Registered Nurse RN Family Birth Center

Trinity Health•Athens, GA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Registered Nurse – Family Birth Center RN works in a collaborative environment at St Mary’s Health Care System to deliver excellent patient care as part of an interdisciplinary team providing evidence-based medicine and individualized patient care. A Registered Nurse RN is expected to facilitate all aspects of the patient visit experience. Great opportunity for a Registered Nurse RN professional to work in an organization that focuses on treating the whole person, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The Family Birth Center is a 22 bed unit with 19 LDRPs and 3 triage rooms. Nurses learn all components of the labor process: antepartum, triage/OBED, labor, c-sections and couplet care. We have 24/7 hospitalists. Under limited supervision, the Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing patients, including developing, evaluating, and modifying the care plan. The RN interprets and performs complex patient-care procedures specific to their expertise. RNs are members of the Care Team and Support Team and have accountability to function as a team to accomplish patient outcomes identified in the pathway/plan of care. The Registered Nurse is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for the care given to a group of patients for a designated time frame. The RN provides care to those patients via therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/technology, and other healthcare team members, according to established standards.

Requirements

A current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Georgia.
Graduation from an accredited nursing education program approved by the Board of Nursing or found by the Board to be substantially equivalent to the programs in Georgia.
Successful completion of a refresher course within the past 6 months if nursing practice has not occurred within the past 5 years.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in preferred.

Responsibilities

Assessing patients, including developing, evaluating, and modifying the care plan.
Interpreting and performing complex patient-care procedures specific to their expertise.
Functioning as a team to accomplish patient outcomes identified in the pathway/plan of care.
Assuming responsibility and accountability for the care given to a group of patients for a designated time frame.
Providing care to patients via therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/technology, and other healthcare team members, according to established standards.