Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery w/bonus - 5380

Vantage Search Group•Fort Walton Beach, FL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery provides comprehensive primary care to women and their babies in a variety of settings, including antepartum management, intrapartum management, postpartum care, and newborn care. The role requires knowledge of normal deliveries and their complications, medical disorders such as premature birth, fetal death, forceps delivery, and C-sections, and the therapeutic interventions indicated for these situations. The nurse administers pharmacological agents accurately, including dosage calculations, and understands their desired effects, side effects, and potential complications. The nurse enters patient data and retrieves patient information using Department of Defense medical systems, including MHS GENESIS, and completes medical record documentation within 72 business hours of the patient encounter. The position is at Eglin Air Force Base in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Nurses work 14 shifts per month, with 12-hour shifts and a 30-minute lunch break. Shift rotations occur every four months, though schedules may vary according to departmental needs. Duty hours are scheduled by the Labor and Delivery Flight Commander or designee. Day shifts run 0545–1815 and night shifts run 1745–0615.

Requirements

ASN degree from an accredited college or university.
At least one year of post-graduate RN clinical labor and delivery experience within the past three years.
Current, full, active, unrestricted RN license from any state.
Maintain current AHA or ARC BLS, NRP, and Fetal Heart Monitoring certifications.
Ability to pass a government background check/security clearance.
Ability to acquire and use basic computer skills for patient data entry and retrieval in DOD government medical systems.

Responsibilities

Provide comprehensive primary care to women and babies, including antepartum management, intrapartum management, postpartum care, and newborn care.
Care for patients with a range of medical disorders and delivery circumstances, including premature birth, fetal death, forceps delivery, C-sections, and complications of normal deliveries; provide indicated therapeutic interventions.
Administer pharmacological agents accurately, including required dosage calculations, and account for their desired effects, side effects, and complications.
Use Department of Defense medical systems, including MHS GENESIS, to enter patient data and retrieve patient information.
Complete medical record documentation within 72 business hours of each patient encounter.
Work 14 12-hour shifts per month, rotating between shifts every four months as scheduled to meet department needs.