Natasha Marcellin Parra

Organized and dependable candidate successful at managing multiple priorities with a positive attitude. Willingness to take on added responsibilities to meet team goals. Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. To seek and maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.

• Obtain patient history, documented data, and identified nursing patient care needs
• Provide full comprehensive assessment of infants including heart sounds, lungs sound, identification of hematomata, jaundice, caput succedaneum, seizure identification, pain assessment, hydration status.
• Provided care for infants with umbilical venous catheters, intra osseous catheters, peripheral catheters.
• Remove of umbilical venous catheters using sterile techniques
• Administer feeds via NG tube, gastrostomy tube/ button, orogastric tube, gavage feeding, breast feeding, and bottle feeding
• Assisted physicians in administering treatments and in performing medical examinations, diagnostic test such as Lumbar puncture, exchange blood transfusion, blood gas analysis, insertion of urethral and suprapubic catheters, chest tube insertions
• Administering and Monitoring 02 Therapy, Nasal cannula, hood, endotracheal tube
• Ventilation via anesthesia and Self-inflating bag & Mask
• Assist with intubation/extubation
• Provide care for infants with surgical wounds, extravasation, intravenous infiltration
• Collect specimen blood, stool, sputum, urine, eye, ear specimens ensuring correct labeling.
• Administer artificial surfactant
• Administration of medication including high risk medication via IV, IM, oral, per recta routes
• Administration of fluids on continuous IV pump
• Administration and manage blood and blood products
• Assessed term and pre-term babies
• Insert and maintenance NG/OG tubes
• Monitored fluid intake and output
• Basic EKG and dysrhythmia interpretation
• Promote developmental supportive care and kangaroo care
• Provide bereavement and postmortem care.
• Provide cord care
• Ability to implement palliative approach to care
• Assist mother in manual expression and storage of breast milk
• Teach mothers good breast-feeding techniques
• Maintain safety and security during all cares
• Collaborate with all members of the health care team to ensure effective and efficient patient care.
• Provide education and demonstration to families regarding infant's health care and precautions
• Conducted training and orientation for new nursing staff and students.
• Perform charge nurse responsibilities: supervision of new staff, creation or staff work schedule
• Preceptor for newly graduated nurses' education
• Basic X-ray interpretation
• Provides education to patient's family related to medical condition and infant care
• Excellent observation skills and ability to identify trends
• Incorporate critical thinking skills in all aspect of care
• Head of education committee

• 04/2018, Neonatal Nurse Specialty
• 06/2023, Neonatal Resuscitation
• 04/2023, Certified Lactation Counselor

• Preterm infants up to 24 weeks gestation, intra uterine grow restricted infants, term and post term infants
• Infants requiring mechanical ventilation via endo tracheal tube, non-mechanical ventilation, SiPap, Cpap, oxygen.
• Care of infant with: Hepatitis surface antigen+ mother, HIV positive mother, bacterial sepsis viral sepsis, infants requiring exchange transfusion, congenital anomalies, premature infants, acute renal failure, disseminated intra vascular coagulation, disorders of internal/external organs, drug addiction/withdrawal hypo/hyperkalemia, hypo/hypernatremia, malformations of the GU tract, bowel obstruction, cleft lip/palate, colostomy/ileostomy, esophageal atriesia, omphalocele, GI bleeding, inguinal hernia, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), pyloric stenosis, post abdominal surgery, bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), cardiogenic/hypovolemic shock, diaphragmatic hernia, tracheostomy, meconium aspiration, hyaline membrane disease, persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN), pneumothorax
• Care of the infants using Jehovah Witness protocol
• Manage infants in cardiopulmonary arrest

• Ventilators -
• Sipap machine - Care fusion
• O2 humidifiers
• Syringe and IV infusion pumps
• Advanced Phototherapy
• Advanced incubators
• Kangaroo complete care radiate warmers
• Neo-puff

Single state - Texas