Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery

HCA Healthcare•Fort Worth, TX

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About The Position

The Registered Nurse is responsible for decisions and actions within the domain of nursing practice. The role promotes a safe and therapeutic environment, maintains specialized nursing knowledge and competence, follows facility policies and standards, and supervises other staff as designated. The nurse assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, assessing outcomes against patient-care goals, making or recommending adjustments, and following applicable nursing standards and regulations. The role resolves patient problems through multidisciplinary teamwork and protects patients and employees by following infection-control, medication-handling, and controlled-substance procedures. The nurse cares for patients in the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods and triages pregnant patients in the OBED in accordance with Medical Screening exam guidelines. Responsibilities include interpreting fetal strips using external and internal monitoring, managing high-risk patients, performing and documenting assessments and reassessments, and providing IV therapy and venipuncture for laboratory draws as ordered.

Requirements

Associate’s degree in Nursing required.
BSN required within 3 years of employment.
Ability to perform as a scrub tech during delivery required within 1 year of employment.
RN license eligible to practice in the state of Texas required.
BLS from an HCA-approved vendor required.
NRP and ACLS required within the first 90 days of hire.
Electronic Fetal Monitoring specialty certification (C-EFM) required within 6 months after becoming eligible and must be maintained.
AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring required until eligible for C-EFM.

Nice To Haves

BSN preferred.
Minimum of two years’ experience preferred.
Professional Nursing Organization membership encouraged.

Responsibilities

Promote a safe and therapeutic environment for patients and care providers.
Maintain competence in nursing practice and provide specialized care.
Follow facility policies, procedures, standards of care, and applicable regulations.
Supervise other staff as designated within the department.
Measure health outcomes against patient-care goals and standards, and make or recommend necessary adjustments.
Resolve patient problems and needs using multidisciplinary team strategies.
Follow infection-control policies, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled-substance regulations.
Care for patients during antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum periods.
Triage pregnant OBED patients according to Medical Screening exam guidelines.
Interpret fetal strips using external and internal monitoring methods.
Manage high-risk patients, including those with preterm labor, preeclampsia/eclampsia, gestational diabetes, placenta previa, and placenta abruption.
Perform and document patient assessments and reassessments at regular and indicated intervals using appropriate data-collection and analysis techniques.
Manage IV therapy and perform venipuncture for laboratory draws as needed per physician orders.

Benefits

Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health, and telemedicine coverage.
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
Paid time off and paid family leave.
Long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence.
401(k) plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay, based on years of service.
Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
Flexible spending accounts.
Preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support, and financial wellbeing counseling.
Tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships, and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
Fertility and family-building benefits and adoption assistance.
Life insurance and supplemental health protection plans.
Auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection, and consumer discounts.