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ID: 78154201 Shift: 12H Nights 7p-7a, weekends as needed, first to float Description: Unit Notes:***MEDSOL PROFILE REIVEW / MANAGER INTERVIEW ***Mother Baby Boise Hospital Flr 8# Postpartum beds32 maternal bedsroom for 32 babies/couplet care# Births per day? Month? Year?about 350-400 per monthDo you follow AWHONN guidelines for ratios?Goal of 3 couplets per nurse or 1:6 ratio, Mag patients would only be 1:4 ratioRare occasion to have 4 couplets with a discharge or could have a set of twins for odd ratiosRequired Certifications (i.e., BLS, ACLS?)BLS NRP STABLECommon diagnoses/Types of patientsPost Partum, Magnesium drips, some higher risk maternal patients for the area, twins, well babies only (otherwise go to NICU), c-section (no GYN surgical patients beyond tubals etc.), and circumcision, frenectomy patientsExperience or 'Must have' skillsMust Have: experience in similar setting if traveler only has 1 year of experience. Prefer: Magnesium and 2 years of experience Are RNs required to titrate drips?YesCommon titratable &/or set rate dripsMagnesium, Pitocin per Postpartum protocolsCharge Nurse/House Supervisor? Does the charge nurse take an assignment?Charge nurse free of assignmentAre there nurse aids/surgical techs on this unit?CNAs and unit clerk/health unit coordinator. Locked unitDays have a discharge nurse to assist with education Also have lactation consultants, use ABM modelContracted staff to do hearing screens, photography and car seat safety, does newborn screenings, and lab does some newborn metabolic screenings. OB/Neonatologist in house 24/7?Neonatologist in NICU 24/7- will come for emergenciesNewbornist/ APP during the day- available 24/7Obstetrics/ hospitalist in house- available for emergenciesAnesthesia in house 24/7?Yes in house 24/7RT Equipment (vents, Cpap, BiPap, etc.)Moms on occasional oxygen, if baby needs more than supplemental oxygen during resuscitation would go to NICUAre there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Are RNs required to read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors?Rare to have patient on tele, some moms with cardiac historyCharting SystemEpicShifts & Scheduling (Do you allow self-scheduling? Block scheduling?)12 hour shifts 7a-730 & 1900-0730, travelers to be placed wherever needed, managers to make the schedule. Placed in gaps in scheduleWeekend RequirementsEOW or as neededHoliday RequirementsYes, expected to work Holidays as neededIs there a call or standby requirement?No, sometimes potential to pick upFloating Requirements?Yes we float to the Meridian, Nampa hospitals to take like patient assignments, and have to sit with pts on other floors occasionally.Scrub Color/Dress codeAny color, solid or print, clean and respectable scrubs, closed toed and heeled (no crocks)Unit/Department specific orientationtravelers to first to float Nampa and Meridian as well as first to sit2-3 shifts of orientation Cancellation may cancel up to 4 times per 13 week contract. Each cancellation could be a full shift or any part of a shift. (Hospital may also pay full hours for a particular shift, in lieu of cancellation). Charting BSN License to Trauma Level: Care Shift , weekends as needed, first to float Required Certification, NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program), STABLE Certification Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours per week Contract Weeks:91