Caroline Russo Bsn, Rn Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Care for the mother-baby dyad and support families in their transition to parenthood.
• Assess and provide interventions to vaginal deliveries, cesarean section deliveries, and their newborns.
• Educate families on newborn basics care and post-delivery care.
• Provide breastfeeding support and breastfeeding education.
• Assist in emergency and high-risk situations such as postpartum hemorrhages, preeclampsia and magnesium administration, transfers of the infant to intensive care, and rapid responses or codes or the mother or infant.
• Perform nursing tasks such as medicating, assessing, documenting, providing patient-centered care, and other responsibilities that come from being a mother-baby nurse.

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Postpartum/Mother-Baby Unit
• Performed daily ancillary tasks such as vital signs, assisting mothers to the bathroom, emptying foleys, and aided in patient satisfaction by changing sheets, providing refreshments, and answering call bells.
• Performed all state required testing for newborns: ABR hearing screen, pulse oximetry CCHD testing, genetic blood spot testing, and serum bilirubin.
• Assisted nurses in performing newborn baths, newborn weights, transporting newborns to higher levels of care or testing, and other required laboratory testing for baby or mom.

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Medical-Surgical/Intensive Care Unit Float Pool
• Assisted the bedside nurse to ensure the safety of the patient or provide patient care under the supervision of the bedside nurse.
• Observed patient to prevent them from performing unintentional, harmful activities.
• Provided companionship for patients.

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Nursing Operations
• Co-managed the Bedside Buddy volunteer program.
• Compiled hospital data on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis into reports.
• Assisted House Supervisors on evening rounds.
• Entered and maintained staff schedules.
• Assisted the nurse educator schedule orientee courses, coordinate preceptor schedules, and maintain documentation for orientee completion.

Philadelphia, PA, US

• Medical Oncology/Infusion/Telemetry
• Performed daily ancillary tasks such as vital signs, point of care glucose testing, and weights.
• Assisted patients with bathing, ambulating, toileting, and other acts of daily care.
• Under the supervision of the nurse performed sterile procedures such as tracheotomy care, central line dressing changes, straight characterizations, and placement and removal of indwelling catheters.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Catalogued daily prescription deliveries of medication.
• Assisted patients over the phone and in person to fill prescriptions.
• Prepared prescriptions with tasks that included counting medication, labeling bottles, contacting insurance and providers, and selling the final product to the patient
• Assisted the head pharmacist during flu season to organize flu shots, maintain records offlu shots received by past patients, and processed prescriptions from flu shots given at fluclinics held by Rite Aid

Bachelor Of Science In Nursing: Five Year Three Co-Op, Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse

Program Graduate

Nursing Student: Clinical Experience

High School Diploma, General Studies