RN II-OB (Mandatory Call), Full-Time, Night Shift

Adventist Health

About The Position

The OB/GYN Nurse plans and provides nursing care to patients and their families during antepartum, postpartum, and postoperative periods, including emergency situations. The nurse supervises and delegates care responsibilities to ancillary personnel in accordance with their scope of practice. This position is represented by CNA. Adventist Health Sierra Vista is a 162-bed acute care facility on California’s Central Coast, with a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and a county-designated trauma center.

Requirements

Associate degree or equivalent required.
Two years of OB nursing experience required.
Current RN license in the state of practice required.
Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of practice required.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from an approved vendor per Adventist Health policy required.
Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification from an approved vendor per Adventist Health policy required.
AHA-NRP or ARC-NALS required for the facility.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

Plan and provide nursing care to patients and their families during antepartum, postpartum, and postoperative periods, including emergencies.
Supervise and delegate care responsibilities to ancillary personnel according to their scope of practice.
Complete gestational and comprehensive newborn assessments, recognizing and reporting variances from normal.
Perform postpartum assessments, including assessment of fundus, lochia, perineum, and breasts.
Perform postoperative women's and GYN assessments and recognize and report variances from the normal postoperative course.
Perform physical and psychological assessments while considering age-specific and cultural differences.
Apply clinical judgment in managing perinatal, postpartum, and other women's postoperative emergencies.
Provide caring support to grieving families.
Educate patients and families throughout the postpartum or postoperative period using methods appropriate to age, condition, culture, and learning readiness.
Initiate a multidisciplinary, goal-oriented care plan in collaboration with the health care team and provide care based on the plan.
Document nursing care legibly, accurately, and promptly, including patients' responses to medications, treatments, and procedures.
Perform unit-specific safety and quality-control checks, including shift and 24-hour physician order checks, verbal and telephone order read-backs, crash-cart checks, urine quality control, refrigerator logs, and expiration-date checks.
Identify and communicate opportunities to improve care, services, and unit operations.
Remain open to change and to pursuing new unit goals.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned.