Registered Nurse Practitioner
Resume:
Mara Popescu, RN
**** ******* ***, ***. #*** • Berkeley, CA 94705 • 818-***-****
*******@********.***
EDUCATION
Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY
MS, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, to be awarded in February 2011
MS, Midwifery, to be awarded in October 2010
Sigma Theta Tau (Nursing Honor Society)
Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY
BS, Nursing, May 2009
Sigma Theta Tau (Nursing Honor Society)
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
BA, Integrative Biology, with High Honors, December 2007
Minor in Cultural Anthropology, with High Honors, December 2007
CLINICAL ROTATIONS
Bellevue Hospital and Gouverneur Clinic, New York, NY, May-August 2010
Midwifery Integration in Intrapartum, Postpartum and Breastfeeding Care,
Antepartum, Out-Patient Postpartum, and Well Woman Gynecology Care: Acted as a
student nurse midwife two 8 hour clinical days and two 12 hours hospital shifts per week. See
responsibilities and learning experience below.
Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY, January-May 2010
Intrapartum, Postpartum and Breastfeeding Care: Provide nurse-midwifery care
during intrapartum, postpartum and breastfeeding rotations for Medicaid patients in a large, high-
volume city hospital. Responsibilities included triaging patients, conducting history and physical,
providing labor support, delivery babies, 1st and 2nd degree laceration repairs, assisting the MD
and CNM in cesarean sections, immediate newborn assessment and care, as well as conducting
postpartum rounds and attending to the medical and social needs of patients and their families.
Gouverneur Clinic, New York, NY, September-December 2009
Antepartum, Out-Patient Postpartum, and Well Woman Gynecology Care:
Responsible for 8-10 patients daily under the guidance of a midwifery preceptor. Provide routine
prenatal, 2- and 6-week postpartum care and woman gynecology care for a predominantly
Spanish Medicaid population in a high volume clinical practice. Perform complete histories and
well-woman physical exams, health screenings, order and evaluate diagnostic tests, IUD
insertions, counsel on family planning and menopausal care.
Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY, March-May 2009
Nursing Integration in Labor and Delivery: Acted as a student staff-nurse and
provided direct patient care on a labor and delivery floor for 9 weeks, 36 hour per week under
the guidance of a nurse preceptor.
Mara Popescu, RN
2740 College Ave, Apt. #202 • Berkeley, CA 94705 • 818-***-****
*******@********.***
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Doula, Bellevue Hospital, New York, NY, October 2008-January 2010
Provide doula services at no cost to Bellevue Hospital patients on both the labor
and delivery floor and in the birthing center.
Doula, Alta Bates Hospital, Berkeley, CA, July 2007-March 2008
Providing emotional and physical support to low income immigrant women during labor
and delivery.
LICENSURE / CERTIFICATIONS / SKILLS
Registered Nurse New York State and California State
American College of Nurse Midwives Board Certified
Neonatal Resuscitation Program
AWHONN Fetal Heart Monitoring
Certified Adult, Child and Infant CPR, Basic Cardiac Life Support
DONA-trained labor doula
Languages: Fluent – Romanian and Spanish
Proficient – French
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) National, September 2009-Present
ACNM Region II, Chapter I: New York City, March 2009-Present
New York State Association of Licensed Midwives (NYSALM), September 2009-Present
National Assoc of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH), November 2009-Present
PUBLICATIONS
Lieberman H., Manko A, & Popescu M. “Tuberculosis Screening in Pregnancy”
Submitted to the Journal for Midwifery and Women’s Health on March 20, 2010
INTERESTS
Childbirth, nature, traveling, cultures, snorkeling, reading, foreign movies, Romanian
folk music
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Enthusiastic and passionate about midwifery and women’s health care, friendly persona,
trilingual, compassionate and grounded
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