Mariah Wallace

I am a compassionate and highly motivated new graduate Registered Nurse seeking to apply my clinical skills, and knowledge to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children's Hospital Colorado. Eager to contribute to a multidisciplinary team by providing high-quality, evidence-based care to critically ill newborns and their families, while continually expanding my expertise in neonatal nursing through mentorship and professional development opportunities.

Children's Hospital Colorado Springs - Pediatric Nursing : 45 hours

• 24 clinical hours completed in the NICU.
• Obtain pediatric vital signs and immediately report abnormalities to primary RN.
• Therapeutic communication with a variety of pediatric age groups, as well as the caregivers.
• Preparing and administering tube feeding to the neonatal patients.
• Observed RN charting, medication administration, and techniques of care for the pediatric and neonatal population .
• Changed neonatal diapers and understood the importance of weighing output.

UCHealth Memorial North Hospital - Maternal/ Obstetric Nursing: 45 hours

• Obtains maternal vital signs and immediately reports abnormalities to primary RN.
• Provides support and communication to a laboring patient.
• Obtains newborn vital signs with nursery RN.
• Successful newborn medication administration.
• Monitors for signs of postpartum bleeding and provides fundal massages appropriately.

Penrose Main Hospital - Transition into Professional Nursing Practice: 108 hours

• Manages total care of 3-4 patients.
• Formulates a plan of care with critically ill patients.
• Successful labs draw from the central line.
• Responded rapidly to the recognition of declining patients.

Penrose Main Hospital - Advanced concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing II: 121.5 hours

• Manages total care of 3-4 patients.
• Formulates a plan of care with stable and critically ill patients.
• Demonstrates safe medication administration with RN to include IV push.
• Sterile central line care.

Peak View Behavioral Hospital - Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: 58.5 Hours

• Demonstrates therapeutic communication techniques with patients of varying mental health disorders.
• Advocate for patient safety and their goals.
• Understanding of the patient plan of care based on diagnosis.
• Notify the primary RN and care team of unsafe behaviors or plans.

Penrose Main Hospital : Advanced Concepts of Medical-Surgical Nursing I: 135 hours

• Manages care of 3 patients.
• Demonstrates safe medication administration with RN.
• Successful foley catheter insertion.
• Successful oral-gastric tube insertion.

St. Francis Hospital - Medical-Surgical Nursing Concepts: 148.5 hours

• Provides total care to 2-3 patients.
• Demonstrates safe medication administration with RN to include PO, IM, SQ, and IV piggyback.
• Proficient charting in EPIC.
• Ambulates patients safely.
• Successful IV insertion.
• Successful straight catheterization.

Center at Centennial - Fundamentals of Nursing: 90 hours

• Provide excellent patient care.
• Demonstrates successful head-to-toe assessment.
• Demonstrates safe medication administration with instructor.
• Provides help with activities of daily living and hygiene to all patients .

• American Nurses Association
• Student Nurse Council

• CPR Certification- current