Registered Nurse II Labor and Delivery PRN

MUSC Orangeburg Her Place is a 32-bed labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, and GYN unit. We have private labor suites equipped with continuous fetal monitoring and offer family-centered care through the birthing process. We work in collaboration between patients, families, and healthcare providers to provide guidance and support through labor, birth, and postpartum recovery, including lactation, emotional, social service, and educational support to empower patients throughout the birthing process and early motherhood.

About the role

Provide professional nursing care within an assigned unit and coordinate care planning with other disciplines. This PRN (as-needed) position offers a flexible schedule with up to 19 scheduled weekly hours.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to infectious, contagious, and blood-borne diseases.
• Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances, including accidents, injuries, and illnesses.
• Exposed to unpleasant elements and subject to varying, unpredictable situations, including emergency or crisis scenarios.
• Occasionally subject to irregular hours and exposure to radiation.

Responsibilities

• Documents initial nursing histories, assesses patients’ conditions per policy requirements, and develops individual care plans considering physical, psycho-social, environmental, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Assists physicians with examinations, procedures, and other processes related to direct patient care according to established policies.
• Evaluates outcomes of patient care, consults with specialists as required, and revises nursing care processes to optimize patient outcomes.
• Coordinates discharge planning and monitors and records patients’ conditions.
• Maintains patient confidentiality.
• Formulates and implements teaching plans based on identified learning needs, including family teaching, and evaluates effectiveness.
• Coordinates patients’ ordered diagnostic and therapeutic services.
• Communicates patients’ conditions during hand-offs.
• Performs charge duties after six months of nursing experience and appropriate training, as requested by the director.
• Rounds on patients per policy to improve clinical outcomes.
• Orients or mentors new staff members.
• Listens effectively to patients to facilitate care requirements.
• Provides first-line customer service response.
• Follows MUSC Standards of Behaviors.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the director of nursing, charge nurse, or medical staff.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supervises LPNs, CNAs, WS, Techs, and MOAs.

Financial Responsibilities

• Ensures financial stewardship of supplies and resources.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand, walk, or sit for up to twelve (12) hours.
• Must be able to lift or exert energy up to 35 pounds; safe patient handling equipment is provided for transfers exceeding this limit.
• Requires use of hands, reaching, stooping, kneeling, talking, hearing, and smelling.
• Close, distance, color, peripheral, and depth perception are required for clinical tasks.

Mental Requirements

• Ability to read, interpret, and write reports, correspondence, manuals, or clinical procedures.
• Ability to perform math functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, averages, and interpreting graphs.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to multitask, prioritize responsibilities, and handle emergency or crisis situations.
• Ability to interpret verbal, nonverbal, and written instructions and deal with concrete and abstract concepts.

Population Served

This position primarily interacts with all age groups and provides direct patient care. Staff must demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the physical, psycho-social, educational, safety, and related needs of patients, families, and visitors from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing; Bachelor of Nursing degree preferred.
• Current RN license in the state of South Carolina.
• Current American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification or American Red Cross BLS for Healthcare Providers certification.
• Some clinical or hospital experience preferred but not required.

Pay

Hourly pay rate at Health-28 pay grade.