Registered Nurse (RN) - Labor & Delivery

Fairview Health Services•Maplewood, MN

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Fairview is hiring a Registered Nurse for the Labor & Delivery Unit at St. John’s Hospital in Maplewood, Minnesota. St. John’s is a 184-bed facility offering diagnostic and therapeutic services. The unit has 29 LDRP beds, two triage rooms, one water birth room, and two OR suites. It provides single-room care throughout patients’ stays, averages more than 200 deliveries per month, and manages daily outpatient antenatal testing. Its daily census is 18 mother-and-baby couplets, and its newly remodeled NICU has expanded care to higher-risk patients from 28 weeks’ gestational age. The RN serves as a key leader of the interdependent team and coordinates care for a group of patients to achieve patient and unit outcomes. The role applies the nursing process, communicates and collaborates with patients, families, physicians, and other disciplines, develops individualized patient and family education, and contributes to care improvements and department goals while following applicable standards and policies. This is a 0.75 FTE position (60 hours per two weeks) on the night shift, working 12-hour shifts with every-third-weekend rotation.

Requirements

At least 1 year of postpartum or labor and delivery experience, or an internship, preceptorship, or capstone in labor and delivery or postpartum.
Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association or American Red Cross.
Minnesota Registered Nurse license.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
One year of experience.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification from the American Heart Association; some positions may require ACLS depending on the unit and patient population.

Responsibilities

Coordinate care for a group of patients and help achieve patient and unit outcomes.
Comprehensively assess patient and family needs, identify outcomes, establish the plan of care, monitor progress, and modify the plan as needed.
Apply the nursing process—assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation—to coordinate outcome-focused care.
Incorporate holistic nursing theory based on Watson’s Theory of Caring and practice standards of the American Holistic Nurses’ Association when holistic therapy is offered.
Communicate the plan of care effectively with patients and families, physicians, the interdependent team, and other disciplines.
Assess and document patient and family learning needs and develop individualized education plans.
Participate in developing and implementing point-of-care improvements to support clinical quality, customer experience, nursing engagement, and efficiency and effectiveness.
Comply with regulatory, accreditation, nursing board, patient safety, infection control, and other applicable practice requirements, standards, policies, guidelines, and procedures.
Coordinate the interdependent team and promote collaborative teamwork and cooperation.
Participate in developing and achieving department goals related to safety, cost, quality, patient experience, and employee engagement.
Demonstrate dedication to the Professional Partnership Model and the HealthEast nursing vision and strategy.