Qualifications

Experience

• Certified Nurse-Midwife & Certified Professional Midwife
  Baby’s 1st Day, Las Vegas, NV — 2008-Present

  Founder and president of Baby’s 1st Day, Midwifery Services. Attending sixty home births per year. Providing complete antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care.

• Certified Nurse-Midwife
  Deseret Women’s Health Care, Henderson, NV — 2005-2008

  Managing practice partner with collaborating OB/GYN, and physician assistant. Attended 240 hospital births per year. Cesarean first assistant in the operating room. Complete GYN care in office including family planning, menopausal management, and well woman care.

• Certified Nurse-Midwife
  Fremont Women’s Health Care, Las Vegas, NV — 2004-2005

  Worked with four collaborating physicians in a busy OB/GYN practice. Complete GYN care provided including family planning, birth control, annual exams, menopausal management, colposcopy, IUD placement, and fertility care.

• Student Nurse-Midwife
  Frontier University, Hyden, KY — 2002-2004

  Attended births in birthing centers, at home, and in the hospital. Attended 87 births as the primary midwife under supervision.

• Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery
  Sunrise Hospital, Las Vegas, NV — 2000-2004

  Provided care to high risk antepartum women, routine intrapartum care including circulating operating room nurse, neonatal intensive care experience, and postpartum couplet care. Electronic fetal monitor certified, advanced cardiovascular life support trained, and neonatal resuscitation certified.

Education

• Masters in Nursing
  Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH – 2004
• Masters in Midwifery
  Frontier School of Nurse-Midwifery, Hyden, KY – 2004
• Bachelors in Nursing
  University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV – 2000

Board Certifications

• American College of Nurse Midwives
  Board certified as a nurse-midwife since 2004
  Certification # 24678
• North American Registry of Midwives
  Board certified as a certified professional midwife since 2008
  Certification # 08030008

Licenses

Registered Nurse

• Arizona license # RN160290
• Nevada license # RN36201

Advanced Practice Nurse

• Arizona license # AP3487
• Nevada license # APN000807