TravelNurseSource is working with Highland Staffing, LLC to find a qualified Labor/Delivery RN in Ithaca, New York, 14850!
Job Title
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery
Job Summary
This acute care hospital in Ithaca, New York, features a dedicated Birthplace unit, which opened in 2014. Located on the first floor, the unit is equipped with six Labor and Delivery Rooms, two Labor triage rooms, eleven Postpartum Rooms, a Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) including four single-family NICU rooms, and an integrated Cesarean Section Surgical Operating Room and PACU within the Labor and Delivery suite.
The Registered Nurse on the Maternal Child Health unit provides direct patient care to a diverse patient population, encompassing laboring, delivering, postpartum mothers, and neonates. This role involves cross-training across Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, and NICU, working collaboratively with unit leadership to uphold nursing standards set by governing bodies such as AWONN, ACOG, NNA, and AORN.
Responsibilities include comprehensive patient assessment, care planning, implementation, and evaluation, focusing on physical, psychological, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs. The nurse utilizes critical thinking to prioritize care, involve patients and families in goal setting, and facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide direct patient care to a designated group of patients within the Maternal Child Health department.
- Perform observation, data collection, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care.
- Assess patients and families whose needs range from uncomplicated to highly complex, recognizing normal parameters, deviations, and abnormalities.
- Develop person-centered care plans and prioritize nursing care to meet patient and family needs.
- Demonstrate critical thinking skills by making appropriate clinical decisions, prioritizing planned and unplanned events, and proactively addressing potential and actual problems.
- Implement technical skills required for the care of patients and families.
- Remain current on facility policies, procedures, and standards.
- Act as a resource to peers and facilitate the linking of patients and families with other disciplines and services as needed.
- Adhere to the scope of practice for nursing governing bodies that apply to Maternal Child Health (AWONN, ACOG, NNA, AORN).
Required Qualifications
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license.
- Minimum of one year of recent experience in Labor and Delivery.
- Ability to float to other hospital departments on a rotational basis.
- Proficiency in assessing and managing patients across a spectrum of complexity.
- Strong critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Postpartum care.
- Cross-training or experience in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Skills & Competencies
- Comprehensive Patient Assessment (physical, psychological, emotional, educational, spiritual)
- Care Planning and Implementation
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Technical Nursing Skills relevant to Maternal Child Health
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration
- Effective Communication with patients, families, and healthcare team
- Adaptability to changing unit needs and floating assignments
- Adherence to professional nursing standards and guidelines
Shift Details
- Shift Type: PM (Nights)
- Shift Duration: 8 hours (6:45 PM - 7:15 AM)
- Days per week: 5
- Contract Length: 13 weeks
- Assignment Dates: November 15, 2026 - February 13, 2027
- Weekend Requirement: No maximum weekend requirement; candidates with specific day-of-week scheduling requirements will not be considered.
- Call Requirement: Not specified.
- Floating: Expected on a rotational basis to other hospital departments outside Maternal Child Health (Labor and Delivery, L&D OR/PACU, Postpartum, NICU).
- Block Scheduling: Not guaranteed but considered upon request.
Licensing Requirements
- Active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the State of New York.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.