Registered Nurse RN Labor and Delivery

About the role

Banner Payson Medical Center is a full-service health care facility in Payson, Arizona. It offers extensive services including cardiopulmonary/respiratory, emergency, intensive care, imaging, labor and delivery, laboratory, surgery, and rehabilitation. The position is a full-time 36-hour night shift position.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural and discharge planning needs.
• Reviews patient history and physical with patient/family and assures completion within appropriate timeframe.
• Reviews available information obtained by other health care team members.
• Reviews diagnostics and laboratory data and reports abnormal results to the physician(s) and other appropriate caregivers.
• Completes assessment and reassessments according to patient need and as outlined in policy.
• Formulates a plan of care, including the discharge plan, utilizing assessment data and patient, family and health team input.
• Initiates a plan of care based on patient-specific needs, assessment data and the medical plan of care.
• Plans care in collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Evaluates the patient's and family's response to care and teaching, and revises the plan of care as needed.
• Evaluates patient progress towards goals and expected outcomes in collaboration with other health care team members.
• Evaluates patient's response and the effectiveness of patient teaching.
• Documents assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in the patient record.
• Provides care based on the best evidence available and may participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Participates in unit or facility shared leadership.
• Interacts and participates in the education, role development, and orientation of facility personnel, patients, students, families and visitors.
• Contributes to society through activities that lead to excellent patient outcomes through timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and safe care.

Requirements

• Must possess a current, valid RN license in state of practice, temporary/interim RN license in state of practice, or compact RN licensure for current state of practice.
• BLS certification is required.
• Additional certification or continuing education may be required based on area of practice.

Qualifications

• Must maintain clinical performance competencies appropriate to the area in which they work as demonstrated through annual validations.
• One year experience in an acute care hospital setting is desired.

Skills

• Ability to assess patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural and discharge planning needs.
• Ability to review patient history and physical with patient/family and assure completion within appropriate timeframe.
• Ability to review diagnostics and laboratory data and report abnormal results to the physician(s).
• Ability to formulate a plan of care, including the discharge plan, utilizing assessment data and patient, family and health team input.
• Ability to initiate a plan of care based on patient-specific needs, assessment data and the medical plan of care.
• Ability to collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to evaluate the patient's and family's response to care and teaching, and revise the plan of care as needed.
• Ability to evaluate patient progress towards goals and expected outcomes in collaboration with other health care team members.
• Ability to evaluate patient's response and the effectiveness of patient teaching.
• Ability to document assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in the patient record.
• Ability to provide care based on the best evidence available and participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Ability to participate in unit or facility shared leadership.
• Ability to interact and participate in the education, role development, and orientation of facility personnel, patients, students, families and visitors.
• Ability to contribute to society through activities that lead to excellent patient outcomes through timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and safe care.

Benefits

The position offers a 20K HIRE-ON INCENTIVE AND RELOCATION BONUS for experienced candidates.

Pay

The pay for this position is negotiable and competitive, based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This is a full-time 36-hour night shift position.