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

Valley Health • Winchester, VA

7d • $34 - $49

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 role requires quality communication, teamwork, leadership, and professionalism. The nurse directs, coordinates, and implements patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel while maintaining professional nursing standards.

A Registered Nurse I (RN I) is responsible for care of the assigned patient population and must complete annual mandatory competencies and unit-specific competencies identified by the Director or designee. The RN I also completes Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility; participating in PI activity and department initiatives; sharing information with the Director or designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education or professional events, workshops, or nursing articles; and maintaining a portfolio submitted annually by March 1. The nurse routinely solicits and validates patient and family satisfaction, participates in unit peer review, and develops educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.

Requirements

• Associate degree or nursing diploma (RN Diploma, ASN, or ADN).
• Registered Nurse license, or eligibility to practice pending licensure, in the Commonwealth of Virginia with either a Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state license or a Virginia single-state license, in accordance with Virginia Board of Nursing regulations.
• American Heart Association-approved Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for Healthcare Providers; new hires must have appropriate AHA certification before completing orientation.
• Competence in providing care based on the cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of human growth and development.
• Competence in providing care using the nursing process.
• Reliable means of phone communication with the hospital.
• For Labor and Delivery RNs: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) or EKG certification is required within six months of hire.
• For Labor and Delivery RNs: Pharmacology class is required within six months of hire.
• For an RNA beginning employment as an RN I or promoting to RN I from a Valley Health position: Virginia residents or non-compact-state residents must secure an Eligibility to Test Letter, or interim phone primary-source verification documented by Valley Health Nurse Recruitment while awaiting the letter. A resident of a Compact state other than Virginia must first secure a home-state Compact license with multi-state privileges before commencing RN employment.

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 and patients at appropriate cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of development.
• Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel.
• Maintain quality communication, teamwork, leadership, professionalism, and professional nursing standards.
• Complete annual mandatory competencies and unit-specific competencies identified by the Director or designee.
• Complete Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibility and participating in PI activity and department initiatives.
• Share information with the Director or designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education or professional events, workshops, or nursing articles.
• Maintain a portfolio and submit it to the Director or designee annually by March 1.
• Routinely solicit and validate patient and family satisfaction.
• Participate in peer review for the unit.
• Develop educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.

Benefits

• Zero-deductible health plan.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• Paid time off.
• Tuition assistance.
• Retirement savings match.
• Employee Assistance Program supporting emotional wellbeing.
• Healthy U incentive-based wellness program.
• Health savings account.
• Flexible spending account for childcare.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Professional development.
• Discounts to on-campus dining.

What This Job Offers

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