Job Title
Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse
Job Summary
We are seeking a dedicated and skilled Registered Nurse to join our Labor & Delivery team in Bozeman, Montana. This role involves providing comprehensive, patient-centered care to expectant mothers and their newborns throughout the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum phases. The successful candidate will work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary healthcare team to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
The L&D RN is responsible for assessing patient needs, developing and implementing individualized care plans, and providing patient and family education. This position requires a commitment to a modified primary nursing model and the ability to adapt to a dynamic, fast-paced environment while maintaining the highest standards of care.
Key Responsibilities
- Collect comprehensive data pertinent to the patient’s health or situation (Assessment).
- Analyze assessment data to determine diagnoses or issues (Diagnosis).
- Identify expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient or situation.
- Develop a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes (Plan of Care).
- Implement the identified plan of care, employing strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
- Facilitate patient transitions and care during labor and delivery.
- Act as a Charge Nurse as assigned.
- Be willing to float to other departments as a safety companion when needed.
- Systematically enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
- Attain knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
- Evaluate one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Interact with and contribute to the professional development of peers and colleagues.
- Collaborate with patients, families, and other healthcare professionals in the conduct of nursing practice.
- Integrate ethical provisions and research findings into all areas of practice.
- Provide leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
Required Qualifications
- Current Montana Registered Nurse (RN) Licensure.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- STABLE certification.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification, with recertification required every 2 years.
- Competence in and a willingness and ability to practice modified primary nursing.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Labor & Delivery, including antepartum, intrapartum, pre-operative, circulating, and Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) settings.
Skills & Competencies
- Demonstrates sound judgment, patience, and maintains a professional demeanor at all times.
- Ability to work effectively in a busy and stressful environment.
- Strong critical thinking, problem analysis, and decision-making skills.
- Exercises tact, discretion, sensitivity, and maintains strict confidentiality.
- Self-directed, capable of completing assignments accurately, thoroughly, and with minimal oversight.
- Strong emotional intelligence, interpersonal, and teamwork skills.
- **Stroke Competency:**
- Complies with hospital policies, procedures, protocols, and guidelines related to care for patients with hyperacute and acute stroke.
- Participates in two hours of initial cerebrovascular disease (stroke) education within one year of hire.
- Participates in one hour annually of cerebrovascular disease (stroke) education.
Shift Details
- Shift Type: Nights (NOC)
- Shift Duration: 12 hours
- Days per Week: 3
- Contract Length: 13 weeks
- Start Date: 2026-08-19
- On-call work may be required.
- Weekend rotations may be required.
- Ability to work varied shifts and potentially beyond a standard 40-hour workweek.
Licensing Requirements
- Current Montana Registered Nurse (RN) Licensure.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- STABLE certification.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification.