Registered Nurse - Women's Health

Tomah Health•Tomah, WI

About The Position

The Registered Nurse provides quality nursing care for maternal and newborn patients and works with other professional staff to deliver services consistent with the hospital’s caring philosophy. This is a part-time position with benefits, scheduled for 48 hours per two-week pay period in varied 12-hour shifts from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. or 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., primarily nights. The schedule includes every fifth weekend and holiday rotation. Pay is based on experience, with shift differentials when applicable. The nurse provides and evaluates direct patient care, develops individualized care plans, administers medications, performs nondelegable procedures, supports patient education, and supervises delegated nursing care. The role also includes documentation, quality and safety activities, ongoing professional development, and collaboration with patients, families, coworkers, and other health care team members.

Requirements

Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
Current licensure to practice as a registered nurse in Wisconsin.
Current certification or eligibility to become certified in BLS, ACLS, and neonatal care.
Demonstrated competency in caring for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients and their newborns.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills.
Ability to acquire knowledge and maintain established competency levels for professional nursing practice.
Proficient computer skills, including the ability to work in a Windows environment and use a keyboard.
Ability to work with frequent interruptions and under stress, with minimal supervision, and to exercise initiative and judgment in organizing, planning, prioritizing, scheduling, and coordinating work.
Strong intelligence, integrity, sense of responsibility, and ability to comprehend and analyze details.
Knowledge of professional nursing theory, principles, techniques, practice, scientific principles, nursing research, medications, treatments, medical procedures, counseling and teaching techniques, and patient-care equipment.
Ability to operate and handle complex equipment.
Ability to demonstrate clinical competence and maintain current knowledge in caring for patients from infancy through geriatric age.
Ability to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, and to talk and hear; frequently stand, walk, and reach; and occasionally sit, climb or balance, stoop, kneel or crouch, and smell.
Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Good hearing to receive detailed oral information and distinguish sounds, and visual acuity to assess color changes, verify written materials, and prepare and administer medications.

Responsibilities

Complete nursing histories, assess assigned patients, and develop individual plans of care.
Provide direct patient care, evaluate outcomes, consult with specialists as needed, and adjust care processes.
Administer medications and perform procedures that cannot be delegated, including labor assessment and management, fetal heart monitoring, intravenous therapy, emergency drug administration, newborn assessment, neonatal resuscitation, and management of maternal and neonatal emergencies.
Teach and supervise nursing acts delegated to others and monitor care provided by other health care team members.
Promote patient and client education and involve patients and significant others in implementing health goals.
Follow applicable Joint Commission standards and participate in fire, safety, disaster, and infection-control education and exercises.
Participate in patient quality-assessment activities, including chart review.
Meet certification and recertification requirements and attend continuing education to remain current.
Document patient care and related information in computerized systems.
Develop professional goals and complete required education, audits, and in-services within the allotted time.
Follow hospital customer-service, dress-code, hygiene, confidentiality, patient-safety, and quality-improvement standards.
Be prepared for scheduled work and demonstrate initiative, teamwork, organization, effective time management, and communication.