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Registered Nurse Labor Delivery Recovery Postpardum (Nights) PRN

Decypher · Fort Belvoir, VA · 3 days ago
Healthcare$79/hrFull-time

Job Summary

The Labor Delivery Recovery Postpartum (LDRP) Registered Nurse provides comprehensive, patient-centered care for women and newborns in labor, delivery, and postpartum settings, including monitoring, interventions, and education.

Required Qualifications

  • Education: Associates, or bachelor’s degree in nursing from an accredited college or university. (ACEN or CCNE)

  • Work Experience: One year Labor Delivery Recovery Postpartum or Labor & Delivery experience, with no more than 12 months since last work assignment.

  • Licenses: Current unrestricted RN license in one of the 50 US States and/or territories.

  • Certifications: Basic Life Support (BLS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Provider-Advanced (NRP), preferred.

  • US Citizenship required.

Key Responsibilities

  • Perform monitoring of triage patients, including continuous fetal monitoring, spontaneous rupture of membrane check, labor check, prolonged monitoring, rule out pre-term labor, decreased fetal movement, and pre-eclampsia.

  • Monitor patients, including continuous fetal monitoring, vital signs, labor checks, and cervical examinations.

  • Provide intravenous management (fluids, Pitocin, MgSO4, antibiotics, blood products) and provide pain management. Monitor patient status on continuous laboring epidurals, intravenous narcotics, and provide emotional support.

  • Assist provider with inductions (cervical ripening, artificial rupture of membranes, Pitocin).

  • Assist provider with vaginal delivery procedures (pushing, delivery, recovery). Assist provider with operative vaginal delivery procedures (vacuum, forceps).

  • Perform pre-op for Cesarean-sections (C-section) (shave-prep, Foley catheter intravenous bolus, and emotional support).

  • Perform procedures for transition of normal newborn (bath, shots, assessment, and breastfeeding assistance).

  • Provide stabilization for transport of high-risk patients (MgSO4, dexamethasone, antibiotics, and emotional support).

  • Provide patient and family teaching.

  • Maintain accurate and current notes in the electronic medical records of all patients cared for, as required.

Work Environment & Schedule

  • Night shift: 6:45pm to 7:15am coverage, Minimum of 4 shifts per month to include weekends and holiday rotation.

  • This position is at Fort Belvoir, VA.

Compensation

$79.00 per hour plus H&W.

Physical Requirements

  • Must be able to stand and walk for extended periods (up to 12-hour shifts), frequently lift and reposition patients (up to 50 lbs with assistance as needed), and perform physical tasks such as bending, stooping, pushing, and pulling equipment.

  • Requires sufficient strength, stamina, manual dexterity, and sensory ability (vision and hearing) to provide patient care, respond to emergencies, and work effectively in a fast-paced Labor, Delivery, Recovery, and Postpartum environment.

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