Job Title
Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse
Job Summary
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse to join a rural community hospital in Kealakekua, Hawaii. This role is integral to providing comprehensive care to expectant mothers, newborns, and postpartum patients in a supportive environment.
The successful candidate will manage laboring patients, assist with deliveries, provide immediate postpartum care, and perform neonatal care within the nursery, emphasizing couplet care. The unit averages 45-50 deliveries per month, offering a consistent yet manageable patient volume.
This position requires proficiency in intermediate to advanced fetal monitoring and the ability to work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team. While primarily focused on L&D, the role may involve floating to assist other departments, though not as a primary nurse.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive nursing care to laboring, delivering, and postpartum patients.
- Perform neonatal care in the nursery and facilitate couplet care, ensuring the well-being of both mother and infant.
- Monitor fetal well-being using intermediate or advanced fetal monitoring techniques.
- Assist physicians during labor, delivery, and immediate postpartum periods.
- Educate patients and families on newborn care, breastfeeding, and postpartum recovery.
- Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment for mothers and infants.
- Collaborate effectively with interdisciplinary healthcare team members.
- May assume charge nurse duties as assigned.
- Provide support to other departments as needed, without serving as a primary nurse.
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in Labor and Delivery nursing.
- Experience in Nursery care and Couplet Care.
- Proficiency in intermediate or advanced fetal monitoring.
Preferred Qualifications
Skills & Competencies
- Clinical Skills: Comprehensive labor and delivery management, postpartum care, neonatal assessment and care, couplet care, medication administration, IV insertion, emergency response.
- Equipment: Fetal monitors, infant warmers, resuscitation equipment.
- Soft Skills: Critical thinking, effective communication, empathy, teamwork, patient education, adaptability.
Shift Details
- Shift Type: Nights (NOC)
- Shift Duration: 8 hours
- Days per Week: 5 days per week
- Total Hours: Approximately 72-80 hours per bi-weekly pay period.
- Contract Length: 13 weeks
- Start Date: August 10, 2026
- Call Requirements: Not specified.
- Weekend Rotations: May include weekend shifts as part of a rotating schedule.
Licensing Requirements
- Current, unencumbered Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of Hawaii.