Assignments: 1. Interim Nurse Manager, Labor and Delivery Stanford Lucile Packard Children's Hospital - Oct. 2018 – April. 2019 ~Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is a 361-bed, world renowned Children's hospital affiliated with Stanford Medical Center. Labor and Delivery has around 5000 births per year and is a referral center for high risk cardiac mothers and babies with complex needs. 2. Interim Assistant Nurse Manager, Maternal Child Services▪ Kaiser Santa Rosa - July - Sept. 2018 ~Kaiser Santa Rosa is a non-profit short term acute care facility with 173 beds total, 8 L&D beds with 24 postpartum beds and 2 dedicated L&D OR suites performing 1500 births per year. Returned here for second assignment. 3. Interim Nurse Manager, Labor and Delivery Kaiser San Leandro - Aug. 2017–May 2018 ~Kaiser San Leandro is a non-profit short term acute care facility with 216 beds total, 16 L&D beds with 3 L&D OR suites performing 3800 births per year. 4. Interim Nurse Manager, Maternal Child Services▪ Kaiser Santa Rosa - Feb.– Aug. 2017 ~Kaiser Santa Rosa is a non-profit short term acute care facility with 173 beds total, 8 L&D beds with 24 postpartum beds and 2 dedicated L&D OR suites performing 1500 births per year. 5. Interim Assistant Nurse Manager ▪ Kaiser Redwood City - August 2016– Feb 2017 ~Kaiser Redwood City is a non-profit short term acute care facility with 149 beds total, 7 L&D beds with 2 L&D OR suites performing 1900 births per year. 6. Interim Assistant Nurse Manager ▪ Kaiser Fresno- April - July 2018 & Kaiser Redwood City - August 2016– Feb 2017 ~Kaiser Fresno is a non-profit short term acute care facility with 169 beds total, 24 LDRP beds with 2 L&D OR suites performing 1200 births per year.All roles with similar responsibilities of front line operations, quality outcomes, regulatory compliance, process improvement, patient experience and staff engagement.

• Responsible for 42 FTEs providing comprehensive patient care services for Family Birth Center, Level 2 Nursery, and MOMS program. Service line delivered 675 babies in 2015. • Led teams to create improvement plans for HCHAPS patient and staff satisfaction scores. • Promoted shared governance using unit-based council, peer interview and peer evaluation models. • Led teams for process improvement projects including change-of-shift report, newborn screens and discharge planning. • Collaborated transition to EMR for newborn nursery, OB Triage, and MOMS program. • Initiated redesign of discharge process to involve inter-disciplinary group including physicians, nurses, social services, and car seat technicians. • Developed education plan for 2016 to include monthly drills, STABLE courses, NRP, annual skills day, Labor and SCN core training, Advanced EFM courses and other in-services as requested.• Supervised orientation for multiple nurses training to labor and postpartum care.• Research and budget preparation for purchasing of new equipment including infant warmers, wireless fetal monitors, and other newborn equipment. • Attended Oregon Perinatal Collaborative and began process to join Oregon Maternal Data Collaborative for Quality Benchmarking.• Collaborated with Chair of OB/GYN for Quality presentation to Board of Directors. • Financial focus on reduction of incremental and on-call related overtime led to process improvement projects around change of shift report practices and scheduling. • Preparation for The Joint Commission survey due early 2016. • Assisted with direct patient care as needed including triage, labor, delivery, postpartum, nursery, and lactation

Develop new Women and Infants service line including hiring nurses, coordination of training and scheduling, project management, and implementation of best practices. Manager of RN Coordinator team and clinical resource for sister facility. Implementation of Spirit of Women program. Position eliminated due to leadership restructure.

Charge nurse, providing care for Labor and Delivery, Newborn and Post Partum patients.

Travel nursing as Obstetrical nurse in Family Birth Center providing care for women in antepartum, labor and delivery, postpartum and newborns.

• Lead labor and delivery staff to deliver evidence-based care in a large tertiary unit with a high volume of both deliveries and high risk antepartum patients. • Represent nursing in a variety of settings from multidisciplinary committees with physicians to communication of their needs to administration.• Supervise ancillary staff, coordinate daily unit activities, oversee scheduling for all staff and work 50% of scheduled time in staffing as charge nurse. • Scrub and circulate for C-sections, D&Cs, cerclages and emergency hysterectomies. • Collaborate with other departments to initiate Family Centered Care model. • Perform customer service rounding and staff rounding to increase satisfaction.• Conflict management with staff, providers, patients and families.• Collaborate with providers to optimize outcomes. • Facilitate debriefings related to crisis events in L&D and around the system. • Participate in South Central PA emergency response drills. • Panel member for Dept. of Homeland Security Emergency Preparedness Conference• Participate in Studer Group initiatives and training.• Chair for Clinical managers group 2008-2010• Environment of Care Committee 2007-2008; Warming Practices Sub-committee• Presenter for New Horizons in Birth Conference 2011• Presenter for Harrisburg Women’s Forum 2009.

• Lead, coached and mentored to improve performance including annual performance reviews for approximately 80 staff members.• Worked with 2-3 other ACM’s to coordinate labor and delivery, postpartum, antepartum and triage staff to deliver care across the continuum for large tertiary center serving Anchorage and outlying villages in Alaska. Our Maternal Fetal medicine service brought patients from up to 14 travel hours away.• Supervised ancillary staff; coordinated daily unit activities; coordinated scheduling for all staff; adjusting staffing needs to acuity.• Scheduled all procedures including inductions, c-sections and outpatient procedures. • Collaborated with nurses and providers to seek optimal care for patients.• Worked as a staff nurse to provide patient care as staffing needs flexed. • Attended leadership training on a quarterly basis.

Provided care for high-risk antepartum patients.Participated in weekly rounding with Maternal Fetal Medicine doctors to ensure that all patients regardless of provider were receiving optimal care.Applied for management position in order to help facilitate change.

• Participated with approximately 16 other nurses to establish and open a brand new Family Birth Center. • Provided care to low-risk antepartum, labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn patents. Served as relief charge nurse when needed. • High risk resource for when patients became more complicated than routine low risk.• Scrubbed and circulated for c-sections, D&C’s and tubal ligations. • Preceptor for new employees, both experienced nurses and new graduates.• Bereavement coordinator for 2 years.• Taught Basics of Baby Care Class. • Served as unit representative on Quality Council. • Attended The Evergreen Lactation Educators course and assisted with lactation support.

• Directly out of nursing school, successfully completed a 3 month preceptorship in high risk obstetrics. • Provided care for high and low-risk antepartum, labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum and newborn patients in a high volume L&D unit. • Served as night shift charge nurse. • Scrubbed and circulated for c-sections, D&C’s and emergency hysterectomies.• Preceptor for new employees.

• Nurse Tech. in the Maternal-Child Float Pool in maternity, newborn nursery, NICU and antepartum.

• Nurse’s aide at Baylor Medical Center.