Rachel AUTENRIEB

• Collaborated with interdisciplinary teams to develop individualized care plans.
• Conducted assessments and documented vital signs in electronic health records.
• Managed multiple tasks simultaneously while maintaining a high level of accuracy under stressful situations.
• Demonstrated excellent customer service skills while interacting with all levels of staff members and patients and families from diverse backgrounds.

• Monitored staff performance, providing coaching and formal counseling to enhance effectiveness.
• Received and investigated complaints from families and clinical staff, developing solutions for complex challenges.
• Applied clinical judgment to assist floor nurses with patient care decisions based on facility policies.
• Conducted personnel interviews, hiring, disciplinary actions, and dismissals to maintain team integrity.
• Developed policies and procedures to streamline workflow and improve patient outcomes.
• Coordinated staff schedules to ensure consistent nursing coverage at all times.

• Supported Nurse Manager with employee development and care quality management.
• Kept close eye on department operations to maintain coverage of needs.
• Oversaw nursing operations the Family Birth Center, delivering leadership, assistance and management for the staff.
• Monitored staff performance and provided coaching and formal counseling to staff.
• Received and investigated complaints from families, patients and clinical staff, devising solutions to multifaceted challenges.

• Conducted needs assessments to identify and fill staff knowledge gaps.
• Delivered industry-leading educational experiences by integrating theoretical knowledge, evidence-based principles and expertise in clinical nursing.
• Evaluated nurses to identify knowledge gaps and conduct thorough assessments.
• Created didactic training for new hires.

• Delivered quality patient care from admission to discharge in Labor and Delivery and newborns.
• Developed and maintained quality care systems and standards, including creating and improving medical protocols and guidelines.
• Reviewed and tracked progress of mothers in labor, interpreted fetal heart monitor and informed delivering physician of status.
• Monitored condition of newborns and directed postpartum care with special focus on premature babies and babies with abnormalities.

• Areas of work included Triage, Antepartum, Perinatal Specialty Care Unit (PSCU), labor and delivery, preoperative, intraoperative, postoperative, postpartum, and newborn care.
• Improved patient outcomes and quality of care by determining and suggesting changes to processes.
• Monitored and educated nursing students and externs on proper care procedures and prioritization strategies.
• Planned and spearheaded in-service educational programs including skin to skin in operating room and ways to minimize stress on newborn.
• Worked with management to identify and implement initiatives to increase nursing staff retention, morale and satisfaction.

• Provided clinical supervision of nursing students in the hospital setting as they interacted and worked with staff and patients.
• Ensured that the students are able to connect classroom learning with clinical lessons and give guidance as needed.
• Conducted formal student performance evaluations, as well as occasional informal feedback.
• Guided effectiveness of students' actions and decisions and encouragement for improvements.
• Partnered with other instructors to share best practices for optimized student learning.
• Communicated students' individual and group performance to lead faculty.
• Frequently provided educational lectures to students.
• Relayed feedback on clinical settings' effectiveness in enabling students reach course and program goals.

Travel Nurse Across America, Cirrus Medical Staffing, Medical Staffing Network

• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptation to diverse charting systems and procedures in minimal amount of time and with minimal orientation.
• Provided care to patients in all phases of the labor and delivery process including fetal monitoring, as well as couplet care.
• Worked alongside of the RN House Supervisor making decisions regarding the coordination of patient care and staffing needs.
• Precepted nursing students during their clinical rotations.
• Coordinated overall patient care with specialists, physicians and other departments, along with providing supervision to ancillary staff.

• Charge Nurse for over 3 years.
• Areas of work included triage, antepartum, circulating and scrubbing cesarean sections, labor and delivery, resuscitation nurse for newborns, and postpartum couplet care.
• Functioned in the role of a Labor and Delivery ground and air Transport RN, resuming care of patients from outlying hospitals and transporting them to a higher care facility. Including flight nurses and paramedics, during transport.
• Skills included evaluation of patients’ stability for transport, helping to deem them medically safe for transport, close communication with perinatologists regarding patient status, and care of the patient during the transportation process.
• Focused mainly on care of high acuity patients including ICU and trauma patients in the labor, delivery, and antepartum setting.
• Precepted new hires as well as nursing students.