RN Labor & Delivery
About The Position
The Labor & Delivery RN supports expectant parents and newborns through the birthing experience, helping ensure a safe and supported delivery. The role provides comprehensive bedside care during labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery; monitors fetal and maternal vital signs; coordinates multidisciplinary care; and provides clinical leadership by supervising unit operations and maintaining patient safety standards. The RN completes assessments and reassessments, identifies patient and family needs and risks, anticipates complications, and initiates appropriate interventions. The position is at Community Hospital of San Bernardino, a 343-bed acute care nonprofit hospital offering maternity care, pediatrics, a Level II NICU, and other services. Per Diem III employees must work 12 shifts per six-week period, including four weekend shifts, and agree to work two major and two minor holidays.
Requirements
- Associate degree in Nursing from an accredited RN program.
- California Registered Nurse (RN) License.
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification.
- For Per Diem RN: two years of Labor and Delivery experience in an acute care hospital.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive bedside care during labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery.
- Monitor fetal and maternal vital signs.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary care teams.
- Supervise unit operations and uphold patient safety standards.
- Complete assessments, admissions, transfers, shift assessments, and discharge assessments within hospital policy time frames.
- Reassess patient status as indicated.
- Identify psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, learning, and discharge-planning needs.
- Identify predictable patient problems and life-threatening situations, anticipate less predictable problems, and initiate appropriate interventions.
- Recognize how physiological and environmental factors affect the patient and family.
- Identify patient and family coping mechanisms, support systems, and their effectiveness.
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Education Level
Associate degree
