Staff Nurse (RN), Labor and Delivery, Full-Time, Nights

University of Chicago•Chicago, IL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Join UChicago Medicine as a Staff Nurse in Labor and Delivery. At the Family Birth Center, we offer a customized birth experience in the comfort and privacy of our nurturing environment. Our team of experts supports pregnant women and their partners and families with compassion and respect through pregnancy, childbirth, bonding, breastfeeding and healing. Equipped with private triage, delivery, antepartum and recovery suites, two large, private natural birthing suites, both with built-in warm water immersion (hydrotherapy) tubs, and operating rooms to support an optimized cesarean birth experience when necessary, the Family Birth Center was designed to optimize comfort, safety and options as you welcome your newest loved one. A Staff Nurse is a registered professional nurse (RN) who manages patient centered care that is outcome directed. Patient centered care principles and professional nursing practice standards provide the foundation for the nurse to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care provided. The staff nurse assumes the primary responsibility and accountability for all patient care personally provided and that provided by those directly under her/his supervision.

Requirements

Graduate of an NLN accredited School of Nursing
Associate Degree in Nursing; Associate Degree Nurses are required to enroll in a BSN program within six (6) to nine (9) months of hire, and make progress toward and complete their BSN degree within 30 months.
Current Illinois RN license
Active BLS certification

Nice To Haves

Labor and Delivery RN experience

Responsibilities

Manages patient centered care that is outcome directed.
Assesses, plans, implements and evaluates the care provided.
Assumes the primary responsibility and accountability for all patient care personally provided and that provided by those directly under her/his supervision.