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:

Required Skills/Experience: Circulating cesarean sections, Mother baby(Couplet Care). Catching babies, will need to know what to do for the first hour. Experience with all the high risk patients (shoulder dystonia, emergent c section, post-partum hemorrhage, preterm on Mg, pre-eclampsia)

Preferred Skills/Experience: Mother baby experience highly preferred.

Types of Patients on Unit: A lot of high risk pregnancies. Laboring patients, Scheduled Inductions, Scheduled Cesarean Sections, High Risk Patients (Magnesium Sulfate Patients, Preterm Labor Patients, Diabetic Patients, Postpartum hemorrhage), Hyperemesis Patients, Cerclages, NST’s, ~20 week gestation. Cervidil induction.

Equipment Used on Unit: IV pumps: Hospira/ Abbott Plum A+, Medication dispensing: Omnicell, Monitors: GE Corometrics Fetal Monitors, Novii, Space Labs, Paper charting*: once baby is delivered (about 3 sheets)

Technology Used on Unit: Cerner Maternity, OR: surginet

Unit/Facility Details:

• 492 Beds, 7 Labor Beds, 3 Antepartum beds, 2 Triage Beds, 2 OR’s

• Patient Ratios: -AWHONN guidelines – but also flexible and dependent on staffing -Typically, 1:1 – i.e patient on Pitocin -1:2 – Pitocin + triage or cervidil -1:3 stable antepartum or triage -Mother baby: Up to 6 patients, either 1: 3 couplets or 1:6 moms

• Parking: Free

Special Requests:

• cannot guarantee block schedule

• No RTO will be approved during the following dates:

Halloween Weekend: 10/30 - 11/3 Thanksgiving: 11/26 - 11/30 Christmas / New Year’s: 12/21 - 1/1

Shift & Scheduling:

• Every other weekend

• No mandatory call but may have low census call.

• Call back time: 30 minutes

• Schedule cycle: 4 weeks; smart square application. Sign up after permanent staff; self scheduling when schedule is released to PRN staff, depending on availability.

Floating requirements Mother Baby. Basic assessments. Documenting feeds/wets. Expect to know how to draw bili, if needed. Admission RN available during the daytime that will do PKUs.