Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery

Job Summary and Qualifications

The staff nurse serves as the leader of the Nursing Care team who is ultimately responsible and accountable to the patient for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient focused, outcome oriented care.

What You Will Do in This Role

• Serves as the leader of the Nursing Care team who is ultimately responsible and accountable to the patient for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient focused, outcome oriented care.
• Through assessment of the patient’s physical, nutritional, psychosocial, spiritual, emotional, cultural, educational, and rehabilitative needs, problems are identified and documented in the clinical record and communicated to the physician, social worker, case manager, and ancillary departments when appropriate.
• Appropriate standards of care, care plans, and interventions are initiated, professionally modified, and communicated to the patient and other members of the healthcare team.
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria appropriate to the following age groups: neonate, adolescence, childbearing age adult.
• Provides patient/family health education that promotes healthy behaviors, supports recovery, and enables the patient/family to be involved in decisions about their own care.
• Patient care activities are coordinated through collaboration and planning with other members of the healthcare team.
• Physicians’ orders are carried out accurately and efficiently, and clarified when necessary.
• Adverse or sudden changes in the patient’s conditions are promptly communicated to the physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and/or family with specific and pertinent data.
• Able to identify potential or actual victims of abuse and understands the proper reporting mechanism.
• Able to recognize adverse drug reactions and demonstrates understanding of proper reporting mechanism once reaction is identified.
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to utilize the Infant Security System and HUGS tags.

Qualifications You Will Need

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date.
• Intermediate Fetal Monitoring must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date.
• Neonate Resuscitate must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date.
• Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
• At least 6 months RN experience required.
• Bachelor or Associate degree in nursing required.

Benefits

Rapides Regional Medical Center offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services.
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services.
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence.
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling.
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing.
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts.

Note

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.