Sumer J. Woodruff
Columbus
Summary
Experienced labor and delivery nurse with over 7 years at a Level III obstetric medical center, specializing in high-risk obstetrics. Proficient in complex diagnoses and committed to evidence-based practice through ongoing education and certification. Demonstrated leadership as a charge nurse and educator in electronic fetal monitoring, enhancing team performance and patient outcomes. Dedicated to continuous learning and providing exceptional patient care through active engagement with professional resources.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
REGISTERED NURSE
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
Columbus
03.2017 - Current
- Company Overview: Specialty in Labor & Delivery/High Risk Obstetrics.
- Treat extensive amounts of disease processes through pregnant and postpartum patients (diabetes, cardiac disease, cancer, pre-eclampsia, disseminated intravascular coagulation, etc.)
- Teaching new nurses to labor and delivery, providing care in our obstetric emergency room, and volunteering to take the highest acuity patients
- Provide patient care in operating room for cesarean deliveries, through antepartum stages/ high-risk obstetrics, through fetuses not compatible with life/ intrauterine fetal demise (palliative care, organ donation, etc.)
- Being the labor and delivery nurse representative for our Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Heart (COACH) committee (helping those all on the interdisciplinary team come up with the best plan of delivery for these high risk patients)
- Administer high risk medications (insulin, oxytocin, magnesium sulfate, etc.)
- Initiate blood transfusions and participate in massive transfusion protocols
- Specialty in Labor & Delivery/High Risk Obstetrics.
Education
MASTER OF SCIENCE - TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH08.2021
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - NURSING
The University of Toledo
Toledo, OH12.2017
Skills
- Knowledgeable
- Organized
- Emotional intelligence
- Critical thinking
- Dependable
- Adaptable
- Compassionate
- Motivated
- Patient advocacy
Professional Qualities
- Communication with patients, doctors, residents, nurses, operating room staff, management, and administration
- Reviewing fetal heart rate tracings and providing intrauterine resuscitation as needed
- Providing care to high acuity patients at a Level III hospital
- Experience in high emergency situations
- Administration of drugs and blood / starting intravenous lines
- Working under pressure through maternal codes and perimortem cesarean deliveries
- Maintaining sterile fields in operating room or patient care areas
- Performing neonatal resuscitation
- Participate in monthly discussions with Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Health (COACH) & our OB team for our complex maternal cardiac patients
- Applying critical thinking in high acuity/complex situations
- Taking care of patients with sexual abuse or trauma
- Attending obstetric traumas consistently while working with anesthesia, pediatrics, and emergency room personnel
- Providing breastfeeding education and newborn care to postpartum families
- Staying up-to-date consistently on evidence based practices through AWHONN & ACOG
- Attending additional education, conferences, and classes to better my understanding of multiple obstetric topics
Specialty Organization
- AWHONN Member since June 2020
Certifications/ Professional Development
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), 07/01/21, Present
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Current, OSU every 3 months - Quarterly
- Clinical Ladder III, 04/01/22
- Clinical Ladder IV, 07/01/23
- Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM), 10/26/18, Current
- Inpatient Antepartum Nursing (RNC-IAP), 04/22/22, Current
- Inpatient Obstetric Nursing (RNC-OB), 12/05/19, Current
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), Current, OSU every 3 months - Quarterly
- SANE-A Trained, 2024
Awards
- Daisy Award nominee (2023, 2024, & 2025)
Timeline
REGISTERED NURSE
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
03.2017 - Current
MASTER OF SCIENCE - TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY
The Ohio State University
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - NURSING
The University of Toledo
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