Dedicated Labor and Delivery Nurse with 9+ years of experience. Successful at providing fast and accurate assessments and working calmly under pressure. Highly skilled in delivering direct patient care, actualizing individualized treatment plans and helping patients meet their labor and delivery goals.
• Antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum.
• Evaluating needs upon admission, while assessing for risk factors.
• Supporting physicians during labor, delivery, examinations, operative and surgical procedures.
• Circulating in the operating room, and guiding patients through their recovery and postpartum period. •Performing neonatal nursing care and resuscitation after delivery and transition.
• Managing patients' pain with encouraging communication, positioning, counter pressure and breathing techniques.
• Setting up epidural's and PCEA for patients upon their request.
• Monitoring fetal heart rate (FHR) and providing intrauterine resuscitation measures when necessary, monitoring labor stages, placing FSE.
• Starting and managing patients on magnesium
• Postpartum hemorrhage, dilation and curettage, prolapsed cords, placental abruption, uterine ruptures.
• Delivered 150-200 deliveries a month at a level III labor and delivery unit with level IV NICU.