Registered Nurse - Family Care Center, Full-Time Nights

Cape Fear Valley Health

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Registered Nurse plans and implements professional nursing care for patients in accordance with hospital policies and assumes charge nurse responsibilities as assigned. The role is based in the Family Center Care Unit (The Women’s Pavilion), a 48-room unit serving postpartum, antepartum, and simple gynecological surgical patients. The unit averages 400 deliveries per month and has a patient ratio of 1:4. Care includes management of low- to high-risk postpartum patients following vaginal or cesarean delivery, care for antepartum patients who need specialized care, and safe, efficient, compassionate perioperative and postoperative care for simple gynecological surgical patients. The unit’s goal is to help women have healthy pregnancies, births, and babies. New graduate nurses are welcome.

Requirements

Associate Degree in Nursing or equivalent.
Current licensure in North Carolina as a Registered Nurse or compact-state licensure.
Current BLS certification from the American Heart Association.
RN license from the Board of Nursing.
Proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking English.
Positive interpersonal skills and effective verbal and written communication skills.
Effective organizational and leadership skills.
Knowledge of the age-specific physiological, psychosocial, developmental, and spiritual needs of the patients typically served.
Ability to lift 35 pounds.
Speech and auditory acuity to communicate patient needs, and visual acuity to observe patients.
Ability to perform substantial standing, walking, bending, and lifting.
May have skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious material.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
1–2 years of related clinical experience.
Maternal/newborn assessment experience.
Breastfeeding support experience.

Responsibilities

Assess patients and identify their care needs.
Use patient assessment information to organize appropriate care.
Plan, organize, implement, and evaluate patient care.
Facilitate a safe environment and maintain required competencies.
Function as charge nurse when assigned.
Maintain accurate and relevant patient-care records.
Administer medications as ordered by a physician.
Recognize life-threatening situations and respond appropriately.
Establish collaborative interdisciplinary relationships with Health System staff and medical staff.
Monitor quality of care using pre-established outcome-oriented indicators.
Participate in cost containment and assist with accurate charging for patient services.
Adjust care to patients’ age-specific physiological and psychosocial needs.
Support patients’ cultural and spiritual beliefs within the limits of the medical regimen.
Perform other duties as assigned.