Travel Nurse (RN) - Labor & Delivery Unit

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Required Skills/Experience:

• Newborn stabilization experience is required.
• Strong L&D experience is required, although candidates with strong recent labor experience will be considered if they also have some LDRP or postpartum experience in the last few years in addition to labor experience.
• RNs must be comfortable working with OB providers and managing laboring patients autonomously and independently, especially on nights and weekends.
• RNs are required to titrate drips.

Required Credentials:

• AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced fetal monitoring certification is required.

Special Requests:

• Any employment gaps greater than 30 days must be explained.
• The facility may make a one-off exception for a previous employee, but the exception must be approved by St. Luke’s Health System.
• The offer must be signed within 24 hours.

Unit Details:

• Case mix includes laboring and postpartum patients, well mothers and babies, and high-risk and critical patients, including inductions, hypertensive crises, and hemorrhage cases.
• The unit stabilizes patients until transfer.
• The unit does not care for twins or triplets.
• During C-sections, RNs serve as the newborn nurse and do not circulate.
• RNs care for both mother and baby as couplets during the first couple of hours.
• C-sections use a dedicated OR on the unit.
• Approximately 160 births occur per year, or about 12-17 per month.
• Common titratable or set-rate drips include magnesium and Pitocin; insulin may be used when transferring out.
• A shared hospitalist covers L&D and Med-Surg.
• A pediatric physician is present for newborn care days Monday-Friday and is on call nights and weekends.
• OB providers are not in house; they are in clinic Monday-Friday and are called in for laboring patients.
• Anesthesia is on call after hours with a 30-minute response time.
• Respiratory equipment includes nasal cannulas and nonrebreathers as needed.

Shift & Scheduling:

• Self-scheduling is available with core staff.
• Weekend requirements are equitably distributed with core staff.
• Holiday requirements are equitably distributed with core staff.

Floating Requirements:

• Floating may involve helping-hand or safety-attendant tasking rather than picking up shifts in other departments; clinicians must be comfortable floating from time to time, and the assignment should be performed safely.

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.

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