Registered Nurse II Labor and Delivery PRN

Medical University of South Carolina • Orangeburg, SC

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This PRN labor and delivery registered nurse position is based at MUSC Orangeburg Her Place, a 32-bed labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, and GYN unit. The unit provides private labor suites with continuous fetal monitoring and family-centered care. Care is delivered collaboratively with patients, families, and healthcare providers, with support that may include lactation, emotional, social service, and educational resources throughout labor, birth, postpartum recovery, and the early days of motherhood.

The nurse provides professional nursing care within an assigned unit and coordinates care planning with other disciplines. The role involves assessing patients, developing and evaluating care plans, coordinating services and discharge planning, supporting patient and family education, communicating during hand-offs, and contributing to patient safety and service. The position may supervise LPNs, CNAs, WS, Techs, and MOAs, and may perform charge duties after six months of nursing experience and appropriate training.

The work environment includes regular exposure to infectious, contagious, and blood-borne diseases; contact with patients in varied circumstances; and potential exposure to unpleasant or unpredictable situations, emergencies, occasional irregular hours, and radiation. The role serves patients across all age groups and requires responsiveness to patients, families, and visitors from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current RN license in the state of South Carolina.
• Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification.
• Ability to stand for up to 12 hours and to walk, sit, use hands, reach, stoop, kneel, talk, hear, and smell.
• Ability to lift or exert energy up to 35 pounds; safe patient-handling equipment must be used to transfer or lift patients over 35 pounds.
• Visual capabilities including close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Ability to read and interpret business or safety manuals, clinical or technical procedures, and regulations; write reports, correspondence, and/or manuals; communicate information and respond to questions; perform more complex mathematical calculations; define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; interpret concrete and abstract concepts and verbal, nonverbal, and written instructions; and multitask and prioritize responsibilities.
• Knowledge and skill to meet the physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related needs of patients in the assigned work area, and ability to respond to patients, families, and visitors from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Compliance with infection-control protocols and proper use of personal protective equipment.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Nursing degree preferred.
• Some clinical or hospital experience is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Document initial nursing histories, assess patient conditions in accordance with policy, and develop individualized care plans considering physical, psychosocial, environmental, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Assist physicians with examinations, procedures, and other direct patient-care processes according to established policies and procedures.
• Evaluate patient-care outcomes, consult specialists as needed, and revise nursing care processes to support optimal care.
• Coordinate discharge planning.
• Monitor and record patients’ conditions.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Develop and evaluate teaching plans based on identified learning needs, including family teaching as appropriate.
• Coordinate ordered diagnostic and therapeutic services.
• Communicate patient conditions during hand-offs.
• Perform related duties assigned by the director of nursing, charge nurse, and/or medical staff.
• Perform charge duties when requested by the director, after six months of nursing experience and appropriate training.
• Round on patients in accordance with policy to improve clinical outcomes.
• Orient or mentor new staff members.
• Listen effectively to patients to facilitate care requirements.
• Provide first-line customer service responses.
• Follow MUSC Standards of Behaviors.
• Provide financial stewardship of supplies and resources.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: Associate degree