Lori Del Vecchio RN, BSN, RNC-OB, CEFM
Palm Harbor,FL
Summary
Resourceful, motivated, and compassionate RN with experience in Labor and Delivery and Pediatrics. Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities, critical thinking, assess patients' needs, and effectively educate families. Proven ability as an effective and loyal team member and relief charge nurse; experience in working with diverse groups and environments. Successful in working in a high stress, fast paced settings.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Advent Health Wesley Chapel
Wesley Chapel, FL
02.2021 - Current
- Acted as patient advocate and implemented total patient care through team nursing process.
- Trained and mentored new and experienced RNs on best practices, hospital policies, and standards of care.
- Assessed and prepared patients for procedures, performing initial and ongoing patient assessments.
- Trained to work as a well-baby nurse, administering medications, performing head-to-toe assessment, initiating breastfeeding, and communicating with sick baby RN and provider on call.
- Relief charge nurse on night shift arranging patient assignments and managing patient flow from triage to labor to postpartum.
- Superuser for My Bedside Charting tablets and SLE for Epic.
Registered Nurse
BayCare Health System Inc.
Tampa, FL
04.2014 - 02.2021
- Administered full nursing care for normal and high-risk pregnancies for antepartum and intrapartum patients in a 20-bed unit delivering about 5,500 babies a year. To include assessment, implementation of plan of care, medication management, and electronic charting.
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions, and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
- Provided mother and newborn hands-on care during high-risk deliveries, including antepartum, intrauterine fetal demise, deliveries of twins, teenage mothers, preeclampsia and eclampsia, premature rupture of membranes receiving IV antibiotics, patients receiving magnesium sulfate infusion, patients with drug addictions, diabetic mothers with insulin infusions, blood transfusions, amnioinfusions, and amniocentesis support.
- Monitored and educated nursing students and interns on proper care procedures and prioritization strategies.
- Circulating RN for add-on, ASAP, and STAT cesarean sections from triage and labor and delivery.
- As a neonatal admission nurse, I was responsible for administering Vitamin K and erythromycin to newborns, performing a full head-to-toe assessment, and communicating any abnormalities to the newborn nursery.
Registered Nurse
United States Army
Landstuhl, Germany
03.2010 - 03.2014
- Perform all duties required to safely and effectively provide patient care for infants to adolescents in a fast-paced ambulatory clinic.
- Coordinated care with physicians and other clinical staff to prepare for treatment, carry out interventions, and enhance continuum of care to deliver comprehensive services.
- Head nurse for physicians, managed daily scheduled, performed morning huddle to clinic of provviders schediles and expectastions for the day.
- Triaged patients by phone and in clinic for sick visits. Followed up with patients after clinic visits to ensure continuity of care.
- Provided teaching to parents and children on medication administration, plan of care, and necessary follow-up appointments.
- Managed organization and administration of Synagis for qualified patient population. Coordinated with providers from across Europe in assisting with their local patient population in administering Synagis in clinic.
- Preceptor of new nurse employees and assisted in training staff in immunization administration.
Registered Nurse
Forsyth Medical Center
Winston-Salem, NC
06.2007 - 10.2009
- Administered full nursing care for normal and high risk pregnancies in a 24 bed unit delivering more than 7000 babies a year. Unit served as regions high risk pregnancy center.
- Triaged patients in 8 bed triage unit, coordinating with physicians on course of actions, acceptance or discharge. Provided discharge teaching.
- Provided mother and newborn hands on care during deliveries to include antepartum, intrauterine fetal demise, deliveries of twins and triplets, teenage mothers, preeclampsia and eclamptic patients, premature rupture of membranes receiving IV antibiotic infusions, preterm labor, patients receiving magnesium infusion, patients' with drug addictions, deliveries of newborns with abnormalities, blood transfusions, amnioinfusions, and amniocentesis support.
- Provided labor support and communication with residents, physicians, ancillary staff, neonatal intensive care unit, mother/baby unit, and operating room staff.
- Preceptor for new nurse graduates aiding in their transition from classroom to clinical setting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University Of North Carolina At Greensboro
Greensboro, NC05.2007
Certification
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification July 2006-present
- Registered Nurse, NC June 2007- November 2014
- Registered Nurse, FL February 2014-present
- Neonatal Resuscitation Provider (NRP) October 2007- present
- Stable November 2013-present
- RNC-OB June 2015-present
- EFM-C December 2019-present
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Advent Health Wesley Chapel
02.2021 - Current
Registered Nurse
BayCare Health System Inc.
04.2014 - 02.2021
Registered Nurse
United States Army
03.2010 - 03.2014
Registered Nurse
Forsyth Medical Center
06.2007 - 10.2009
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
University Of North Carolina At Greensboro
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