Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse (RN) - Travel
Job Summary
Join our dedicated Family Birth Place Team as a Travel Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse at a leading regional hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. This dynamic role involves providing comprehensive care across the full spectrum of obstetrics, including Labor & Delivery, Operating Room (for C-sections), Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU), and Postpartum units.
You will be an integral part of a compassionate team committed to evidence-based care, focusing on both maternal and neonatal health. The unit manages approximately 60 deliveries per month, with projections to increase to 80+ monthly, requiring skilled professionals ready to contribute to a growing service line. This position emphasizes couplet care for mothers and neonates from 32 weeks gestation and up.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert nursing care to laboring, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients.
- Manage and assist with deliveries, including circulating and recovering patients in the OR and PACU for obstetric procedures.
- Deliver comprehensive couplet care, ensuring the well-being of both mother and neonate (32 weeks gestation and older).
- Perform thorough patient assessments, develop individualized care plans, and implement nursing interventions.
- Monitor fetal heart rates, maternal vital signs, and progress of labor, escalating concerns as appropriate.
- Administer medications, manage pain, and provide patient education on childbirth, postpartum recovery, and newborn care.
- Collaborate effectively with physicians, midwives, anesthesiologists, and other healthcare professionals.
- Assume Charge Nurse responsibilities, overseeing unit operations and guiding staff as needed.
- Maintain accurate and timely documentation of all patient care activities.
Required Qualifications
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license.
- Minimum of 2 years of recent acute care Labor & Delivery experience.
- Prior RN Charge experience in a Labor & Delivery setting.
- Demonstrated experience in L&D, OR (for C-sections), PACU, and Postpartum care.
- Experience providing couplet care.
- Ability to care for neonates 32 weeks gestation and up.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills & Competencies
- Advanced clinical expertise in Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, and Neonatal care.
- Proficiency in obstetric surgical assisting and post-anesthesia recovery.
- Strong assessment, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills in high-acuity situations.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and patient education abilities.
- Ability to work effectively as a collaborative team member in a fast-paced environment.
- Commitment to compassionate, patient-centered care.
- Adherence to evidence-based practice guidelines and protocols.
Shift Details
- Shift Type: Night Shift (NOC)
- Shift Duration: 12 hours
- Days per Week: 3
- Schedule: Rotating weekends required.
- Call Requirements: Typically one 12-hour call shift every 6 weeks; subject to change based on unit needs.
- Contract Length: 13 weeks.
- Start Date: October 6, 2026.
Licensing Requirements
- Current Colorado Registered Nurse (RN) license or compact state license eligible to practice in Colorado.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (AHA).
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification (AHA).
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
- S.T.A.B.L.E. Program certification.
- Current Flu Vaccine (required by October 2026).