RN-Women's Services Full-Time Days

Kindred Healthcare•Hartsville, SC

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The RN-Women's Services provides individualized nursing care to patients receiving antepartum, postpartum, and gynecologic services, including recovery following cesarean birth and gynecologic procedures. The nurse uses the nursing process to assess needs, implement and evaluate care, recognize complications, and support recovery, education, and discharge. Newborn care may be provided when assigned within a mother-baby model and competency has been demonstrated. Labor and delivery assignments require separate specialty orientation and competency validation. The role is at Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, a 116-bed community hospital in Hartsville, South Carolina. Nurses entering the specialty may be considered through a structured orientation or residency with competency validation before independent assignments.

Requirements

Postsecondary certificate, diploma, or program graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
RN registered nurse state licensure and/or compact state licensure in the state of practice upon hire.
BCLS Basic Life Support from AHA or another approved program upon hire or within the facility-specified time frame.
Knowledge of antepartum and postpartum physiology, gynecologic conditions, and recovery after obstetric and gynecologic procedures.
Skill in maternal assessment, postoperative monitoring, pain assessment, and recognition of complications.
Knowledge of medications, high-alert medication safeguards, infection prevention, and practices that support safe recovery.
Ability to recognize deterioration, prioritize care, and respond effectively to maternal emergencies.
Knowledge of newborn care, feeding support, and safe sleep practices when assigned to mother-baby care.
Skill in sensitive patient education, reproductive health communication, psychosocial assessment, and bereavement support.
Ability to coordinate care, escalate concerns, and communicate effectively with patients, support persons, and interdisciplinary teams.
Skill in electronic documentation, clinical equipment use, delegation, and application of patient safety and quality improvement practices.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in nursing or a related field.
ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support within the facility-specified time frame if assigned maternal emergency or perioperative responsibilities; may be facility-specific.
NRP Neonatal Resuscitation within the facility-specified time frame if providing newborn care assignments; may be facility-specific.
Fetal Heart Monitoring Certification or education and competency validation within the facility-specified time frame if providing antepartum fetal surveillance assignments; may be facility-specific.
RNC-MNN Maternal Newborn Nursing or another relevant nursing specialty.
Prior experience in obstetric, postpartum, mother-baby, gynecologic, or related surgical nursing.
Nurses entering the specialty may be considered through a structured orientation or residency with competency validation before independent assignments.

Responsibilities

Perform and document admission and ongoing assessments for antepartum, postpartum, and gynecologic patients, including physical status, pain, psychosocial needs, reproductive health concerns, and recovery needs.
Develop, implement, and evaluate individualized nursing care plans in collaboration with patients, support persons, providers, and the interdisciplinary team.
Provide antepartum observation and prescribed care for pregnancy-related conditions; perform fetal surveillance when assigned and competency validated, and promptly report maternal or fetal concerns.
Provide postpartum care following vaginal or cesarean birth; assess bleeding, uterine involution, vital signs, incisions, pain, elimination, mobility, and recovery, and intervene when findings are abnormal.
Provide preoperative preparation and postoperative nursing care for gynecologic patients, including assessment of wounds, drains, bleeding, urinary function, mobility, and readiness for discharge.
Administer medications, intravenous fluids, blood products, and ordered treatments; monitor therapeutic response and adverse effects and apply safeguards for high-alert medications.
Recognize and respond to hemorrhage, hypertensive emergencies, infection, thromboembolic concerns, and other deterioration; initiate emergency response, communicate concerns, and support stabilization and transfer.
Provide assigned newborn assessments and routine care within a mother-baby model; support infant identification, safe sleep, bonding, feeding, and timely referral of newborn concerns.
Educate patients and caregivers about recovery, medications, incision and perineal care, infant feeding when applicable, reproductive health, warning signs, and follow-up; evaluate understanding.
Screen for psychosocial concerns, postpartum mood symptoms, safety risks, and barriers to recovery using established tools; coordinate referrals and provide sensitive support during pregnancy loss and bereavement.
Coordinate consultations, discharge planning, handoffs, and transitions of care; accurately document assessments, interventions, patient education, and outcomes, and communicate unresolved needs.
Maintain infection prevention, medication safety, patient identification, and equipment readiness; delegate appropriately and participate in emergency drills, quality improvement, and ongoing competency validation.