Tracy Q Garrett RN

Provide exceptional care to premature/full term newborns in a Level 2b Special Care Nursery within the Tufts Medicine Network at a Baby-Friendly Designated Hospital. Stabilize newborn immediately after birth in collaboration with neonatologist and per NRP Guidelines.

• Stabilize and help maintain infant body temperature and blood glucose levels.
• Administered medications and treatment to sick infants and monitored responses while working with healthcare team to adjust plan of care
• Breastfeeding teaching and support per Baby Friendly Guidelines.
• Participates in discharge planning needs to ensure appropriate follow up and referrals.
• Guest speaker for LMH School of Nursing for their lab "The Opioid Crisis in Family Focused Nursing."

• Managed care from admission to discharge.
• Advocated for patients by communicating care preferences to practitioners, verifying interventions met treatment goals.
• Administered medications via oral, IV and intramuscular injections and monitored responses.

• Provided direct and individualized nursing care to inmates within the correctional facility.
• Collaborated with primary care providers and other health care providers to ensure continuity, timeliness and appropriateness of care to inmate patients.
• Promoted a therapeutic environment to ensure inmates are treated in a professional, ethical and tactful manner.

• Provided care to the elderly population in need of extended care.
• Advised patients and caregivers of proper wound management, discharge plan objectives, safe medication use and disease management.
• Administered medications and treatment to patients and monitored responses while working with healthcare teams to adjust care plans.