Registered Nurse, Conscious Sedation

• Jun 2022 - Present

Labor and Delivery Nurse

• Nov 2021 - Jun 2022

Exercised critical thinking skills to care for parents and infants in a constantly changing healthcare environment with limited resources. Focus on providing safe, patient centered care and empowering mothers to deliver according to their birth plans whenever possible while maintaining safe patient care standards.

Neonatal Intensive Care Nurse

• Sep 2020 - Nov 2021

Provided interdisciplinary nursing care in 24 bed, Level-III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to neonates and their families. Compassionately cared for infants as young as 22 weeks with various genetic, metabolic, and developmental findings outside expected limits, with extensive support and education provided to parents.

Charge Nurse

• Nov 2018 - Oct 2020

Charge nurse and staff nurse on a 22 bed adult medical surgical unit, servicing patients from age 18 to end of life for a wide variety of medical and psychological admission diagnoses. Supervised 4-5 registered nurses and 4-5 hospital corpsman (the Navy term for a nursing assistant) and coordinated patient admissions, discharges, and transfers with the nursing bed manager for the hospital. Attended interdisciplinary care meetings and advocated for staff nurse and patient needs. Privileged to precept two new graduate nurses to the unit, ensuring competency in technical skill and critical thinking. Functioned as an advocate and resource for new graduate nurses in their daily rounds with patients and physicians. Worked with the Comprehensive Unit Safety Program to institute safe medication rounding practices, including visual representation that staff members are in the midst of administering medication and cultural change management practices to help support this safety improvement initiative. Worked with the nursing informatics team as a User Role Assignment Coordinator during the Military Health System Genesis roll out, communicating with members of the command executive suite and coordinating training for each user role assignment. Show less

Registered Nurse on USNS Mercy

• Mar 2020 - May 2020

Awarded Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for professional achievement as a staff nurse. Collaborated with policy and practice team to create standardized admission order sets which reduced the potential for error and streamlined paper order transcription. Provided training on nursing charting principles to 53 registered nurses and 89 hospital corpsman that ensured accurate documentation of care.