Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Plans, provides, supervises and documents professional nursing care utilizing the nursing process for patients in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures.
• Communicates and collaborates with nurses, physicians, OB Technicians and other members of the healthcare team to develop a plan of care to ensure optimal patient outcomes and continuity of care.
• Charts observations and activities related to patient care in electronic health record.
• Provides safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care for a patient population using critical thinking skills, advocacy abilities and ethical approaches.
• Guides and directs assigned unlicensed assistive personnel in delivering interdisciplinary patient care.
• Affords assessments signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition and reports changes to the physician.
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, infection control and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standards.
• Participates in Quality Assurance/Process Improvement initiatives to improve patient safety and outcomes, such as monitoring compliance of core measures, infection control practices, etc.
• Educates patient/family prior to discharge regarding the diagnosis, medication and discharge instructions.
• Collates blood specimens by venipuncture or microtechniques for laboratory analysis necessary for patient treatment and diagnosis.

Department Specific Duties And Responsibilities

• Reviews patients obstetrics gynecology history to identify risk factors.
• Fetal monitoring skills utilizing NICHD guidelines, prefer certification in Electronic Fetal Monitoring.
• Able to care for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients.
• Proficient in caring for high-risk pregnant patients.
• Able to circulate a cesarean section, tubal ligation or D&C.
• Able to react quickly and appropriately to emergent situations.
• Able to offer labor support during the intrapartum period.
• Provides infant care and education to mother/significant other or designee.
• Able to assist new mother with lactation needs.