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

Sauk Prairie Healthcare•Prairie du Sac, WI

21h•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 role is based at the hospital campus and is full-time at 0.9 FTE (72 hours per two-week pay period), with three 12-hour night shifts per week. Weekend and holiday rotations follow unit guidelines; the nurse works every third weekend and has on-call requirements of one 12-hour weekend shift and one 6-hour weekday shift every 12 weeks. The nurse provides obstetric triage and care throughout labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery, as well as care and support for newborns. Responsibilities include assessment and documentation, fetal monitoring, labor support, assisting with procedures, lactation education, nursery care, responding to emergencies, and coordinating transfers. The role also involves teamwork, maintaining unit readiness, participating in quality improvement and continuing education, and potentially precepting another person.

Requirements

Associate Degree in Nursing.
Current Wisconsin Registered Nurse license or Multistate Nurse License.
Basic Life Support certification required within three months of hire.
Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification required within one year of hire.
STABLE certification required 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 examinations and monitor labor progress, notifying providers when appropriate using the SBAR format.
Support patients' choices for pain management 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 according to hospital policy.
Care for patients whose labor is induced or augmented.
Document nursing care in the electronic medical record according to policy.
Assist providers with procedures such as internal monitor placement, amniocentesis, and external cephalic version.
Assist the CRNA with placement of regional anesthesia.
Provide care to delivering patients and postpartum mothers according to protocol.
Provide lactation support and education.
Provide nursery care for newborns, including those needing 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 according to nursing standards, policies, procedures, and protocols.
Maintain strict confidentiality and protect patients' rights.
Foster good team relationships and communicate effectively with coworkers, physicians, patients, and families.
Keep the unit clean and stocked, and ensure supplies and equipment are ready for use.
Delegate duties to others as appropriate and float to other units as necessary.
Participate in department or unit quality improvement activities.
Attend 75% of unit meetings.
May precept another person.
Treat all patients equally, with compassion and without regard to medical condition, social status, or race.
Participate in continuing education through staff meetings, online education, webinars, simulations and drills, and case review CMEs.