Registered Nurse - Advanced OB

TriHealth•Cincinnati, OH

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Registered Nurse in the Advanced OB Unit at Good Samaritan, you will apply the nursing process to provide both direct and indirect holistic, patient-centered care to high-risk obstetric patients and their families, supporting mothers and infants through complex pregnancies, labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period. You will collaborate in a collegial manner with physicians and the interdisciplinary care team to ensure safe, evidence-based care and optimal outcomes in a specialized environment designed for advanced maternal-fetal needs. In this role, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized care, serve as a patient and family advocate through education and emotional support, and respond effectively in high-acuity situations. Additionally, you may delegate certain aspects of care to those under your direct supervision in accordance with the scope of nursing practice, while maintaining accountability for care quality, safety, and adherence to professional and regulatory standards.

Requirements

Associate's Degree or Diploma in Nursing
New hires required to obtain BSN within 5 years of hire
BLS/CPR (Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers)
Registered Nurse
Knowledge, judgment, and skills derived from the principles of biological, physical, behavioral, social, and nursing sciences to meet complex healthcare needs a various stages of the life cycle

Nice To Haves

2 years of Labor & Delivery Experience
Preferred membership in related professional organization

Responsibilities

Performs initial and ongoing assessment of patient and family.
Completes initial assessment tool.
Documents ongoing assessment per unit/TriHealth guidelines.
Communicates assessment findings to other health care providers as appropriate.
Includes health counseling and health teaching needs in assessment.
Plans care for patient and family based on assessment, standards of care, and optimal specific outcomes.
Initiates and individualizes appropriate patient care guidelines/plan of care or clinical pathways.
Updates current plan of care as needed based on patient/family input and healthcare needs.
Develops both short- and long-term goals with patient/family and healthcare team including discharge planning.
Communicates plan of care to others.
Provides a safe, therapeutic environment, maintains patient’s autonomy, dignity, and rights, and is sensitive to patient diversity.
Seeks resources to help formulate ethical decisions.
Balances priorities of the patient's needs and those of the unit/facility.
Recognizes emergency situations and takes appropriate action.
Completes patient assignment including documentation within scheduled timeframe.
Bases interventions on clinical data and desired outcomes and documents accordingly.
Trains/educates other staff and acts an expert resource in specialty area through abilities in existing and newer knowledge and skills.
Effectively communicates and understands/executes physician orders.
Evaluates the plan of care for patient based on optimal specific patient outcomes.
Documents the patient/family response to care including teaching.
Collaborates with the patient/family and with other members of the health care team, including physicians, to revise plan of care as needed.
Supervises the care that was delegated to other health care team members.
Performs technical skills according to policy and procedure and accepted standards within their area of practice.
Safely administers medications/treatments and monitors their effects.
Uses all equipment in a safe, appropriate manner.
Demonstrates organizations responsibilities: Identifies areas for self-improvement, functions in relief charge / resource role as requested, completes assignments within scheduled timeframes, cooperates with instructor to facilitate effective learning experiences for students, maintains current knowledge in area of practice, demonstrates knowledge of organizational and department changes.