Overview
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Mercedes Coram

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse

Dallas Methodist Health System
02.2024 - Current
  • Skilled in providing emotional and physical support to laboring individuals, advocating for patient preferences and birth plans while ensuring safety and comfort.
  • Trained to act quickly in obstetric emergencies and triage patients.
  • Effective communicator and team player in high-stress situations, working closet with OBGYNs, anesthesiologists, and support staff.

Student Nurse

University of Iowa
08.2023 - 12.2023
  • Gained experiences observing and assisting with the assessment of premature and critically ill newborns, including monitoring respiratory efforts, temperature regulation and reflexes.
  • Assisted with collecting and interpreting neonatal vital signs, understanding normal ranges and signs of distress in preterm or full term infants.

Patient care technician

Trinity Medical Center
08.2021 - 06.2023
  • Accurately obtain and document vital signs, intake and output, blood glucose levels and report any abnormalities to nurse staff promptly.
  • Actively collaborated with RNs, LPNs, and other team members to provide cohesive, efficient care in a fast paced environment.
  • Provide compassionate, respectful care with bathing, toleting, repositioning, oral care, and ambulation to promote dignity and prevent complications.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

St. Ambrose University
Davenport, IA
12.2023

Skills

  • Triage
  • Therapeutic communication
  • Administering high risk medications
  • PACU
  • OR
  • Antepartum
  • Patient education
  • Interdisciplinary teamwork

Awards

  • Basic Life Support
  • Intermediate fetal monitoring
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support
  • Daisy Award Nominee
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program
  • Capstone student preceptor

Timeline

Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse

Dallas Methodist Health System
02.2024 - Current

Student Nurse

University of Iowa
08.2023 - 12.2023

Patient care technician

Trinity Medical Center
08.2021 - 06.2023

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

St. Ambrose University
Mercedes Coram