Tunika LaRodé

20 Labor Rooms, Approximately 100 births per month. Average 15-20 patients in clinic per day.

• Provide care and management of post-partum patients.
• Provide evidence based obstetrical care, triage evaluation and management of low- high risk labor patients, including delivery, requiring twenty-four-hour midwifery coverage.
• Maintain knowledge of Medicaid rules and regulations.
• Provide community resources or referrals to PT, and OT as needed.
• Review medical charts and ensure medical necessity was supported by documentation.
• Procedures perform include: speculum, bimanual exams and pap tests, circumcisions, repairs vaginal and perineal lacerations, IUD insertion.
• Reduce complications during labor and delivery by closely monitoring maternal and fetal health throughout pregnancy.
• Establish individualize care plans to meet specific health needs based on evidence-based standards
• Coordinate care with consulting physicians when necessary for high-risk pregnancies or complicated births.
• Improve birth outcomes by developing individualized birth plans that incorporated patient preferences and medical needs.
• Participate in continuous professional development opportunities to enhance clinical knowledge and skills.
• EPIC documentation.

• Dekalb Medical (05- 08/ 2017)
• Piedmont Rockdale (08- 11/ 2018)
• Northside Atlanta (08- 11/ 2021)
• Northside Gwinnett (01- 03/ 2022)

Approximately 6-7 students per 3 month clinical rotation.

• Supervised students when administering medications to maintain patient safety.
• Facilitated communication between students and clinical preceptors to address any concerns or issues that arose during rotations.
• Provided educational lectures and facilitated discussions on weekly basis.
• Facilitated students; critical thinking development through explanation, demonstration and observation while insuring student and patient safety
• Maintained a supportive learning environment, addressing individual student needs and concerns throughout the course.
• Assigned students to patients based on students' learning objectives and patient needs.

• Provided evidence based obstetrical care and management of low- risk labor patients, including delivery, requiring twenty-four-hour midwifery coverage.
• Provided gynecologic, prenatal, and postpartum care in a clinic setting serving adolescent through postmenopausal women
• Consulted with physician.
• Cerner and DrChrono documentation.

8 Labor Rooms, approximately 70 deliveries per month, average 15-20 patients in clinic per day.

• Provided care and management of post-partum patients, including post-operative patients.
• Provided evidence based obstetrical care, triage evaluation and management of normal/ high risk labor patients, including delivery, requiring twenty-four-hour midwifery coverage.
• Facilitated centering pregnancy sessions.
• First assisted during cesarean sections.
• Limited basic ultrasound evaluation skills.
• Performed a variety of gynecological services, including: annual well women exams, contraception counseling and management.
• Procedures performed include: Nexplanon and IUD insertion/removal, speculum, bimanual exams and pap tests, circumcisions, repairs vaginal and perineal lacerations.
• Coordinated care with consulting physicians when necessary for high-risk pregnancies or complicated births.
• EPIC documentation.

• Provided education support to mothers and families
• Made appropriate interventions for patients by reading and interpreting fetal and maternal monitoring equipment
• Assisted physicians during delivery, treatment, and examinations
• Provided skilled, timely and level-headed emergency requiring pre, intra, and post-operative care of patients undergoing cesarean section
• Ensured comprehensive care to patients of term and pre-term gestations
• Conducted ongoing monitoring and evaluation of patient’s cervix to determine labor progression and dilation
• Cerner documentation.