Lorie Seruntine, Rn

• Conduct comprehensive assessments to identify potential complications in both the birthing person and baby during the postpartum period.
• Improve patient satisfaction by providing compassionate and individualized care to parents and newborns.
• Administer medications as prescribed while diligently observing for adverse reactions or side effects.
• Educate new parents on proper infant care techniques, including infant feeding, swaddling, bonding, diapering.
• Implement evidence-based practices in maternal-child nursing to promote optimal health outcomes for both mother and baby; I designed and implemented my unit's Nursing Skills Day in 2024.
• Participate in ongoing professional development opportunities to stay current on best practices within the field of obstetrics nursing- Serve Unit Council Leader, Professional Governance Council, MCH Equity Taskforce, Breastfeeding Coillaborative

• Coordinate and consult with health care team to plan, implement and assess postpartum, antepartum, GYN, and breast surgery patient care plans.
• Monitor and assess patients prior to delivery, after delivery, and/or surgery to ascertain proper healing and recovery.
• Educate parents on how to properly care for themselves by instructing parents on routine postpartum care as well as the postpartum care of patients with pregnancy-related and/or chronic conditions, infant care/feeding, antepartum care (high-risk), and recovering from different types of GYN and breast surgeries.
• Assist parents in establishing breastfeeding relationships with infants.
• Apply nursing expertise to meet needs of patients in challenging, fast-paced environment on a 30+ bed unit.

• Monitored and assessed parent and newborn after delivery to ascertain proper healing and recovery.
• Coordinated and consulted with patient health care team to plan, implement and assess both mother and infant care plans.
• Educated new parents on how to properly care for infants by instructing parents on infant feeding, bathing, circumcision care, soothing and comforting, and diapering.
• Assisted parents in establishing breastfeeding relationships with infants with proper latching demonstrations, hand expression, and pumping as needed.

• Gather HPI/health history information with pts seeking IV vitamin infusion treatments. Assist pts in co-creating care plans to achieve health goals.
• Initiate PIV/port access; monitor pts during the infusion; de-access PIV/port.
• Provide integrative and holistic health education

• Planned and assigned workload to 5-person nursing staff to direct patient care.
• Established new policies and updated existing policies to improve standard of care for patients.
• Monitored and evaluated nursing staff performance, providing feedback and guidance to support standards of care.
• Established and monitored infection control programs to provide safe, sanitary environment to prevent transmission of disease and infection.
• Fostered and maintained effective communication with staff, physicians and community organizations to promote high quality patient care.
• Ensured clinic compliance in regards to the La State Department of Health inspections

Provided acute telemetry, medical-surgical nursing care, implemented and executed nursing care utilizing care planning process to provide high quality patient care for patients requiring inpatient stay.

Manage and maintain professional cleaning services for 15 clients, provide scheduling, customer service, housekeeping with attention to detail and focus on customer satisfaction and retention

Management and coordination of the organization's various outreach projects, including: meeting coordination and facilitation, completing project design and carrying out action plans, meeting required funding assessments and goals, project evaluation, coordinating and conducting street-based sexual health education and outreach and presentation activities, developing and maintaining networking partnerships, volunteer/intern coordination, grant-writing and funding acquisition

Provided behavioral/emotional peer support and counseling as well as comprehensive sexual/reproductive health and prevention education for high-risk homeless youth ages 16-24. Conducted street outreach to deliver STI and pregnancy prevention messages, as well as parenting support and assistance with high quality community referrals.