Robye Cole

Most recently providing care for pregnant patients over 20 weeks/Postpartum patients up to 6 weeks for pregnancy related concerns in OB Emergency Department. Conduct thorough patient assessments and obtaining patient health history to identify changes in condition, promptly notifying physicians and initiating appropriate interventions when necessary.

• Communicating patient assessment to physicians
• Admitting, performing pre-op procedures frequently as a team under high levels of stress when every minute counts
• Communicating patient condition and plan of care with oncoming nurse or nurse assuming patient care
• Maintaining rapport with patient/family throughout admissions and discharges that can be scary, stressful or disappointing
• Difficult(often high-acuity) IV starts
• Obtain consent from patient

Labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and well newborn(couplet) care as the single RN on duty most of the time. Called in additional support RN to advocate deliveries. Scrub tech duties such as opening and setting up tables for vaginal deliveries.

Communicating with Physicians, RN's and hospital staff to ensure the safest delivery process in a rural hospital.

Labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and well newborn care. in rural facility. Responsible for all care and stabilizing and preparing high acuity pregnant women and newborns for transfers while maintaining their care until transport could transfer to a facility with a higher level of care.

Labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn care, as well as postop gynecological surgeries. Charge RN on nightshift. Made unit schedule as well as doing payroll using Kronos. Relief House Supervisor nightshift during inclement weather and as needed. Circulated Bilateral Tubal Ligations that were done in the postpartum phase at that time.