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RACHEL CAUDILL

Kettering

Summary

Compassionate, professional, certified neonatal intensive care nurse and IBCLC with 8 years of experience in a level III NICU. Delivers safe, diligent, and evidenced based care to patients. Skilled in providing care to critically ill patients, collaborating across teams, and communicating empathetically with families. Committed to meeting and going above and beyond Dayton Children's standards of care.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lactation Consultant

Kettering Health
10.2023 - Current
  • Provides compassionate, supportive care, guidance, and education to Mother's
  • Skilled in resolving breastfeeding complexities and difficulties in not only healthy term infants, but also in the preterm and ill patient population
  • Creates a nurturing environment for mothers, patients, and family members to help promote a successful breastfeeding journey.

Registered Nurse

Kettering Health
09.2016 - Current
  • Demonstrates excellent ability to assess, critically think, multitask, and act as patients advocate while providing medical and emotional support to patients and families.
  • Works cohesively with entire interdisciplinary team to create a personalized care plan for patients
  • Collaborated with physicians to quickly assess patients and deliver appropriate treatment while managing rapidly changing conditions.
  • Administered medications via oral, IV, and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.
  • Manages patients on high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV), inhaled nitric oxide (iNO), mechanical ventilation, noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV), Bubble CPAP, high flow, nasal cannula.
  • Able to administers care to induced hypothermia infants via cooling blanket for Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), meconium aspiration, extremely low birth weight (ELBW), congenital abnormalities, hypoglycemia, hyperbilirubinemia, sepsis/pneumonia, feeding intolerances, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), and withdrawal.
  • Provides physical comfort, and pain management while running intravenous infusions/drips, PICC lines, UVC/UAC lines, cardiac/pulse oximetry monitoring, and NG/OG tubes.
  • Assisted in the training and mentorship of new nursing staff members, contributing to a positive work environment and high-quality patient care.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Kettering College
Kettering, Ohio
07.2016

Skills

  • Eight years of experience in neonatal intensive care setting
  • EPIC, Teams, Outlook
  • Sound knowledge of medical terminology
  • Six plus years experience orienting new hires, and nursing students
  • Served as mock code team leader for 5 years
  • Lactation instruction & breastfeeding support
  • Emotional support for patients and parents

Accomplishments

Achieved certification in Neonatal Intensive Care. Received two daisy award nominations, in addition to employee of the month. Collaborated with a colleague on a Evidence Based Project related to human milk based fortified milk in the pre-term population.


Certification

  • Registered Nurse (RN) License
  • International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC)
  • RNC-NIC

Timeline

Lactation Consultant

Kettering Health
10.2023 - Current

Registered Nurse

Kettering Health
09.2016 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Nursing

Kettering College

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