Registered Nurse - OB Nights

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishes patients care needs and determines what care is needed to meet those needs based on Nursing Standards of Care.
• Affirms and establishes an order of priority of the care given and delegates care to the appropriate personnel within their scope of practice and licensure.
• Cares for a variety of Med/Surg, Obstetrical, Postpartum, and Newborn patients.
• Cares for OB patients with highly acute needs: e.g., preterm labor, PIH, Pitocin infusion, diabetes, placental abruption, and epidural or intrathecal anesthesia.
• Assists physicians with the care of unstable newborns until transport team arrives.
• Administers medication to all patients on unit (newborns to geriatric).
• Performs vaginal exams.
• Interprets fetal monitor tracings and neonatal monitor readings and takes appropriate actions when indicated.
• Accompanies newborn, obstetrical, and post-partum patients on ambulance transfers when deemed necessary by House Supervisor or DON.
• Prepares OB patients for planned or emergency cesarean sections.
• Prepares birthing bed or delivery table and assists physicians with vaginal deliveries.
• Stabilizes high risk OB patients using appropriate measures until physician arrives.
• Works closely with physician to keep him/her updated on the patient’s condition.
• Administers and monitors blood and blood products per hospital policy and procedure.
• Demonstrates a complete knowledge of the location, care, and operation of unit equipment.
• Participates in patient and family teaching.
• Initiates or assists with emergency measures for sudden adverse development in patients, such as cardiac arrest.
• Affords assistance in updating and revising the policy and procedure manuals as necessary.
• Rotates shifts as required including weekends and holidays.
• Participates in all hospital wide PI activities.
• Reports all abnormal lab and other diagnostic studies to physician.
• Supervises the economical utilization of supplies and ensures that equipment is maintained in a clean and safe manner during his/her shift.
• Prepares and delivers verbal shift report when his/her shift has ended.
• Updates skills by attending in-service and staff meetings.
• Maintains certification and licensure as required by the State of Mississippi Board of Nursing.
• Uses CDC Infection Control Procedures when caring for a patient as well as safe practices for their own personal safety.
• Floats to another unit on occasion to work within their scope of practice, if deemed necessary by the House Supervisor and/or DON.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited School of Nursing with an RN degree.
• Current certification in BLS.
• Current certification in ACLS (recommended).
• Current certification in PALS (recommended).
• Ability to read, and interpret policy and procedures, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to write reports.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from patients, doctors, and the general public.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, volume, and dosage calculations.