RN Labor and Delivery
About The Position
The Staff RN delivers compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients, making assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans. The nurse collaborates with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes and works with urgency and dedication in a fast-paced environment. The role provides safe, holistic, systematic therapeutic care; incorporates patient differences; and integrates knowledge, skills, and experience to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, including education. The nurse performs psychosocial and physiologic assessments as data changes, develops plans of care based on trends among similar patients, and collaborates with patients and families to identify realistic outcomes. Responsibilities also include administering prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards and hospital protocols, assessing and addressing pain and comfort goals, and planning routine transitional health care needs. Care is adapted to individual patients, including their cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs.
Requirements
- Associate degree in nursing or nursing diploma.
- Six months of recent labor and delivery hospital experience, upon hire.
- California Registered Nurse license, upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR), upon hire.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire.
- AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring, upon hire.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Nursing, upon hire.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic manner.
- Incorporate patient differences into the provision of care.
- Integrate knowledge, skills, and experience to meet patient and family needs throughout the care continuum, including patient and family education.
- Perform psychosocial and physiologic assessments that integrate changing data.
- Formulate plans of care based on trends among similar patients, including education and discharge planning.
- Collaborate with patients and families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
- Administer prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
- Assess patient pain using an approved scale, identify comfort function goals, and provide timely and appropriate assessment and intervention.
- Tailor and prioritize care to individual cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs.
- Participate in planning routine transitional health care needs, including treatment, patient placement, and end-of-life options.
- Adapt standards and guidelines to individual patients.
- Collaborate within an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
