Registered Nurse ,RN (Full Time-Nights) Labor & Delivery

Texas Health • Dallas, TX

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Texas Health Dallas is hiring a Registered Nurse for its Labor and Delivery department. The position is full-time, 36 hours per week, working nights from 7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. with rotating weekends at Texas Health Dallas in Dallas, Texas. The department handles approximately 375–400 deliveries per month, has a Level IV Maternal Designation, and operates Texas Health’s only Maternal Transport Team. It is described as a long-tenured team.

The nurse provides patient care using the Nursing Process, including assessment, care planning, intervention, and evaluation. The role also involves incorporating age-specific safety and infection-control measures, responding to patients’ and significant others’ information needs, and maintaining continuity of care across shifts, hospitals, and out-of-hospital transfers.

Texas Health Dallas is an 875-bed, Magnet-designated, full-service hospital serving the Dallas community since 1966. Its specialties include cancer care, cardiology, neurosciences, women’s services, and emergency medicine. The hospital also has a Level III neonatal intensive care unit and provides wellness services, outpatient surgery, and women’s imaging services.

Requirements

• Associate degree from an accredited nursing program or a nursing diploma.
• At least one year of experience as a Registered Nurse in an acute care setting, or completion of an RN residency program.
• Registered Nurse (RN) license, required upon hire.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS), required before providing independent patient care and maintained quarterly.
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), required within 90 days of hire.
• Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRPA), required within 90 days of hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), required within 90 days of hire.
• Crisis Prevention Intervention Training (CPI), required within 90 days of hire and maintained annually.
• Intermediate Fetal Monitoring (IFM): for new hires with perinatal nursing experience who have never taken IFM, required within six months; for those without perinatal nursing experience, required within 18 months.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• At least one year of Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver patient care utilizing the Nursing Process.
• Assess patients.
• Plan patient care.
• Intervene as appropriate.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
• Incorporate age-specific safety and infection-control measures into patient care.
• Initiate action to meet patients’ and significant others’ needs for information.
• Maintain continuity of patient care across shifts and hospitals, and while expediting out-of-hospital transfers.

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible spending account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness
• Other benefits are mentioned but not specified.

What This Job Offers

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