Compassionate NICU Nurse with comprehensive experience caring for premature, medically fragile, and high-acuity neonatal populations. Demonstrates strong clinical judgment, early-recognition skills, and the ability to coordinate complex care plans in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. Experienced in team lead responsibilities, high-risk deliveries, and specialized NICU procedures. Devoted to delivering family-centered, developmentally appropriate care while promoting a positive, safe, and efficient unit environment.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Registered Nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care
Riverside Community Hospital
07.2022 - Current
Provide comprehensive care to a full spectrum of NICU patients, including extreme prematurity, late-preterm infants, grower–feeders, sepsis evaluations, and respiratory distress- utilizing respiratory support modalities such as BCPAP, HFNC, mechanical ventilation and HFOV.
Perform thorough admission and ongoing assessments, identifying subtle clinical changes and updating the plan of care in collaboration with the medical team.
Apply strong critical thinking and early-recognition skills to anticipate patient needs, escalate care appropriately, and intervene with evidence-based neonatal practices.
Collaborate with neonatologists, , RT, lactation consultants, social work, speech/occupational therapists, and other interdisciplinary partners to develop, implement, and modify individualized patient care plans.
Act as a family advocate, delivering developmentally supportive care, guiding parent involvement, and providing education throughout hospitalization.
Review, transcribe, and execute provider orders accurately while prioritizing STAT interventions to ensure timely care.
Coordinate safe and efficient patient transfers, discharges, and transitions of care, communicating effectively with families and receiving departments.
Team Lead capable RN: Oversee unit operations, manage assignments, anticipate staffing needs, maintain safe workflow, facilitate communication, and de-escalate concerns involving staff, parents, or patients.
High-Risk Delivery RN: Attend deliveries requiring NICU presence; provide immediate neonatal stabilization, respiratory support, and safe transport to the NICU in accordance with NRP when indicated.
Transition trained RN: Attend routine newborn deliveries, complete initial assessments, provide thermoregulation and glucose screening, and facilitate breastfeeding before transferring infants to the maternal–infant unit.
Maternal Infant Unit trained RN: Provide/support parents ability to perform newborn care, complete assessments, provide parent education, and early identification of infants requiring escalation.
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