Sara Read Email & Phone Number

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Consultant on issues related to inpatient perinatal nursing.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Provide nursing care in labor and delivery and postpartum/mother and baby on a unit with ten labor rooms and 23 postpartum rooms and an annual volume of approximately 1700 births. Care for women pre-op and post-op and as operating room circulator.Serve as charge nurse, making moment to moment staffing decisions and providing support and leadership to the.

Charlottesville, VA

• Clinical instructor for students on obstetric rotation.
• Clinical preceptor for masters-level Clinical Nurse Leader students on practicum rotation.

• Primary research nurse on a five-year NIH-funded RO1 study on screening for intimate partner violence during pregnancy using mobile health technology.
• Worked closely with the Associate Dean of Research (Principal Investigator) on all aspects of protocol implementation and data collection.
• Supervised a team of doctoral and undergraduate students to implement study protocol, and gather, analyze and store data.
• Coordinated with study team at Johns Hopkins University.
• Trained and supported home-visiting nurses at several locations around Virginia to implement screening and intervention phases of the study.
• Strictly organized and documented all steps taken during study to ensure adherence to protocol and ability to faithfully represent the implementation of the study in future publications.

Coordination of care for high risk pregnant women. Coordinate transition between prenatal, in-hospital and postpartum care.Streamline complex care plans involving multiple specialties.

• Provided nursing care in labor and delivery, antepartum, mother/baby, and newborn nursery.
• Cared for women pre-op and post-op and as operating room circulator.
• Provided high quality, family-centered care and patient teaching in a high-risk perinatal population. Communicated and coordinated care in an interdisciplinary milieu with families, physicians, social work.
• Acted as lead nurse on postpartum floor with up to five nurses and up to 35 patients.
• Designed and implemented a quality improvement project that reduced the separation time of mothers and babies post-cesarean-section from three hours to two. This project has led to continued improvements in the care of.
• Unit representative to nursing self-governance organization (PNSO) and Nursing Quality Committee.

Masters Of Science In Nursing, Clinical Nurse Leader

Ba, Women'S Studies