Tammy Cheek

Experience

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  Bon Secours Memorial Reg Med

  Jan 2000 - Dec 2008

  Registered Nurse

  Held staff nurse position in a 24 bed adult critical care unit, trained in immediate postoperative recovery of cardiac surgery patients, care of those who were post cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cardiac catheterization, requiring Intraaortic Balloon Pump therapy, continuous veno-venous hemofiltration, those with tracheostomies, multiple invasive lines (including pulmonary artery catheters), multiple vasopressors, and ventilatory support. Included management of transcutaneous and transthoracic pacemakers and some ventriculostomies. Also served as charge nurse at times and as preceptor for new hires. Volunteered on Professional Nursing Council for Nursing Congress. Show less

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  Bon Secours Health System

  Dec 2008 - Mar 2022

  Registered Nurse, Neonatal Intensive Care certified

  Permanent weekend night shift charge nurse in a 21 bed level IIIB neonatal intensive care unit. Attend deliveries and manage care of critically ill infants born at age of viability through term, those requiring thermal regulation, glucose control, titration of vasopressors, multiple modalities of ventilatory support including high frequency jets and oscillators, inhaled nitric oxide, tracheostomies, those needing hypothermic treatment of HIE, ventricular reservoirs/VP shunts, chest tubes, surgical interventions (including PDA ligation, surgical drains, silos, etc.) and continuous monitoring of amplitude integrated EEG. Trained in insertion and maintenance of peripherally inserted central venous lines. Serve as resource/preceptor to new colleagues. Integrate family-centered developmental care with above technical skills to afford families a holistic, full-circle, involved experience in the NICU. As charge nurse, am responsible for ensuring adequate staffing according to patient acuity, coordinating patient transport from outlying facilities, collaboration/progression of care for deteriorating infants in well-baby nursery, participating in quality improvement initiatives, and increasing productivity in unit on budgetary level. Enjoy volunteering as a peer reviewer for professional journal, Advances in Neonatal Care, critiquing as-yet unpublished articles of original research, case studies, and quality improvement projects. Serve as communication liaison between unit and Virginia state chapter of March of Dimes, and as fundraising lead and team captain for the yearly March for Babies. Also serve as transport nurse for sick/pre-term infants requiring higher level of care; proficient in intubation and umbilical line placement, resuscitation and stabilization of these babies for ground transport.Hospital-based Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) instructor. Show less

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  Pediatrix Medical Group

  Oct 2021 - now

  Neonatology Nurse Practitioner