Registered Nurse (RN) - L&D

Tenet Healthcare Corporation•Boca del Mar, FL

About The Position

The Women’s Services Registered Nurse provides high-quality, safe, cost-effective nursing care to postpartum patients and neonates using the nursing process. The RN coordinates and integrates patient care according to the needs of patients and their families, follows established safety, risk-management, and infection-control standards, and aims to support an optimal level of care at discharge. The RN uses evidence-based practice, follows professional standards and the Florida State Nurse Practice Act, and reviews orders and test results while documenting care accurately and promptly in the electronic health record. Care is provided in a family-centered environment in which mothers and newborns remain together during their hospital stay. The role also includes delivery-room attendance and stabilization of well newborns. The RN applies and interprets fetal heart rate monitoring and cares for low- and high-risk antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients. The role includes recognizing abnormal fetal heart rate patterns and implementing appropriate interventions; caring for patients experiencing perinatal loss or undergoing cesarean section, tubal ligation, or cerclage; caring for patients receiving tocolytic drugs or cervical-ripening agents; and circulating for all surgical cases in the LDRP operating room.

Requirements

Graduate of an RN program.
Florida RN License.
American Heart Association BLS certification.
American Heart Association ACLS certification.
NRP at hire or within 90 days of start date for inexperienced RNs.
Minimum one year of experience in a Med/Surg area or in a nursery, mother-baby, or Labor and Delivery unit is listed; the posting describes this experience as preferred.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
One year of experience in a Med/Surg area or in a nursery, mother-baby, or Labor and Delivery unit.

Responsibilities

Provide nursing care to postpartum patients and neonates using the nursing process.
Coordinate and integrate patient care according to the needs of patients and their family members.
Direct care according to established safety, risk-management, and infection-control standards.
Use evidence-based practice in accordance with professional standards and the Florida State Nurse Practice Act.
Review orders and test results and document care accurately and promptly in the electronic health record.
Provide care in a family-centered environment where mothers and newborns remain together during the hospital stay.
Attend deliveries and stabilize well newborns.
Apply fetal heart rate monitors and interpret fetal heart rate tracings.
Care for low- and high-risk antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum mothers.
Recognize abnormal fetal heart rate patterns and implement appropriate interventions.
Care for patients experiencing perinatal loss.
Care for patients undergoing cesarean section, tubal ligation, and cerclage.
Care for patients receiving tocolytic drugs and cervical-ripening agents.
Circulate for all surgical cases in the LDRP operating room.