Labor and Delivery or Postpartum Registered Nurse - Contract

Support within the Department: CNA: Duties: Yes - assist with VS, Glucose Checks, baths, feeding, ambulating patients, assisting turning patients, hourly rounding, transporting patients as needed (Hospital has designated Transport Team); obtain blood from blood bank. Required License, National Certification, Certs (BLS, ACLS, etc.) , or other position specific requirements such as Driver's License and/or Insurance: BLS (Basic Life Support) required.

Title: RN - Labor & Delivery/Postpartum

Location: Macon Georgia 31201

Duration: 13 Weeks

Shift: 12hr Day Shift - 36

Shift Information: 7a-p

Clinical Interviewing- Yes - Manager Approval to Offer

On Call, Call Back Requirements: 12 hour shift every 6 weeks

Weekend Rotation: 5-6 shifts on a 6 week schedule (5-6 out of 12)

Holiday Requirements: must work one day of each major holiday- either 11/26 or 11/27 AND 12/24 or 12/25 AND 12/31 or 1/1

Floating Requirements: float between Mother Baby, Antepartum and L&D

About Facility:

• 637 licensed beds
• Level 1 Trauma Designation
• Teaching Hospital
• Chest Pain Center
• Stroke Center

Unit Information: Beds: 2

Minimum Years of Experience required: 2 years Postpartum RN experience

• Will you accept a first-time traveler: Yes

Patient Types/Common Diagnoses: Vaginal and C-section deliveries, at time overflow hysterectomies but not often

Patient Ratios:

• RN: 1:3-4 couplets
• CNA: 2-3 per shift

Required License, National Certification, Certs (BLS, ACLS, etc.), or other position specific requirements such as Driver's License and/or Insurance:

• BLS (Basic Life Support) required
• BCR (Basic Cardiac Rythm) required - meaning traveler will be required to pass an EKG competency exam as part of Compliance
• ACLS
• NRP
• Fetal Monitoring

Skills required:

• Strong clinical assessment and Mother Baby skills for Level 1 Trauma Hospital
• IV insertion and care, central line management
• Care coordination with interdisciplinary teams

Support within the Department:

• CNA: Duties: Yes - assist with VS, Glucose Checks, baths, feeding, ambulating patients, assisting turning patients, hourly rounding, transporting patients as needed (Hospital has designated Transport Team); obtain blood from blood bank
• Receptionist/HUC: Unit secretary on unit 7a-11p; then house wide call secretary 11p-7a
• Charge nurse may have patients
• Phlebotomy: Most units are lab collect phlebotomy; nurses drawn from CVLs
• IV/VAT Team: Not an IV team - do have a PICC team
• Resource Nurse: Yes, we have discharge nurses, resource team floats to all units
• RT 24/7: yes
• Hospitalist 24/7: yes
• Intensivist 24/7: yes
• Telemetry monitoring/tech: Central Telemetry Unit

Technology/Equipment:

• EMR: EPIC
• IV Pump: Alaris
• Med dispensing: Pyxis
• Monitors: Phillips

Unit specific equipment:

• VS3 vital sign monitors, Nova Glucose Stat Strips Cardiac Telemetry monitoring
• Portable vital signs monitors (Dynamapp)
• PCA pain management
• Bladder scanners, IV pump, portable oxygen system
• Glucommander
• Suction machine
• Use of admission/ discharge protocol for rapid turnover

Floating: All adult med surg / telemetry units in house

Orientation (facility and unit):

• 1 day orientation with work on educational modules
• 2 days departmental

Other notes:

• Scrub Color: L&D surgical green w/ scrub exchange system
• Parking: Free: Have free parking around campus or can pay to park in parking decks
• Unit Culture: busy but work as team

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