Registered Nurse RN Postpartum

About the role

Banner University Medical Center-Tucson is an academic, Level 1 Trauma hospital in Southern Arizona. As a nurse in the Antepartum/Postpartum unit, you will care for moms and babies in a 24-bed space. Banner Health’s maternity team delivers more than 30,000 babies annually across its hospitals, offering complete maternity services and specialized programs to ensure the highest quality of care and best birthing experience possible. The hospital is nationally recognized for patient care, teaching, and research, and is consistently ranked among the nation’s top hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. It is also Magnet-recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and home to Diamond Children’s, a leader in specialized pediatric services.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural and discharge planning needs.
• Review patient history and physical with patient/family and ensure completion within appropriate timeframe.
• Review diagnostics and laboratory data and report abnormal results to physicians and other caregivers.
• Complete assessments and reassessments according to patient need and policy.
• Formulate and initiate a plan of care, including discharge planning, in collaboration with the patient, family, and health care team.
• Implement the plan of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation, and supervision of the health care team.
• Evaluate patient and family response to care and teaching, revising the plan as needed.
• Document assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation in the patient record in a legible, timely manner consistent with policy and standards.
• Provide care based on the best available evidence and participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Promote continuity of care by accurately communicating patient status to other caregivers.
• Interact and participate in the education, role development, and orientation of facility personnel, patients, students, families, and visitors.
• Promote/support growth of others through precepting and mentoring when appropriate.
• Contribute to excellent patient outcomes through timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and safe care.
• Actively participate in the improvement of national nursing quality indicators and outcomes.
• Interact with all levels of staff, physicians, patients, families, and external contacts regarding patient care.
• Synthesize and prioritize data from multiple sources to support the human response of the patient and family to changes in health status.

Requirements

• Current, valid RN license in state of practice, temporary/interim RN license, or compact RN licensure for current state of practice.
• BLS certification required.
• Prior RN Postpartum or Labor and Delivery experience.
• Must maintain clinical performance competencies appropriate to the area, demonstrated through annual validations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Professional certification preferred.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Schedule

Part-time positions available. Weekends and holidays are required on a rotating basis. Self-scheduling tool available for shift and weekend coverage. Day, night, and weekend shift hours available.

Pay

$3/hour weekend shift differential and +18% night shift differential.

Benefits

Banner Health offers the Registered Nurse Clinical Ladder with 5 levels of compensation incentives to calibrate expertise and education into system-based levels of achievement.