RN Labor and Delivery
About The Position
The Staff RN delivers compassionate, high-quality care to patients, supporting their well-being and recovery through individualized, comprehensive care. The role includes making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to promote optimal outcomes. The nurse uses keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, urgency, and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment. In clinical practice and case management, the RN provides safe, holistic, systematic therapeutic care; integrates relevant knowledge and experience; and meets the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, including education. The RN conducts psychosocial and physiologic assessments, develops care plans informed by patient trends, and collaborates with patients and families to identify realistic outcomes. Responsibilities also include administering prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to care standards and hospital protocols, assessing and addressing pain, tailoring care to individual cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs, and participating in routine transitional care planning.
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 degree upon hire.
Responsibilities
- Provide safe, holistic, systematic therapeutic care.
- Incorporate patient differences into care and tailor care to individual cultural, ethical, and spiritual needs.
- Integrate knowledge, skills, and experience to meet patient and family needs throughout the continuum of care, including patient and family education.
- Perform psychosocial and physiologic assessments that incorporate changing data.
- Formulate plans of care based on trends in similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
- Collaborate with patients and families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
- Administer prescribed medications and intravenous solutions in accordance with standards of care and hospital protocols.
- Assess pain using an approved scale, identify comfort-function goals with patients, and provide timely and appropriate assessment and intervention.
- Participate in planning routine transitional healthcare needs, including treatment, patient placement, and end-of-life options.
- Adapt standards and guidelines to individual patients.
- Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support optimal patient outcomes.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
