Registered Nurse (RN) - Labor & Delivery (L&D) - Full-Time Day Shift
About The Position
The Center for Women at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton is a Texas 10-step facility with the “Best Place to Have a Baby” designation. This role is for a Full-Time Registered Nurse in the Labor and Delivery (L&D) department, working Day Shift (7a-7p), 3/12 hour shifts, totaling 36 hours per week. The unit is equipped with 12 LDR beds, 2 OR suites, 3 private recovery rooms, 6 Antepartum rooms, 4 private OB/ED beds, and 23 Postpartum/Newborn beds. It also features a Level III NICU with 16 private rooms. The unit averages 175-200 deliveries per month and is supported by 24/7 OB Hospitalist and a dedicated 24/7 Anesthesiologist. Texas Health Denton is a 255-bed, full-service hospital serving North Texas and Southern Oklahoma, specializing in a wide range of services including Women & Infants Care. It is a Joint Commission-accredited Primary (Level II) Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center, a Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, and a Magnet® designated hospital.
Requirements
- Associate Degree in Nursing or Nursing Diploma required; BSN preferred
- RN - Registered Nurse Upon Hire required
- BCLS – Basic Cardiac Life Support prior to providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly required
- ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support within 90 Days of hire
- IFM - Intermediate Fetal Monitoring within 12 Months required
- NRP - Essential Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 90 Days of hire
- NRPA-Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation Program within 90 Days of hire
- CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training within 90 days of hire
- 1 Year Experience as a Registered Nurse or completion of an RN residency program required
Nice To Haves
- 1 year of Labor and Delivery experience strongly preferred
Responsibilities
- Delivers care to patients utilizing the Nursing Process
- Assesses the patient
- Plans the care of the patient
- Intervenes as appropriate
- Evaluates the effectiveness of interventions
- Incorporates age specific safety/infection control measures into patient care.
- Initiates action to meet patient and/or significant others need for information
- Maintains continuity of patient care inter-shift, inter-hospital, and while expediting out of hospital transfers.
Benefits
- 401k
- PTO
- medical
- dental
- Paid Parental Leave
- flex spending
- tuition reimbursement
- student Loan forgiveness
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
