Registered Nurse - Fetal Care Children's Partnership

TriHealth•Cincinnati, OH

12d

About The Position

The Fetal Care Unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital provides highly specialized care for pregnant patients whose unborn babies have complex or high-risk medical conditions. The unit focuses on early diagnosis, advanced fetal monitoring, coordinated treatment planning, and, when needed, fetal interventions or specialized delivery planning. Nurses in the Fetal Care Unit play a critical role by providing continuous maternal and fetal assessments, monitoring vital signs and fetal status, administering medications, and assisting with diagnostic procedures and fetal therapies. They collaborate closely with maternal-fetal medicine specialists, surgeons, neonatologists, and other multidisciplinary team members to ensure seamless care. Nurses also educate and support families, helping them understand diagnoses, procedures, and care plans while offering emotional support during a stressful time. Overall, the unit combines advanced technology with compassionate, family-centered nursing care to optimize outcomes for both mother and baby. Job Overview: This position applies the nursing process in providing direct and indirect holistic care to patients and their families. The position also collaborates, in a collegial manner, with physicians and other health care team members in meeting the patient’s needs. This position may delegate certain aspects of care to those under their direct supervision, within the scope of nursing practice.

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 health care needs a various stages of the life cycle
Must have a minimum of 2 years of Labor & Delivery Experience

Nice To Haves

Preferred membership in related professional organization
RNs with more than 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time acute care experience
Preferred certification in specialty

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.