Experience

Keystone First

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Senior Complex Maternity Case Manager

  • Apr 2011 - Present



Saint Christophers Hospital for Children

• Registered Nurse

  • Jan 2011 - Apr 2011



Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children in

• Staff Nurse

  • Jan 2011 - Apr 2011

  Staff nurse responsible for the care of neonate in a 44-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Provide



Blanchfield Army Community Hospital

• Charge Staff Nurse

  • Oct 2009 - Dec 2010

  Staff nurse responsible for the care of mother during the labor and delivery process in a twelve-bed labor and delivery unit. Provide immediate care to the neonate after delivery and assist with breastfeeding. Ability to circulate in operating room during cesarean section and responsible for post-anesthesia care and recovery after both vaginal and cesarean section deliveries. Ability to triage both in person and on the phone partum patients. Shift charge leader over 25% of time, overseeing five to ten professional and paraprofessional personnel. Continued to perform scheduling duties for previous unit. Nominated and received funding to attend the CJ Reddy Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. Researched and published with references two standard operating procedures for unit to include family centered care and cord blood sampling.



US Army

• United States
• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• Charge Staff Nurse, Mother Baby Unit and Special Care Nursery

  • Aug 2008 - Oct 2009

  Staff nurse responsible for care of mother and newborn after initial recovery is completed for vaginal or cesarean section delivery in a twenty-bed mother baby unit. Responsible for Level I and Level II newborn care dealing with variety of complex diagnosis in a six-bed special care nursery. Assist with breastfeeding and bonding between mother and newborn. Initiate newborn and post partum patient teaching while providing a nurturing environment for the patient and family to ask questions. Shift charge leader over 75% of time, overseeing five to ten professional and paraprofessional personnel. Responsible for scheduling over twenty registered and six licensed practical nurses. Given a budget of two thousand dollars, co chaired a committee, which coordinated the 109th Army Nurse Corps birthday celebration in which over one hundred and fifty people attended from the area.



Medical Surgical Floor

• Charge Staff Nurse

  • Aug 2008 - Oct 2009

  Staff nurse responsible for care to variety of patients ranging from adolescence to geriatric with complex disease processes in a twenty-five bed medical surgical unit. Ability to administer chemotherapy agents, blood products and medications. Responsible for post recovery surgical patients by providing support in pain, ambulation, and hydration. Worked as an integral part within the interdisciplinary team to obtain optimum results for patients. Served as charge nurse for up to fifteen professional and paraprofessional personnel. Placed statistics into MILNOD database which uses the results for Army research and staffing. President of the Nursing Grand Rounds committee, which is responsible for producing one hour long monthly in-services which participants received one CEU. Nominated and named "best RN" by fellow employees on unit during Nurses Week 2007. Nominated and received funding to attend the 2007 American Medical Surgical Nurses Conference