Lynette Caraway

• Delivered care to Post-Partum mother's and Infant, NICU, Pediatric patients.
• Helped patients and families feel comfortable during challenging and stressful situations, promoting recovery and reducing compliance issues.
• Plan, implements and evaluate patient care based on patient assessment.
• Monitor records and communicate patient conditions, updated supervising physicians with observations and concerns.
• Coordinated with healthcare team to establish, enact and evaluate patient care and learning needs.
• Helped patients and families feel comfortable during challenging and stressful situations, promoting recovery and reducing compliance issues.
• Prioritized and organized tasks to efficiently accomplish service goals.
• Evaluated patients, recognized and addressed complications and coordinated treatment with other members of critical care team.
• Advocated for patients by supporting and respecting basic rights, values and beliefs.
• Provided patient and family health education focusing on self-management, prevention and wellness.

• Reviewed and tracked progress of mothers in labor, interpreted fetal heart monitor and informed delivering physician of status.
• As a charge nurse, provided training and supervision to member of the staff on unit.
• Cared for pregnant women expecting imminent birth and for babies immediately after birth in hospitals and health clinics.
• Circulate and recover Patient during and after Cesarean section.
• Assist with the process of assisting patients during and after childbirth.
• Cared for patients Antepartum and post-partum by preparing educating patient and family members on plan of care.
• Manage Magnesium drips, Pitocin drips, Insulin drips.
• Level 1 nursery.
• Perform physical assessment of newborn and care of Infant in nursery and Mother/Baby care.
• Coordinated, tasked and supervised nurses and ancillary staff based on staffing requirements.
• Trained and mentored new RNs on best practices, hospital policies and standards of care.
• Evaluate learning needs of the patient providing education on patient needs.

• Addressed patient care needs, including collecting vitals, Trach management and care, Gastric Tube care and feeding through GT.
• Directed implementation of improved patient care and documentation methods and procedures to achieve quality objectives.
• Evaluated patient care procedural changes for effectiveness and made necessary adjustments.
• Communicated effectively with parents to explain treatment, care and teaching of Child.
• Plan, implemented and evaluate patient care based on patient assessment.

-Cared for patients both Antepartum and postpartum by preparing educating patient and family members on plan of care.

-Closely monitored acute conditions, example: Hypertension, Diabetes, Preterm labor.

-Established and maintained effective communication with physicians, patients, family members, hospital staff, administration, and management.

-Manage Magnesium drips, Insulin drips, Pitocin drips.

-Provided skilled emergency response in critical situations. Developed patient care plans, including assessments, evaluations and nursing diagnoses.

-Provided skilled emergency response in critical situations.

-Advocated for patients by communicating their care preferences to practitioners, ensuring interventions met their goals for treatment.

-Fetal monitoring

-Level 2 nursery care

-Performed basic physical assessments of newborns and infants.

-Mother/baby care.

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-Administered heart and blood pressure medication to cardiac patients as prescribed by their physicians.

-Monitor and read Telemetry.

-Manage education drips and pushes, Example Cardizem drip, Amiodarone drip.

-Nursing care of patients on Telemetry floor. Example: Medical/surgical with telemetry, Open heart, Cardiac catheterization.