RN Clinical Nurse II - Labor and Delivery

UNC Health•Chapel Hill, NC

14d•Onsite

About The Position

The RN Clinical Nurse II provides competent clinical nursing care consistent with professional standards. Reporting and accountable to the Nurse Manager/Director, the Clinical Nurse coordinates and delivers patient care using the nursing process in a hospital setting. This position is in UNC Medical Center’s Labor & Delivery Unit, a Level III referral center caring for normal and high-risk laboring and antepartum patients. The unit has 15 labor and delivery rooms, 5 triage rooms, a 2-bed recovery room, and 3 operating rooms, with 24/7 anesthesia coverage. The center has approximately 4,200 births annually and performs high-risk procedures, including vaginal and cerclage placements, amniocentesis, versions, intrauterine transfusions, fetal shunt placements, and exit procedures. This is a full-time, benefited, onsite position with 12-hour shifts on a rotating day/night schedule and occasional weekend shifts. It is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and has 36 standard hours per week. The stated hiring salary range is $34.22–$48.38 per hour; pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity.

Requirements

Graduate of a Board of Nursing-approved nursing education program.
If hired after January 6, 2014, must enroll within four years of employment and obtain a bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of the employment date.
Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in North Carolina.
Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.
At least one year of nursing experience.

Responsibilities

Identify and meet personal learning needs, attend education programs, use patient education materials with assistance, and assess patients’ and families’ readiness and ability to learn.
Identify expected patient outcomes, seek guidance when revising the plan of care, participate in interdisciplinary evaluation of care, and communicate relevant information to support continuity of care.
Provide competent care for patients with complex problems, including physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs; perform bedside point-of-care testing as required.
Use organizational and nursing standards, policies, and procedures in care delivery; organize and prioritize care according to patient and family needs.
Consult appropriate resources in a timely manner for complex care issues, unusual teaching needs, or patients at high risk for discharge-planning needs.
Develop professional growth goals with assistance, achieve or renegotiate goals within the identified timeframe, and participate in unit goals and performance-improvement activities.
Support intra- and interdepartmental collaboration, use communication systems effectively, promote cost-effective care, and provide feedback to coworkers.
Remain aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting healthcare and promote a safe, clean, and secure hospital environment.
Assess complex situations to determine care priorities, synthesize assessment data before communicating it, and anticipate patient and family discharge needs.
Build relationships with families that support their ability to advocate for the patient and address their own needs.
Collaborate with patients and families to prepare or update plans of care, use multidisciplinary resources, address cultural and ethnic issues, and prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
Read relevant journals and bring potentially applicable ideas and questions to staff for assessment.