Misty Nix

Supports all clinical aspects within OBGYN clinic, Maternal Fetal Medicine, Gynecologic Oncology, Screening and Prevention. Serves as the chair for the Maternal Child Health Clinical Core Business Group. Brings a strong sense of passion and drive to bring stakeholders together to collaboratively achieve process improvement across the maternal child health umbrella of services.

• Evaluate the healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connect them with optimal providers and care while in town and upon return to their home village as appropriate.
• Ensure proper, emotionally supportive and culturally sensitive care for all patients within our care community. and outlying regions.
• Planned, developed and implemented strategies to develop unit policies and flows with key decision makers.
• Trained new nurses in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols in high risk obstetric care and gynecology via both group classroom and one-on-one instruction.
• Respond promptly and professionally to coworker and patient questions and concerns.
• Maintained strict confidentiality in all coworker mentoring situations unless abuse, neglect or threats identified.
• Applied excellent negotiation, communication and conflict management skills to facilitate effective discussions.
• Evaluated healthcare needs, goals for treatment and collaborative resources available for each Customer-Owner based on diagnosis and healthcare region service availability.
• Conducted regular re-evaluations to address changes in needs and conditions, introducing revisions to care plans after every provider interaction and as needed.
• Liaised with physicians and midwives regarding patient needs, performance and changes via multiple platforms.
• Coordinated with interdisciplinary professionals to develop plans of care, administer tests and monitor patient status.
• Authored clinical notes and updates to be reviewed by customer-owner's care team, including transfer of care notes to ensure proper continuity of care upon return to PCP or rural healthcare setting.
• Worked with suppliers, vendors and regional contacts on provision of medical equipment, items, supplies and services.

• Charge nurse on L&D, Postpartum and OB Triage floor. Oversee up to 8 labor, 5 triage and 20 couplet patients per shift.
• Self-directed with astute judgment and assessment skills. High level of personal accountability.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Train new staff to L&D, OBTriage, and Charge in proper techniques, care standards, operational procedures and safety protocols.
• Allocate staff and resources to various parts of ANMC to meet patient care needs.
• Ensure proper, emotionally supportive and culturally sensitive care for all patients within our care community.
• Counsel families and patients through postpartum issues.
• Talk with families about preferred care methods.
• Educate and work with patients who may have no previous exposure to the health care system or life outside their village to help them navigate the system and adhere to their care plan. Collaborate POC between patient and family, providers, ancillary departments and nursing care team to provide thorough, appropriate and culturally sensitive patient care.
• Work closely with doctors and midwives to triage and facilitate patient care as well as perform planned, urgent and emergent bedside and OR based surgeries.
• Evaluate the healthcare needs, goals for treatment and available resources of each patient and connect them with optimal providers and care while in town and upon return to their home village as appropriate.
• Document patient information obtained from interviews.
• Call patients to discuss physician orders, plan of care and schedule procedures.
• Assess need for and facilitate ordering , obtaining and interpreting appropriate lab tests and procedures. Perform venapuncture, collect blood, tissue and other laboratory specimens and prepare them for lab testing.
• Make appropriate interventions by reading and interpreting fetal heart monitors and health of mother during labor. Provide skilled emergency response in critical situations.
• Closely monitor acute conditions and act promptly based on years of experience and critical thinking skills.
• Resupplied offices and examination rooms, labeled drawers and ordered new stock.
• Assist patients with activities of daily living and comfort measures.
• Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management and treatment of various complications of pregnancy.
• Advocate for patients by communicating their care preferences to practitioners, ensuring interventions met their goals for treatment and identifying insurance coverage.
• Schedule appointments and assist in arranging transport of patients to medical facilities appropriate to their needs. Collaborate in discharge planning and transportation/housing needs.
• Audited charts and reviewed clinical documents to verify accuracy.

• Self-directed with astute judgment skills. High level of personal accountability.
• Strong leader for nursing personnel assigned to the unit/shift while maintaining a high level of staff morale and professionalism.
• Trained newly hired nurses on Oswego Hospital's practices and procedures.
• Performed and oversaw patient care in med-surg, pediatric, newborn nursery and postpartum units, adeptly handling all aspects of treatment from medication to wound care and telemetry monitoring for up to 47 patients per shift and later to managing up to 8 NB or couplet pairs on our NB nursery unit.
• Scheduled patient admissions and discharges as well as made patient care assignments to appropriate team members.
• Provided skilled emergency response in critical situations.
• Performed age-appropriate physical assessments of newborns, infants, schoolaged and adolescent children, postpartum mothers as well as med-surg adult customers through end-of-life care.
• Ensured proper, compassionate and emotionally sensitive care for victims of child abuse and domestic violence.
• Provided basic and advanced newborn care including bathing, feeding, immunizations, respiratory assistance and resuscitation,.IV placement and fluid management, hearing and newborn screens, circumcision care, and family support and education.
• Assisted patients with ADLs in a dignified manner.
• Talked with families about preferred care methods and developed healthcare plans for individuals and families to incorporate these methods.
• Helped young patients feel comfortable with procedures and immunizations.
• Instructed patients and family members on proper discharge care to manage individual conditions.
• Educated patients about the use and benefits of equipment such as home blood pressure cuffs and glucose meters.
• Worked closely with doctors to triage and facilitate patient care.
• Prepared procedure trays, sterile fields and supplies.
• Assisted doctors with bedside as well as OR based procedures.

• Administered controlled narcotics, inserted IVs and performed catheterizations.
• Cared for wounds, provided treatments and assisted with procedures.
• Input medical histories, symptoms and vital statistics as part of the intake process.
• Collected biological samples for laboratory tests.
• Triaged patient issues to maximize efficiency.
• Trained new staff on quality control procedures.
• Assessed patients and documented their medical histories.
• Provided behavioral/emotional support and supervision for those with dementia and Alzheimer's.
• Chronic patient care in med-surg unit, adeptly handling all aspects of treatment from medication to wound care to monitoring for up to eight patients per shift.
• Assisted patients with bathing, dressing, feeding, lifting and transferring.
• Ensured safety and well-being of patients.
• Assisted doctors with bedside procedures.
• Continually improved knowledge, skills and performance based on feedback and self-identified professional developmental needs.
• Provided compassionate end of life care to hospital based hospice care patients.