Valerie L. Phillips' Resume (Last updated September 26th 2007)

"Working with people makes life a positive experience." To work in a positive work environment, working with people and educating them so they maintain good health and to continue my own professional education.

Duties include caring for high risk antepartum patients, postpartum patients, newborns in the nursery. Float to SCN and labor & delivery when needed. Preceptor for new employees to the unit. Preceptor for glucose monitors during yearly competencies. Charge nurse duties on a rotational basis. Work with nursing students during clinical days. Work closely with pediatricians in the care of newborns.

Duties include teaching students the care of postpartum patients and infants after delivery. Care of patients prior to delivery in offices and clinics. Responsible for grading required papers for the OB rotation and returning them with pass/fail grades. Responsible for evaluating students work during clinical days and passing/failing them on their clinical rotation.

Duties included caring for postpartum patients and working in the nursery with the newborns. Assisted in labor & delivery when needed.

Registered nurse in orthopaedics. Duties included caring for patients with total joint replacements, trauma patients with multiple bone injuries. Worked with home care coordinators and social services in planning discharges to home or extended care facilities. Precepted students from Monroe Community College in 1991 for management rotations. Oriented new employees to the unit.

Duties included team nursing with a registered nurse on the orthopaedic unit. Assisted with bathing patients, assisting patients to and from physical therapy, and assisted patients with activities of daily living.

Yearly Competencies: Updated yearly since 1989. CPR, lab draws using vacutainers, NRP, Dr. Stat situations, EKG monitoring, External Fetal Monitoring, Safety testing, Medication testing, and multiple yearly competencies.

Neonatal Resuscitation: January, 2006. St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. Renewed certification necessary for resuscitation of a newborn infant.

CPR: January, 2006. St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. Renewed certification every 2 years is necessary for resuscitation of children and adults.

External Fetal Monitoring Classes: June, 1993. St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center. Class required to work in Level III OB unit.

Community Nursing: Spring 1994. University of Detroit Mercy. Detroit, Michigan. Worked with families and individuals in the community that were in need of medical follow up and nursing visits. Assisted people in getting the help they needed through various community agencies.

• Developed plans of care for each family according to appropriate nursing diagnosis'.
  

• Developed working relationships with community agencies. eg. Abigail Pregnancy Services, WIC, Medical clinics, VNS.
  

EKG Monitoring Classes: 1991. St. Vincent Medical Center. Toledo, Ohio.

• Educated to read monitor strips on patients admitted needing EKG monitoring.

Team leader at work and in the community:

• Work with social services and outcomes managers on a daily basis to make sure patients have what they need prior to discharge.
  

• Work closely with JDRF in the Toledo office since 1991. Spend time during the year volunteering for this organization. Have organized a team for the Walk to Cure Diabetes for 9 years now to help raise money toward finding a cure.
  

Educating patients is very important, so they have the knowledge they need to care for themselves and their children.

Softball, Jogging, Children's literature, Horseback riding, and Photography

References available upon request.