Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Labor and Delivery for a travel nursing job in Los Angeles, California.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Labor and Delivery
- Discipline: RN
- Start Date: 11/08/2026
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift: 12 hours, days, nights
- Employment Type: Travel
Job Breakdown – Labor & Delivery (L&D) / Postpartum RN
1. Shift & Schedule
- Position: Registered Nurse (RN) – L&D / Postpartum / Perinatal
- Shift: Day shift
- Working Hours: 7:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Shift Duration: 12 hours
- Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours per week
- Schedule: 3 × 12-hour shifts per week
- Weekend Requirement: Every other weekend (EOW)
- On-Call: None
- Floating: Required — L&D nurses float to antepartum and postpartum.
- Orientation: 3 shifts on the unit
- Holiday Requirement: One major holiday and two minor holidays per assignment.
2. Unit Details
- Department: Labor & Delivery (L&D) / Postpartum / Perinatal
- L&D Beds: 12
- Triage Beds: 10
- Antepartum Beds: 12
- Births per Month: Approximately 200
- Facility: Described as the 13th-largest birth center in California.
- Care Setting: Acute care
- EMR: Cerner
- Fetal Monitoring System: Fetal Link
3. Required Experience
- Minimum 2 years of L&D nursing experience.
- High-risk delivery experience is required.
- C-section experience is required.
- Experience circulating during C-sections is required; scrubbing experience is preferred.
- Travel experience is preferred, but not explicitly mandatory.
Candidates should be able to describe the types of high-risk deliveries they have managed.
4. Required Certifications
All four certifications are required:
- BLS – Basic Life Support
- ACLS – Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support
- NRP – Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring (AFM)
A BSN degree is not required. A license is required at submission.
5. Clinical Skills & High-Risk Patient Care
Candidates should have experience with:
- Labor and delivery nursing
- High-risk pregnancies and deliveries
- Fetal heart rate monitoring
- C-section procedures and circulating
- Pitocin administration
- Magnesium sulfate administration
- Insulin drips
- Managing patients with hypertension and diabetes
- Multiple gestations
- Patients with limited or no prenatal care
- Patients with substance-use concerns
- Care for pregnancies at 20 weeks and above
6. Staffing & Department Support
- Charge Nurse: Available; may take a patient assignment when needed.
- OB Techs: Two scheduled per shift to assist with deliveries, scrub in for C-sections, and stock supplies.
- OB Coverage: Two attending OB physicians in-house 24/7.
- Neonatologist: One in-house 24/7.
- Respiratory Therapy: Available 24/7 through the NICU.
- Pharmacy: Available 24/7.
- IV Team: Not available.
7. Floating Requirements
The nurse must be willing to float between:
- Labor & Delivery
- Antepartum
- Postpartum
The requisition also states “First to Float,” so the candidate should be comfortable being among the first staff members floated when coverage is needed.
8. Holiday & Cancellation Policies
- Holidays: One major and two minor holidays.
- Hospital Cancellation Policy: Up to 4 shifts per 13-week assignment.
- For assignments shorter than 13 weeks, the hospital can cancel up to 3 shifts.
- Nail Policy: Acrylic nails and nail overlays are not permitted during the assignment.
- Scrubs: Provided by the facility; must be sterile as specified in the requisition.
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Benefits
- Referral bonus
- Weekly pay
- Medical benefits
- Continuing Education
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits