RN-Womens Services Full-Time Nights

Kindred Healthcare•Cleveland, MS

5d•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 includes assessments and care planning, monitoring and treatment, patient and caregiver education, psychosocial screening and support, coordination of transitions of care, accurate documentation, and participation in safety and quality practices. 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 graduate credential from an accredited school of nursing (required).
Registered Nurse state licensure and/or compact state licensure in the state of practice upon hire (required).
Basic Life Support certification from the AHA or another approved program upon hire or within the facility-specified time frame (required).
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.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification if assigned maternal emergency or perioperative responsibilities, within the facility-specified time frame (may be required; facility specific).
Neonatal Resuscitation certification if providing newborn care assignments, within the facility-specified time frame (may be required; facility specific).
Fetal Heart Monitoring certification or education and competency validation if providing antepartum fetal surveillance assignments, within the facility-specified time frame (may be required; 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

Performs and documents admission and ongoing assessments for antepartum, postpartum, and gynecologic patients, including physical status, pain, psychosocial needs, reproductive health concerns, and recovery needs.
Develops, implements, and evaluates individualized nursing care plans in collaboration with patients, support persons, providers, and the interdisciplinary team.
Provides antepartum observation and prescribed care for pregnancy-related conditions; performs fetal surveillance when assigned and competency validated, and promptly reports maternal or fetal concerns.
Provides postpartum care following vaginal or cesarean birth; assesses bleeding, uterine involution, vital signs, incisions, pain, elimination, mobility, and recovery, and intervenes when findings are abnormal.
Provides preoperative preparation and postoperative nursing care for gynecologic patients, including assessment of wounds, drains, bleeding, urinary function, mobility, and readiness for discharge.
Administers medications, intravenous fluids, blood products, and ordered treatments; monitors therapeutic response and adverse effects and applies safeguards for high-alert medications.
Recognizes and responds to hemorrhage, hypertensive emergencies, infection, thromboembolic concerns, and other deterioration; initiates emergency response, communicates concerns, and supports stabilization and transfer.
Provides assigned newborn assessments and routine care within a mother-baby model; supports infant identification, safe sleep, bonding, feeding, and timely referral of newborn concerns.
Educates patients and caregivers about recovery, medications, incision and perineal care, infant feeding when applicable, reproductive health, warning signs, and follow-up; evaluates understanding.
Screens for psychosocial concerns, postpartum mood symptoms, safety risks, and barriers to recovery using established tools; coordinates referrals and provides sensitive support during pregnancy loss and bereavement.
Coordinates consultations, discharge planning, handoffs, and transitions of care; documents assessments, interventions, patient education, and outcomes accurately and communicates unresolved needs.
Maintains infection prevention, medication safety, patient identification, and equipment readiness; delegates appropriately and participates in emergency drills, quality improvement, and ongoing competency validation.