Travel Nurse (RN) - Labor & Delivery Unit

Pre-employment modules may be required for this role. Please upload any certifications or health documents you have to your profile to expedite your on-boarding process.

Additional Details:

References: At least one reference must be from the same unit/specialty as the job you're applying to.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Must have LDRP experience and the ability to function in L&D, postpartum, and sick-baby nursery. Okay with 1 year of experience in true LDRP.
• RNs read their own EFM strips and should be able to identify major and life-threatening rhythms.

Required Credentials:

• Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring required; Advanced FHM is needed to place Cytotec in Nevada.

Special Requests:

• Management will try to accommodate scheduling requests, but travelers are expected to be flexible and help fill gaps in permanent staffing. Block scheduling may be accommodated if able but cannot be guaranteed.

Unit Details:

• Low-risk labor, antepartum testing, postpartum couplets, well nursery, and sick nursery; rare high-risk OB patients are stabilized and transferred out.
• No designated triage area; triage is done in patient rooms.
• Could have a postpartum couplet, triage, and labor patient in the same shift.
• Should be comfortable caring for sick babies prior to transport; transfers can take about 3 hours.
• For C-sections, the OR team scrubs, circulates, and recovers; the OB nurse receives the baby only.
• Common drips include Pitocin, magnesium sulfate, antibiotics, and rare insulin inductions; all IVs and IV drips are run through infusion devices.
• No dedicated charge nurse on the unit; nurses work in a team approach with patient assignments, and ER/ICU charge support is available for transfers.
• Limited ancillary support; nurse aides are rare and mainly assist with stocking rather than patient care.
• OB is on call with a 30-minute response time; no neonatologist is in house. One OB or FPOB is on at a time, with pediatric FPOB and hospitalists covering the nursery.
• Anesthesia is on call after hours with a response time of 20 minutes or less.
• Uses T-pieces for PPV, Vapotherm for high flow, Fetal Link, and Corometrics monitors.

Shift & Scheduling:

• Could be days and nights for the first 2 weeks, then days the last 2 weeks in June, then nights.
• Start time 7-730 with a 30-minute lunch. Modified self-scheduling.
• Every other weekend.
• Holiday rotation may be required.
• No call.

Floating Requirements:

• With low census in OB, travelers may be asked to stock or help around the department. If not needed on the unit, they may float as helping hands in MS, ER, or LTC, including sitter assignments, and return to OB for laboring patients.