RN Labor and Delivery
About The Position
As a Staff RN, you will provide compassionate, high-quality, individualized care to patients, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans. You will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team in a fast-paced environment focused on patient outcomes. The role provides safe, therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way, incorporating individual differences and integrating knowledge, skills, and experience to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, including education. The RN performs psychosocial and physiologic assessments, develops care plans based on patient trends, collaborates with patients and families on realistic outcomes, and contributes to patient education and discharge planning. The RN administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards and hospital protocols, assesses and addresses pain, and tailors care to patients’ cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs. The role also includes planning for routine transitional health care needs and adapting standards and guidelines to individual patients.
Requirements
- Associate degree in Nursing or nursing diploma.
- Six months of recent hospital Labor and Delivery experience.
- Registered Nurse license in California.
- Basic Life Support (CPR) certification.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification.
- AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, therapeutic, holistic, and systematic patient care, incorporating individual differences.
- Perform psychosocial and physiologic assessments and integrate changing patient data.
- Develop plans of care based on trends among similar patients, including patient 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 approved scales, provide timely and appropriate interventions, and identify comfort-function goals with patients.
- Tailor and prioritize care to individual cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs.
- Participate in planning routine transitional health care needs, including treatment, placement, and end-of-life options.
- Adapt standards and guidelines to individual patients.
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support patient outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
