a calm and empowering environment throughout the labor and delivery process.
- Ensure that everyone is informed and ready to respond to any emergencies that may arise.
- Educate patients and their families on the birthing process, pain management options, and essential newborn care practices.
- Provide compassionate support to address the psychosocial needs of new parents, helping them navigate this significant life change.
- Monitored vital signs and fetal heart rates, ensuring timely interventions for patient safety.
- Administered medications and IV fluids according to established protocols, enhancing patient care outcomes.
- Collaborated with healthcare teams to develop individualized birth plans tailored to patient needs.
- Educated patients on labor processes, promoting informed decision-making during childbirth experiences.
- Assisted in high-risk deliveries, applying advanced skills to manage emergencies effectively and efficiently.
- Implemented best practices for infection control, contributing to improved overall hospital safety standards.
- Took records of birthdates and times, baby weights, lengths, head circumferences and APGAR scores.
- Maintained up-to-date knowledge of obstetric advancements and evidence-based practices through ongoing professional education.
- Assisted physicians with cesarean sections, forceps deliveries, and vacuum extractions to ensure safe births for both mother and baby.
- Enhanced patient satisfaction by providing compassionate and individualized care during labor, delivery, and postpartum periods.
- Assisted physician during delivery, examination and surgical procedures by anticipating needs, encouraging patient, and attending to baby after birth.
- Coordinated care of low and high-risk laboring women of childbearing age and immediate stabilization of newborn following delivery.
- Provided effective postpartum care, educating new parents on infant care essentials such as feeding, bathing, and safety practices.
- Reduced complications during childbirth by closely monitoring fetal heart rate and promptly addressing any concerns.
- Advocated for patient preferences in birth plans while maintaining compliance with hospital policies and procedures.
Medical Surgical- NICU
Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital
10.2022 - 01.2024
- Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care plans in consultation with healthcare professionals.
- Evaluating medical information, as well as providing direct and individualized bedside nursing care to pre-and post-surgery patients.
- Preparing, administering and recording prescribed medications.
- Changing dressings, inserting catheters, and starting IVs.
- Adjusting specialized medical equipment as needed, as well as interpreting and recording measurements.
- Monitoring patients' vitals and reporting adverse reactions to medications in a timely manner.
- Collaborating on discharge planning with the healthcare team.
- Answering questions and educating patients and their families on surgical procedures and post-surgery care.
- Maintaining and updating patient files, medical charts, and health records.
- Adhering to best nursing practices, standards, and protocols.
- Admit preterm babies and settle them on radiant warmer or in an incubator or on crib for well babies.
- Monitor vital signs. (pulse oximeter attached for critical pts. And for those babies need close observation).
- Assists attending physician on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (umbilical catheterization, intubation administering ncpap or oxygen, attaching patient on a mechanical ventilator, taking specimen for laboratory).
- Starting intravenous fluids via syringe pump, infusion pump, or soluset. And giving medications as ordered via IVTT, ORAL, IM, OGT.
- Performs routine care (daily bath, cord care).
- Feed babies per OGT, dropper, bottle, cup, assist mother on breastfeeding.
- Bed capacity: 300 beds
Labor and Delivery Nurse
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Hospital
07.2008 - 07.2022
- Within the mission, vision, and values of Saudi Arabian National Guard Health Affairs and the Division of Nursing Services, provide total nursing care for patients.
- Rotates day and night shifts to meet patient care/unit requirements.
- Provides direct patient care utilizing the nursing process within an established hospital, divisional, and unit-specific policies and procedures standards and protocols.
- Demonstrates knowledge and clinical assessment skills appropriate to the clinical area.
- Takes direct and appropriate action in urgent and emergency situations.
- Documents all assessments, interventions, and other pertinent information in the patient’s health care record in a timely and ongoing manner.
- Promotes continuity of care through oral and written communications.
- Demonstrates effective communication and collaboration skills when interacting with patients/families, other health care team members, and staff of other departments.
- Complies with hospital infection control and safety protocols.
- Addresses issues using a problem-solving framework.
- Initiates the nursing medical/administrative chain of command if unable to resolve issues satisfactorily.
- Liaisons with other health care team members and departments to provide continuity of patient care and unit activities.
- Work with all health care team members in activities designed to improve patient care and unit activities.
- Acts as a preceptor and/or resource for new employees, trainees, and other staff.
- Assumes responsibility for own professional growth identifying those areas of clinical knowledge and skills that need further development.
- Uses research/current references in the provision of evidence-based care.
- Participates in teaching and mentoring Nursing, Medical, and Paramedical students, Interns, and Residents.
- Anticipates and acts to maintain a safe environment.
- Assesses own care provided by others, and patient care systems and continuously seek ways to improve.
