Elizabeth Luna-Evans

Board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with 700+ clinical hours across family medicine, pediatrics, geriatrics, and women's health, combined with 8+ years of nursing experience in Level IV, high-acuity mother-baby care. Proven ability to manage complex patient populations, coordinate interdisciplinary care, and lead clinical teams as a Charge Nurse. Strong clinical foundation in women's health, prenatal care, and newborn management.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, with a commitment to delivering culturally competent, evidence-based care in diverse communities. Relocating to the Boston, MA area in summer 2026.

Charge Nurse – Mother-Baby Unit – 20+ Bed Unit - The Hospitals of Providence - El Paso, TX

(2019-08)

• Manages mother-baby unit with out of staffing or 4:1 charge nurse ratio.
• Run daily operations for a 20+ bed mother baby unit, coordinating patient discharges, admissions, and transfers from Labor and Delivery to ensure safe patient and unit flow.
• Manage acuity-based assignments and work with management to adjust staffing in real-time, optimizing unit productivity in conjunction with ensuring assignments are fair and safe.
• Serve as liaison between nursing staff and leadership to ensure quality, safety, and compliance with clinical standards.
• Leading "damage control" and services recovery efforts, resolving patient concerns or complaints at once, escalating as necessary to keep high patient satisfaction scores.
• Supervise and support nursing staff, guiding clinical decision-making and patient care priorities.
• Communicates with management and other ancillary units (L&D and NICU) about staffing needs, bed capacity, and to streamline care in a high acuity, Level IV Women's facility.

Registered Nurse – Mother-Baby & Nursery/Transition - The Hospitals of Providence - El Paso, TX

(2017-06)

• Manage a high-productivity patient ratio of 8:1 (4 couplets), consistently delivering safe, high-quality care in a fast-paced environment.
• Provide comprehensive postpartum care for high-risk maternal patients following vaginal and cesarean deliveries in a Level IV setting (gestational diabetes, gestational hypertension, and pain management).
• Provides post-operative care for GYN patients ensuring proper pain management and recovery from hysterectomy procedures.
• Assess and stabilizing newborns during transition to extrauterine life. Coordinating MD communication for high-risk newborns and escalating proper transfer support to the NICU if necessary.
• Perform detailed maternal and newborn assessments, including fundal, lochia, full head-to-toe evaluations, and vital signs.
• Educate patients and families on postpartum recovery, postpartum expectations, lactation support, newborn care, and discharge planning.
• Identifies and intervenes in obstetric and neonatal emergencies with a quick and calm manner, to ensure patient safety.

Master of Science in Nursing - Family Nurse Practitioner - University of Texas at Arlington (2025-05)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing - BSN-RN - University of Texas at El Paso (2013-08)