RN Labor & Delivery
About The Position
The Labor & Delivery RN provides bedside care to expectant parents and newborns throughout labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery, supporting a safe and memorable birthing experience. The role monitors fetal and maternal vital signs, coordinates multidisciplinary care, supervises unit operations, and upholds patient-safety standards. The nurse completes and reassesses patient assessments as required by hospital policy and identifies psychosocial, spiritual, cultural, learning, and discharge-planning needs. The role also involves recognizing patient risks and problems, initiating appropriate interventions, understanding how physiological and environmental factors affect patients and families, and evaluating coping mechanisms and support systems. The posting includes Per Diem III requirements: agreement to work two major holidays, two minor holidays, 12 shifts per six-week period, and four weekend shifts per six-week period.
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.
- For Per Diem III: agree to work two major holidays, two minor holidays, 12 shifts per six-week period, and four weekend shifts per six-week period.
Responsibilities
- Provide 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 relationships between physiological and environmental factors and their effects on patients and families.
- Identify patient and family coping mechanisms and support systems, and assess their effectiveness.
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What This Job Offers
Education Level
Associate degree
