Maternity Nurse Resume Examples

Dedicated and professional Maternity Nurse with 11 years experience in labor and delivery settings. Exhibits innate compassion for mothers and babies and in-depth knowledge of pregnancy related complications and solutions. Highly capable of prioritizing multi-tasking and directing large staffs in delivering quality childbirth and labor experiences.

• Interpret vital signs and monitors to gauge labor progression and overall stability of patient and unborn child.
• Provide a calm reassuring presence during labor and delivery and instruct mothers on helpful breathing techniques.
• Prepare mothers and delivery room for birth including setting up trays and equipment and gowning physician in sterile covering.

• Assisted anesthesiologist with positioning of patient for epidural and comforted patient through procedure.
• Educated new mothers on lactation techniques and provided guidance during the feedings when needed.
• Administered medications to laboring mothers per physician orders and requisitioned additional prescriptions from physician.

• Conducted initial assessment of patient and unborn baby to determine labor progress and patient history.
• Properly documented and recorded patient and unborn baby conditions and relayed essential information to physician.
• Assigned nursing staff and aides to patients’ care and monitoring and intervened when higher levels of care were necessary.