Kendra Gomez

BSN-prepared Registered Nurse with nearly two years of experience providing comprehensive women's health, maternal, postpartum, and newborn care in a high-volume Mother-Baby setting. Recognized with three DAISY Awards for compassionate patient advocacy, clinical excellence, and patient-centered care. Experienced in comprehensive clinical assessment, patient education, emotional support, lactation guidance, discharge planning, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Preceptor certified with demonstrated strength in mentoring nurses and nursing students. Seeking to transition into fertility, reproductive health, or outpatient women's health nursing where strong clinical, educational, and relationship-building skills can support patients throughout their reproductive care journey.

Mother-Baby Registered Nurse at The Woman's Hospital of Texas (2024-10 – Present)

• Deliver comprehensive, family-centered nursing care to 6–8 mother-newborn couplets per shift while maintaining safe, efficient, and individualized care.
• Perform thorough assessments of postpartum women and newborns, identify changes in condition, and communicate clinical concerns to the interdisciplinary care team to support timely intervention.
• Provide individualized patient education and emotional support related to postpartum recovery, medications, infant care, breastfeeding, discharge readiness, and continuity of care.
• Support women through significant reproductive and family transitions by providing compassionate communication, patient advocacy, reassurance, and culturally responsive education.
• Provide hands-on lactation and breastfeeding guidance, adapting education to individual patient needs and reinforcing confidence with feeding and newborn-care goals.
• Coordinate care with physicians, advanced practice providers, lactation professionals, and other members of the healthcare team to promote safe transitions and positive patient outcomes.
• Prepare patients and families for discharge through assessment of learning needs, reinforcement of care plans, safety education, and coordination of follow-up needs.
• Serve as a preceptor for new nurses and nursing students, providing clinical mentorship, feedback, skills development, and support in transitioning into professional practice.
• Maintain preceptor certification in Mother-Baby nursing and contribute to development of confident, competent, patient-centered nurses.
• Recognized with three DAISY Awards for compassionate care, patient advocacy, professionalism, and excellence in nursing practice.

Bachelor of Science in Nursing in Nursing – Prairie View A&M; University College of Nursing (2024)