- Complies with and participates in Quality Management Processes and activities.
- Bed capacity: 100 beds
Delivery-Nicu Staff nurse
Chong Hua Hospital
12.2004 - 01.2008
- Admits and assists expectant mothers on labor and monitors frequency, intensity, and duration of labor.
- Assists attending physician on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, physical and internal examinations.
- Starts an intravenous fluid and administers medicines as ordered.
- Continuous observation of maternal vital signs and fetal heart tone.
- Performs catheterizations, enemas, perineal and surgical preparations.
- Prepares setting, type and instruments for imminent delivery and assist physician on normal spontaneous vaginal delivery (NSVD) or Cesarean section and /or other operative obstetrical procedures to be performed on the mother.
- Notes and records time of delivery of the newborn, and apgar score.
- Institutes routine care on the newborn such as: suctioning oral and nasal secretions; exposing to gooseneck lamp or radiant warmer to prevent heat loss; aseptic cord clamping and dressing; weighing and taking necessary measurements and footprints; giving vitamin k intramuscularly, giving Terramycin on both eyes, bathing and drying the baby before wrapping, putting on the wrist band and latching-on to the mother’s breast.
- Assists physician in performing routine physical and neurologic examinations on the newborns and admits well babies to the nursery and to neonatal intensive care unit for high risk and premature.
- Performs routine care on the mother post-delivery such as palpating the fundus, vital signs monitoring, lochia monitoring, applying ice to swollen perineum or assisting mother for hotsitz bath.
- Anticipates and assess for possible postpartum complications, especially in high-risk mother.
- Provides teaching and demonstrations as indicated for parents, e.g., feeding, burping, holding, diapering, bathing, positioning, and safety.
- As a scrub nurse, anticipate surgeons’ needs and maintain sterility.
- As an anesthetic nurse, maintained documents and monitored anesthesia.
- As a circulating nurse, managed supplies and instruments/ swab count: note the time started, end, and operation.
- Admit preterm babies and settle them on radiant warmer or in an incubator or on crib for well babies.
- Monitor vital signs. (pulse oximeter attached for critical pts. And for those babies need close observation).
- Assists attending physician on diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (umbilical catheterization, intubation administering ncpap or oxygen, attaching patient on a mechanical ventilator, taking specimen for laboratory).
- Starting intravenous fluids via syringe pump, infusion pump, or soluset. And giving medications as ordered via IVTT, ORAL, IM, OGT.
- Performs routine care (daily bath, cord care).
- Feed babies per OGT, dropper, bottle, cup, assist mother on breastfeeding.
- Bed Capacity: 660 beds
Education
Elementary -
CITY CENTRAL SCHOOL
Cebu City, Philippines01.1996
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF CEBU
Cebu, Philippines01.2004
Secondary - undefined
UNIVERSITY OF CEBU
Cebu City, Philippines01.2000
Skills
- Adapts easily to new concepts and responsibilities
- Self-motivated
- Detail oriented
- Works independently
- Team member
- Diverse background in hospitals
- Indoor skills
- Outdoor skills
- Computer-literate
- Bestcare
- Quadramed
- Cerner
- Able to work under pressure
- IV therapy nurse
- Antepartum care
- Breastfeeding support
- Intrapartum care
- Electronic fetal monitoring
- Maternal assessment
- Labor support techniques
- Monitoring vital signs
- IV insertion
- Preterm labor management
- Advanced fetal monitoring
- Gestational diabetes management
- Postpartum hemorrhage management
- Medication distribution
- Patient discharge
- Vaginal delivery assistance
- Postpartum care
- Epidural assistance
- Newborn care
- Obstetric emergencies
- Infant vitals monitoring
- Cesarean section preparation
- Birth coaching
- Group B strep protocol
- Foley catheter insertion
- Oxytocin administration
- HIPAA compliance
- Health promotion
- Emotional support
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Teamwork
- Fetal monitoring
- Labor support
- Epidural administration
Personal Information
- Religion: Roman Catholic
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: Filipino
- Marital Status: Married
Training
- Basic Life Support for Health Care Providers, 2025-10-01
- NRP, 2026-06-01
- Advanced Fetal Monitoring, 2024-07-10
Timeline
Labor and Delivery Nurse as International Travel Under Shearwater Health
Shearwater Health
04.2024 - Current
Medical Surgical- NICU
Cebu Doctors’ University Hospital
10.2022 - 01.2024
Labor and Delivery Nurse
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Hospital
07.2008 - 07.2022
Delivery-Nicu Staff nurse
Chong Hua Hospital
12.2004 - 01.2008
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
UNIVERSITY OF CEBU
Secondary - undefined
UNIVERSITY OF CEBU
Elementary -
CITY CENTRAL SCHOOL