Registered Nurse - Labor - Delivery - Full Time - Shift Varies

Valley Health System•Winchester, VA

About The Position

The registered professional nurse uses nursing skills to carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management. The nurse is responsible for effective communication, teamwork, leadership, and professionalism; directs, coordinates, and implements patient teaching and quality and safety initiatives; coordinates activities of other health team personnel; and maintains professional nursing standards. A Registered Nurse I provides care to the population assigned to them. The RN I completes annual mandatory and unit-specific competencies and fulfills Professional Practice Ladder requirements. These include assuming Charge Nurse responsibility; participating in PI activities and department initiatives; sharing information with the Director/Designee and coworkers from a unit or hospital committee, Valley Health-paid education or professional events, or a nursing article; maintaining and submitting a portfolio annually by March 1; soliciting and validating patient and family satisfaction; participating in unit peer review; and developing educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or families. This position is in Labor & Delivery. Labor and Delivery nurses must complete ACLS or EKG and a pharmacology class within six months of hire.

Requirements

Associate degree in nursing (RN Diploma, ASN, or ADN).
Current RN license or eligibility to practice pending licensure as a Registered Nurse in Virginia, with either a Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state license or a Virginia-only single-state license.
American Heart Association-approved BLS certification for Healthcare Providers; new hires must hold the appropriate AHA certification before completing orientation.
Competence in providing care based on patients’ cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of growth and development.
Competence in providing patient care using the nursing process.
A reliable means of phone communication with the hospital.
If beginning employment or promoting to RN I while awaiting licensure, obtain the applicable Virginia Board of Nursing Eligibility to Test Letter or documented interim primary-source verification; residents of another compact state must first obtain their home-state compact license with multi-state privileges.
For Labor and Delivery nurses, ACLS or EKG is required within six months of hire.
For Labor and Delivery nurses, a pharmacology class is required within six months of hire.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Relevant specialty certification.

Responsibilities

Carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.
Provide care to the assigned patient population using the nursing process and in accordance with patients’ cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of growth and development.
Maintain effective communication, teamwork, leadership, professionalism, and professional nursing standards.
Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel.
Complete annual mandatory and unit-specific competencies.
Meet Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility, participating in PI activities and department initiatives, and sharing relevant information with the Director/Designee and coworkers.
Maintain and submit a portfolio annually by March 1.
Solicit and validate patient and family satisfaction and participate in unit peer review.
Develop educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.
For Labor and Delivery nurses, complete ACLS or EKG and a pharmacology class within six months of hire.