Job Title: RN Labor and Delivery
Profession: Registered Nurse
Specialty: Labor and Delivery
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 07:00 PM - 07:30 AM
Hours per Shift: 12.5
Experience: Minimum 2 years
License: Active RN License
Certifications: BLS, ACLS, NRP, AWHONN/Fetal Heart Monitoring, GRH CPI/MOAB
Must-Have: Epic EMR Experience
Description:
Delivers care to patients utilizing the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation in coordination with other health team members.
Effectively interacts with the patient and significant others while maintaining high standards of professional nursing.
Provides high-quality care to patient populations including adolescent and adult females, as well as neonates.
While the traveler will not be part of a regular call rotation, they may occasionally be placed on call during periods of low census.
If called in, the traveler is expected to respond and arrive on-site within one hour.
The unit operates as a Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum setting with a 3-bed triage space.
Nurses function in all capacities including labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum, nursery, and NICU.
The unit has an operating room for C-sections and a team including midwives and OB/GYNs.
Pediatric hospitalists staff the nursery and NICU.
During periods of low census, staff may be utilized in the Pediatric Department or out on acute care as a rescue or constant observer.
The unit includes 12 LDRP rooms, 3 triage beds, 16 nursery beds, and 3 NICU beds.
Basic and intermediate fetal monitoring skills are required.
NRP and BLS are required, while STABLE certification is preferred but not required.
Nurses are required to assist in C-sections but will only be responsible for the care of the infant and will not scrub in for the procedure.
The unit operates a Level 2 nursery.