Sumer J. Woodruff
Columbus
Summary
Dedicated labor and delivery nurse with over 7 years of experience at a Level III obstetric medical center, specializing in high-risk obstetrics. Expertise in managing complex diagnoses, combined with a strong commitment to evidence-based practice, ensures optimal patient care through ongoing education and certification. Proven leadership as a charge nurse and educator in electronic fetal monitoring has significantly enhanced team performance and improved patient outcomes. Committed to continuous learning and actively engaging with professional resources to maintain the highest standards of care.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
REGISTERED NURSE
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
02.2017 - Current
- Current Practice: Specialty in Labor & Delivery/ High Risk Obstetrics
- Assessing and treating extensive disease processes in pregnant and postpartum patients, focusing on conditions like diabetes, cardiac disease, cancer, pre-eclampsia, and disseminated intravascular coagulation.
- Teaching & precepting new nurses to labor and delivery, providing care in our obstetric emergency room, leading as a charge nurse, and volunteering to take the highest acuity patients
- Facilitating successful patient care during cesarean deliveries, contributing to improved outcomes in high-risk obstetrics. Enhanced palliative care for intrauterine fetal demise, supporting organ donation efforts.
- Serving as labor and delivery nurse representative for Columbus Ohio Adult Congenital Heart (COACH) Committee.
- Executing precise administration of high-risk medications, including insulin, oxytocin, and magnesium sulfate, to support effective treatment plans.
- Initiating blood transfusions and participate in massive transfusion protocols
JADA Representative
Organon
11.2024 - Current
- Provides updated current practice with use of JADA to company to include in case studies
- Facilitated current education for company to include at conferences countrywide
- Implemented evidence-based practice with own use of JADA to develop nursing guidelines and education
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
- Direct patient care
- Strong clinical judgment
Certification
- ACLS (Advanced Cardiac Life Support): 7/1/2021-Present
- BLS (Basic Life Support): Updated Quarterly @ OSU
- Clinical Ladder III: 4/1/2022
- Clinical Ladder IV: 7/1/23
- C-EFM (Electronic Fetal Monitoring): 10/26/18-Present
- CNPR (Certified National Pharmaceutical Representative): 12/2025
- RNC-IAP (Inpatient Antepartum Nursing): 4/22/22-Present
- RNC-OB (Inpatient Obstetric Nursing): 12/5/19-Present
Timeline
JADA Representative
Organon
11.2024 - Current
REGISTERED NURSE
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center
02.2017 - Current
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - NURSING
The University of Toledo
MASTER OF SCIENCE - TRANSLATIONAL PHARMACOLOGY
The Ohio State University
Specialty Organization
- AWHONN Member since June 2020
Awards
- Daisy Award nominee (2023, 2024, & 2025)
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