Pamela Hale
Pensacola,USA
Summary
Experienced healthcare professional skilled in patient care, critical thinking, and communication. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving optimal patient outcomes. Reliable and adaptable, ensuring efficient and compassionate care in dynamic environments. Equipped with expertise in medical procedures, patient assessments, and care coordination.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse
Baptist Hospital
10.2019 - Current
- Provided comprehensive prenatal and postnatal care for mothers, ensuring optimal health and safety during labor.
- Documented treatments delivered, medications and IVs administered, discharge instructions, and follow-up care.
- Maintained a safe and sterile environment, ensuring optimal conditions for successful deliveries.
- Assisted physicians in performing complex medical procedures, including cesarean sections and forceps deliveries.
- Facilitated smooth transitions between prenatal care, labor, delivery, postpartum care, ensuring continuity of care for patients.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualized birth plans tailored to patient needs.
- Educated expectant parents on labor processes, pain management options, and newborn care practices.
- Monitored fetal heart rates and maternal vital signs, accurately documenting changes in real-time reports.
- Provided emotional support and guidance to new mothers and families during labor, delivery and postpartum.
- Responded to emergency situations such as pre-eclampsia, early labor, and fetal distress.
- Assisted physician during delivery, examination and surgical procedures by anticipating needs, encouraging patient, and attending to baby after birth.
- Supported physicians in both planned and emergency Cesarean section procedures.
- Managed epidural analgesia infusions and monitored vital signs during labor and delivery.
- Aided with induction of labor for women suffering from complications such as preeclampsia.
- Administered medications accurately and safely under physician guidance during labor induction or augmentation processes.
Registered Nurse
Pensacola Pediatrics
10.2018 - Current
- Phone triage nurse for pediatric patients. Provide nurse phone triage, educate and assist patients, order labs and follow up on lab test, call in prescriptions and refills, obtain drug and medical supplement authorizations, maintain IV therapy qualification, obtain stat authorization/referrals, make appointments, administer shots, obtain lab specimens (blood culture, catheterized urine specimen, administer medication).
Registered Nurse
Baptist Hospital
11.2017 - 10.2018
- Nurse on Mother/Baby unit. Performed specific competencies as outlined by the department(s). Interacted with patients, families, physicians and other health team members while maintaining standards of professional nursing practice and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Identified opportunities for and contributed to the improvement of quality, safety and cost, as well as patient, customer, and employee satisfaction. Performed all other nursing duties as assigned.
Registered Nurse
Baptist Hospital
11.2016 - 11.2017
- Nurse on medical surgical/oncology unit. Performed specific competencies as outlined by the department(s). Interacted with patients, families, physicians and other health team members while maintaining standards of professional nursing practice and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Identified opportunities for and contributed to the improvement of quality, safety and cost, as well as patient, customer, and employee satisfaction. Performed all other nursing duties as assigned.
Nurse Manager
Sacred Heart Hospital
11.2015 - 11.2016
- Nurse Manager provides leadership with responsibility for planning, directing and evaluating the patient care and services provided for the high risk antepartum unit.
Assistant Patient Care Manager
Sacred Heart Hospital
09.2010 - 11.2015
- Nurse Manager provides leadership with responsibility for planning, directing and evaluating the patient care and services provided for the ante partum, postpartum, newborn nursery and gynecology unit.
Registered Nurse Coordinator
Sacred Heart Hospital
11.2008 - 10.2010
- Coordinate the ante partum, postpartum and gynecology units. Accountable for all staff who provide care services and activities related to patient care. Responsible for delegating, overseeing, and reviewing the work of the licensed practical nurse and other assistive personnel. Continually demonstrate sound judgment and leadership skills necessary to plan and direct the care of patients.
Registered Nurse
Sacred Heart Hospital
02.2005 - 11.2008
- Nurse on the gynecology unit. Performed specific competencies as outlined by the department(s). Interacted with patients, families, physicians and other health team members while maintaining standards of professional nursing practice and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Identified opportunities for and contributed to the improvement of quality, safety and cost, as well as patient, customer, and employee satisfaction. Performed all other nursing duties as assigned.
Education
Associate of Science - Registered Nurse
Pensacola State
Pensacola, FL08.2004
Skills
- Scheduling (9 years), Budgeting (2 years), Customer Service (20 years), Documentation (20 years), Hiring (5 years), Kronos (2 years), Management (6 years), Vital Signs (20 years)
- Medication and IV administration
- Medication administration
- Direct patient care
- Patient assessments
- Documentation and charting
- Patient education and counseling
- Clinical judgment
- Patient and family advocacy
- Patient monitoring
- Physical assessments
- Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) certification
- Taking vitals
- Performing EKGS
Accomplishments
- Surgical Preparation - Assisted in patient surgery preparation by administering proper medication, monitoring patients' conditions and charting abnormalities.
- Clinical Skills - Monitored patients' respiration activity, blood pressure and blood glucose levels in response to medical administration.
- Perinatal Care - Performed basic physical assessments of Ante-partum, labor patients, post-partum and newborns,
- First Assist Physicians in Cesarean Section Deliveries
Certification
- RN
- Expires: July 2026
- State: FL
- ACLS expires 8/2026
- BLS expires 8/2026
- NRP expires 10/2027
Timeline
Registered Nurse
Baptist Hospital
10.2019 - Current
Registered Nurse
Pensacola Pediatrics
10.2018 - Current
Registered Nurse
Baptist Hospital
11.2017 - 10.2018
Registered Nurse
Baptist Hospital
11.2016 - 11.2017
Nurse Manager
Sacred Heart Hospital
11.2015 - 11.2016
Assistant Patient Care Manager
Sacred Heart Hospital
09.2010 - 11.2015
Registered Nurse Coordinator
Sacred Heart Hospital
11.2008 - 10.2010
Registered Nurse
Sacred Heart Hospital
02.2005 - 11.2008
Associate of Science - Registered Nurse
Pensacola State
AWARDS
Nurse Manager of The Year, May 2014, Nurse Excellence Award, November 2008