Simone Knight, RN, BSN, IBCLC

• Perform comprehensive lactation assessments for breastfeeding dyads in postpartum NICU and OBED settings.
• Provide patient and family education on breastfeeding fundamentals and infant feeding cues.
• Initiate inpatient pumping support, including technique education and flange sizing assessments.
• Provided targeted interventions for latch challenges using nipple shields for mothers with flat/ inverted nipples or breastfeeding transition difficulties.
• Educate families on paced bottle feeding to maintain safe feeding practices and continuity in breastfeeding.

• Coordinated postpartum care for both cesarean and vaginal delivery patients.
• Managed treatment strategies for gynecological surgical and nonsurgical patients.
• Monitored vital signs, administered medications, and educated postpartum families on breastfeeding techniques.
• Assessment of newborns for health issues such as jaundice, low blood sugar levels, and birth abnormalities.
• Educate parents about various infant care methods, such as diapering, bathing, feeding, and swaddling.
• Created individualized care strategies addressing specific needs identified during assessments.
• Monitored patient behaviors, assessed their conditions and provided updates to doctors based on observations.

• Performing the duties of relief charge nurse when needed, including communication with the house supervisor, patient assignments, and being a resource for colleagues.
• Care management of the post-cesarean section patient, normal vaginal delivery, and gynecology surgical/nonsurgical patient.
• Provide postpartum care to mothers and babies, including monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and educating patients on breastfeeding techniques.
• Assess newborns for health issues such as jaundice, low blood sugar levels, and birth abnormalities.
• Teach parents infant care techniques, such as diapering, bathing, feeding, and swaddling.
• Provide patient-centered plans of care based on assessment findings and individualized needs of the mother-baby dyad.
• Assessment of patient conditions, monitored behaviors, and updating the doctor with observations and concerns.

• Provided labor and delivery nursing care in diverse acute care hospital settings as a travel RN, adapting to varying unit protocols while supporting intrapartum management and maternal-newborn transitions.

• Provided care for laboring patients in an acute care obstetric setting, including fetal monitoring, labor support, medication administration and assistance with vaginal and cesarean deliveries in collaboration with the OB teams.

• Coordinate, implement and evaluate Department of Defense Clinical Research Studies.
• Lead coordinator for the MTP (Massive Transfusion Protocol) and sTBI (Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries) Studies.

• Managed/implemented care for patients within the Silicon Valley Joint Replacement program.

• Provided a continuum of care beginning with admission and ending with discharge for trauma, orthopedics and medical patients.

• Implemented/ managed patient care for gynecology, plastics, urology post-op patients and general medical patients.

Fertility Clinic RN (Emory Reproductive Center, 5/2020-5/2021

Assisted with reproductive procedures in a fertility clinic setting, including patient preparation, intra-procedure support, and post-procedure recovery and monitoring

Newborn Night Nurse (In home care) 3/2023-3/2024

Provided overnight in home newborn care, supporting infant feeding, parental education and early infant adaptation in the home setting.

PRN OB/L&D RN-Baby-Friendly

(Washington Hospital) 4/2019-09/2019

Provided PRN labor and delivery nursing care in a Baby-Friendly designated hospital, supporting evidence-based maternal newborn care and breastfeeding initiation.