Nicole Creighton

• Administers medications accurately and safely, reducing medication errors and adverse reactions during pain procedures.
• Enhanced patient satisfaction through effective communication, empathy, and timely response to their needs.
• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams for comprehensive patient care plans, resulting in better health outcomes.

• Primary role as a circulator for GI, plastics, and general surgery.

• Coordinating unit staffing and providing leadership while implementing clinical objectives and quality patient care in labor & delivery, postpartum and special care nursery
• Perform unit audits per system standards
• Facilitate nursing schedules and PTO requests
• Respond to complaints about patient care and manage through established channels
• Work closely with physicians and administration to ensure patient safety when staffing concerns arise
• Lead nurse education and training for newly opened special care nursery
• Including the roles and experience listed below as an LDRPN RN

• Providing nursing care for labor, delivery, newborn, and postpartum patients
• Work collaboratively with other medical professionals to provide the best care possible
• Monitor fetal heart rate and contraction patterns in labor patients
• Circulate for c-sections
• Provide care to pre-, intra-, and post-operative patients
• Experienced in performing time-sensitive procedures for both mothers and newborns
• Educate and assist mothers with breastfeeding, as well as postpartum and baby care
• Perform charge nurse duties such as: distributing patient assignments, scheduling procedures, acting as a resource for staff, and completing shift tasks, i.e., narcotic counts and code cart checks as needed

• Provide family-centered care to pre-term, term, and high-risk infants with chronic, acute, and critical health conditions
• Utilize critical thinking and expert clinical skills to assess and evaluate the care of the newborn
• Monitor vital signs and initiate corrective action whenever the infant displays adverse symptomatology and effectively communicate infants’ condition to the neonatologist
• Assess and care for infants requiring advanced life supportive therapies including HFOV, nitric oxide therapy and therapeutic hypothermia
• Provide care for infants requiring respiratory support including ventilator, Bubble CPAP, high and low-flow nasal cannulas
• Manage infants experiencing withdrawal symptoms using pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions
• Assist physician during bedside interventions such as intubation and central line insertion
• Experienced charge nurse attending high-risk deliveries, distributing patient assignments, addressing patient/family concerns, and acting as a resource for staff