New York, New York, United States
DNP Certified Nurse-Midwife. Action-oriented, team player with strong interpersonal skills and a passion for women’s health. Former teacher and non-profit worker trained in cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity. Passionate about working with disenfranchised communities and providing full spectrum antepartum, intrapartum, post partum and gynecological care through the life-span.
- Full-scope outpatient and inpatient midwifery within New York City’s largest safety net hospital system, New York City Health + Hospitals, with employment managed by NYU Langone. - Antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and emergency care for high and low-risk patients including MFM consultation and collaboration, when appropriate - Independently manages labor and birthing triage; admits, discharges and escalates to medical doctor as indicated. - Gynecologic procedures including Nexplanon and IUD insertions and removals, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and cesarean postpartum incision care. - Health education and counseling including induction management, miscarriage management, termination education, contraceptive counseling, breastfeeding support, and birth planning - Daily experience with non-English speaking patients providing care with the assistance of in-person, video, and phone interpreters, or using personal language skills - Teaching and supervision of medical students, midwifery students, and PA students
• Acts as a student advisor and mentor to 4 incoming Master’s Direct Entry Program students
• Leads review sessions for students • Grades and provides feedback on student assignments • Proctors exams
• Nursing Fundamentals – NYP Allen Hospital 2020 | General Medicine Surgery Unit • Psychiatric – NYP Westchester Behavioral Health Center 2020 | Inpatient Unit • Medical/Surgical – NYP Weill Cornell Medical Center 2020 | Surgical Step-down Unit • Pediatrics – NYP Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital 2021 | Pediatric Oncology Unit • OBGYN – NYP Lower Manhattan Hospital 2021 | L&D, Post-partum, & Well-baby units • OBGYN Clinical Integration – NYP Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital 2021 - Completed over 200 clinical hours alongside a nurse preceptor - Can independently draw umbilical cord gases, set up a baby warmer, set up a delivery table,measure QBL, help circulate in the OR, take baby vital signs, straight cath a patient, set up for an induction. - Strengthened critical thinking skills and utilized evidence-based resources to plan and provide high quality nursing care in the L&D and post-partum clinical settings - Provided culturally competent, patient-centered
• Developed grade-level curriculum in line with Next Generation Science Standards and Career and technical Education exploration • Collaborated with scientists and institutions of science to bring lab experiments, presentations, and science exploration into the classroom • Delivered community and culture-relevant • Educated and informed patients at Cherry Hill Detox Clinic in San Leandro, CA about the ED Bridge program
• Presented Honors research at the Honors Transfer Council of California Conference at UC, Irvine. The research titled, “Unnecessary Cesareans: The Use of Doulas and Midwives to Attenuate the Cesarean Rate in the Medical Industry,” explores the issue of increasing Cesarean sections as methods of delivery, the dangers of Cesarean sections, and the use of doulas and midwives as medical tools to help curve the rise of Cesarean deliveries.