Registered Nurse, Labor & Delivery- Per diem, Rotating

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives.

Join a dynamic, high-acuity Labor & Delivery team

at BIDMC, where approximately 4,800 babies are born each year. Our unit delivers compassionate, patient-centered care across a full range of childbirth experiences—from low-intervention births to complex medical and obstetric cases.

About the Unit

• 14 Labor, Delivery, Recovery (LDR) rooms
• 3 dedicated obstetric operating rooms
• 5-bed Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
• 8-bay OB/GYN triage area

The Care You’ll Provide

• Deliver patient- and family-centered care across all stages of labor and birth
• Support patients with conditions such as diabetes, preeclampsia, and placental disorders
• Advocate for clinical excellence, safety, and informed decision-making
• Adapt quickly in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment

Team & Culture

• Strong, collaborative partnerships with an interdisciplinary care team
• A shared commitment to clinical excellence, professional growth, and accountability
• A respectful, inclusive workplace that values professionalism, teamwork, and mutual support

Job Description

• Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments. Responsible for systematically assessing the health care needs of individuals or groups and for the formulation of a care plan, its implementation and evaluation.
• Carefully coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care.
• Works in a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families. Develops relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect. Communicates effectively in the exchange of information. Demonstrates the ability to act as a patient advocate.
• Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit based competencies. Identifies needs for continued growth and development in conjunction with the unit based educator or clinical nurse specialist. Participates in activities that contribute to professional development of self. May participate in quality improvement activities.
• Demonstrates a commitment to patients, staff, and to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The individual nursing practice reflects the goals of the Medical Center. Demonstrates responsibility and accountability for own nursing practice and patient safety

Education

• Graduate of an accredited Nursing Program required.
• Baccalaureate degree in Nursing strongly preferred.

Experience

• 1-3 years related work experience required.

Licenses/Certifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse required.
• American Heart Association – Basic Life support Certificate required.

Competencies

• Decision Making: Ability to make decisions that are guided by general instructions and practices requiring some interpretation.
• Problem Solving: Ability to address problems that are varied, requiring analysis or interpretation of the situation using direct observation, knowledge and skills based on general precedents.
• Independence of Action: Ability to follow precedents and procedures. May set priorities and organize work within general guidelines. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations. Work progress is monitored by supervisor/manager.
• Written Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in written English with internal and external customers.
• Oral Communications: Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
• Knowledge: Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.
• Team Work: Ability to act as a team leader for small projects or work groups, creating a collaborative and respectful team environment and improving workflows. Results may impact the operations of one or more departments.
• Customer Service: Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.

Age Based Competencies

• Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Neonatal: Birth to 6 months, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 – 60 years, Elderly: 60 – over.

Social/Environmental Requirements

• Work requires periods of close attention to work with out interruption.
• Constant response to changing circumstances and using new information to adjust approach and to quickly respond to new needs.
• Potential exposure to adverse environmental conditions
• Daily: Protective equipment required (Respirator, earplugs, mask, gloves, eyewear etc), Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or airborne pathogens, Potential exposure to infectious diseases and/or bloodborne pathogens.

Physical Requirements

• Medium work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally and or up to 20 pounds of force frequently. Job is physical in nature and employee needs to stand and/or move around through the majority of their shift.
• Constant walking, Endurance-working up to 3-4 hours without a break, frequent standing, bending neck, bending waist, twisting neck, twisting waist, maintain crouch for > 5 minutes, Repetition crouch (>2 times/minutes), Power Grasping using both hands, Fine Manipulation using both hands, Pushing/Pulling using both hands, Keyboard use, Reaching-above shoulder height, Reaching-below shoulder height, Lifting and carrying items weighing up to 50 lbs, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 100 pounds without assistance, Pull up and/or reposition patient weighing up to 250 pounds with assistance, Pushing items weighing up to 50 lbs, Push a wheelchair or wheeled bed containing a patient weighing up to 250 pounds, with assistance.

Pay Range

$38.00 – $98.19