Registered Nurse (RN) - Birth & Women's Care Center

Sauk Prairie Healthcare • Prairie du Sac, WI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides quality, professional nursing care to obstetric and newborn patients, including labor and delivery, in accordance with applicable standards, practices, policies, and procedures. The position is based at the hospital campus and is scheduled for three 12-hour night shifts per week, totaling 0.9 FTE (72 hours per two-week pay period). The role includes weekend and holiday rotations and periodic weekend and weekday on-call shifts.

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Nursing.
• Current Wisconsin Registered Nurse license or Multistate Nurse License.
• Basic Life Support certification within three months of hire.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification within one year of hire.
• STABLE (Sugar & Safe Care, Temperature, Airway, Blood Pressure, Lab Work, Emotional Support) certification within one year of hire.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage for obstetric outpatients.
• Complete nursing admission assessments, review health histories and prenatal records, and document according to policy.
• Initiate fetal monitoring and interpret and document fetal tracings according to guidelines.
• Perform vaginal exams and monitor labor progress, notifying providers when appropriate using the SBAR format.
• Support patients’ pain-management choices and provide labor support to patients and their families.
• Prepare sterile delivery instruments and explain procedures and treatments to patients.
• Prepare patients for scheduled and emergent cesarean sections in accordance with hospital policy.
• Care for patients undergoing labor induction or augmentation.
• Document nursing care in the electronic medical record according to policy.
• Assist providers with procedures, including internal monitor placement, amniocentesis, and external cephalic version; assist the CRNA with regional anesthesia placement.
• Provide care to delivering patients and postpartum mothers according to protocol.
• Provide lactation support and education and perform newborn nursery care, including care for newborns requiring additional care such as IV therapy or oxygen.
• Give bedside shift-to-shift reports using the SBAR format.
• Accompany obstetric patients when they are transferred to another facility.
• Respond to life-threatening situations in accordance with nursing standards, policies, procedures, and protocols.
• Maintain strict confidentiality and protect patients’ rights; treat patients equally, compassionately, and without regard to medical condition, social status, or race.
• Foster good team relationships and communicate effectively with coworkers, physicians, patients, and patients’ family members.
• Keep the unit clean and stocked, and ensure supplies and equipment are ready for use.
• Delegate duties as appropriate and float to other units as necessary.
• Participate in unit or department quality improvement activities and attend 75% of unit meetings.
• May precept another person.
• Participate in continuing education through staff meetings, online education, webinars, simulations and drills, and case-review CMEs.

Benefits

• Competitive health and dental insurance options.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Retirement plan with immediate vesting and employer match.
• Discounted membership to the fitness facility.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employer-provided life and disability insurance.
• Free parking at the facility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Associate degree