* Fetal monitor interpretation: Over 20,000 clinical hours of fetal monitoring, both internal and external monitors
* Strong skills in the following :
* Knowledge of standards of care
* Nursing care of the laboring patient
* Understanding and use of medications in the laboring patient
* Preparing patients for C/S delivery
* Operating Room duties during C/S, including excellent skills in functioning as scrub nurse and circulating for Cesarean section delivery, bilateral tubal ligation, dilatation and curettage, hysterectomy
* Nursing care of the high risk ante-partum patient
* Nursing care of the patient during the post partum period
* Nursing care of the patient in Post Anesthesia Recovery Room
Initial nursing assessment of newborn, Apgar scores, obtaining fetal blood gas samples for interpretation. 1987-88 Functioned as scrub nurse and circulating nurse for general, gynecology, and ophthalmology, orthopedic and neurological surgical cases. 1886-87 Functioned as scrub nurse and circulating nurse for general, gynecology, and ENT surgery. Labor and Delivery, high risk antepartum, post partum, 16+ years experience in level 3 hospital in Texas; remains clinically active there labor delivery childbirth child-birth chid birth high risk antepartum antepartum post partum nursing
1987-88
Operating Room
Functioned as scrub nurse and circulating nurse for general, gynecology, and ophthalmology, orthopedic and neurological surgical cases.
Operating Room
1886-87 Functioned as scrub nurse and circulating nurse for general, gynecology, and ENT surgery.
Labor and Delivery, high risk antepartum, post partum, 16+ years experience in level 3 hospital in Texas; remains clinically active there
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Accreditations AAP Neonatal resuscitation Certification, 16 hours class time initially; continuing re-certification every 3 years
American Heart Association CPR Certification; continuing re-certification every 2 years
Professional Certification
· National certification in Electronic Fetal Monitoring, issued April, 2004 by the National Certification Corporation for the obstetric, gynecologic and neonatal nursing specialties (NCC) |
* National Certification for Inpatient Obstetrics issued in December, 1993 by NCC
* Licensure with State Board of Nurse Examiners for Texas, March, 1984
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Education
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| 1983 University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
BS Nursing
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Professional memberships
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| Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrical, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants
AALNC-Dallas Chapter
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Fee Schedule
Record review: $175.00 per hour
Deposition testimony: $275.00 per hour
Trial testimony: $275.00 per hour, 4 hour minimum
Please include a retainer for 4 hours record review ($750.00) when sending records.
