Travel Nurse (RN) - Labor & Delivery Unit

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Additional Details:

Guaranteed Hours 36

First schedule travelers will fill in the holes, the next schedule travelers can give preference and they will try to work with them but they will fit them in to the schedule around core staff.

Do NOT guarantee Block Scheduling- can not work 6 shifts in a row.

Weekend Requirements: No minimum requirement. Based on unit needs and requests

Holiday Requirements: No set requirement for travel RNs. Regular Staff have a set holiday rotation and there are 3 groups. May work a holiday if there is a need during contract

Float to all St. Lukes Treasure Valley Sites-Meridian, Nampa, Boise in primary skill set (L&D, Postpartum, or Antepartum) or as a sitter.

• LDRP Beds: 14 LDRP- patients stay in the same room
• OR Suites on the unit for C-Sections: 2 suites- RNs will circulate and recover
• Triage beds: 4- travelers will staff
• Do you follow AWHONN guidelines for ratios?: Follow AWHONN Staffing Standards. 1:1 labor unless pairing 2 cervical ripening patients. Postpartum is 1:3 couplets care. Triage 1:3, if get up to 4pts will utilize Resource nurse
• Common diagnoses/Types of patients: 32 week gestation and greater, HTN-getting mag, BACs, TOLACs, some gestational diabetes, community has a lot of home birth midwives so a lot of the population comes in for medical intervention and pain control. Do have some antepartum patients. Do not take placenta previa or placenta accreta. Serve a very diverse population.

Experience or 'Must have' skills: Must have mother baby experience- prefer 1 year. Must have experience and be able to attend deliveries and complete 1 hour of newborn care, triage, Circulate C/S, and provide Postpartum Couplet Care. Must have experience with magnesium. Charge nurse experience preferred.

Will accept 1 year experience

Are RNs required to titrate drips?: Yes - Common titratable &/or set rate drips: Yes – Pitocin Protocol, Magnesium Protocol, Insulin drips (occasionally)

Additional Notes: Travel duos will need 2 cars, can not do 1 car as they could be at different sites or float during shift. Scrubs could be different at different sites- this site is the only LDRP site.

Scrub Color/Dress code: Hospital issued scrubs-required to be changed in to and out of at beginning and end of shift.