Registered Nurse Seasonal - Labor & Delivery

Summary

Captures patient care planning with other disciplines using the nursing process and critical thinking skills to maintain patient safety and well-being.

Essential Functions

• Directs patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with specialists, and adjusts care processes as needed to ensure safe patient care.
• Writes or obtains initial nursing histories, assesses patients, and develops individual care plans; maintains patient documentation.
• Reviews preceding shift reports and floor nurse reports; performs complete rounds of all units, noting patients' conditions; notifies appropriate physicians of unusual or unexpected events.
• Collaborates with interdisciplinary patient care team, implements and reinforces patient instructional needs, and provides informational material and points out special areas of concern.
• Evaluates patient care outcomes, consults with specialists as needed, and adjusts nursing care processes as necessary to ensure optimal patient care.
• Identifies and resolves workplace health and safety issues.
• Provides appropriate, direct patient care utilizing appropriate aseptic techniques.
• Manages IV lines, ensures sterile techniques, oversees patient movement and positioning, and handles patient movement and positioning to ensure medically safe patient handling.
• Performs the administration of pharmacological vasodilator medications for nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging; complies with examination competency as defined in the Imaging Services Practice Standards.
• Complies with policies, procedures, regulations, and standards and takes corrective action when violations occur.
• Orients, instructs, and educates assigned personnel.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience: One year of nursing experience in an acute care setting preferred. (Positions assigned to EP: require two (2) years of EP experience or demonstrated competency in all areas of EP Lab procedures).
• Licensure/Certification: Current RN licensure permitting work in the State of Arizona and Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required. Additional certification may be required per department.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge: Direct patient care and critical care procedures and techniques, tools, and responses required to ensure optimal patient care.
• Skills: Clear and concise communication with staff involved in critical care, and physicians to ensure proper care of patients; reading 12-lead EKG; assigned disciplines such as EP, directly involved in patient care.
• Abilities: Complete routine reports and correspondence; listen and accurately interpret others' communication or instructions to take appropriate action; speak and communicate effectively; define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; interpret an extensive variety of instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables; provide family centered developmentally appropriate care of newborns; handle emotional stress associated with caring for a critically ill newborn or neonate; formulate a plan of care and support multidisciplinary collaboration.

Unit Information

The high-acuity Labor & Delivery unit includes a dedicated triage area and supports over 5,500 deliveries annually. Nurses are cross-trained to serve as pre-op, intra-op (circulator), PACU, and newborn care nurses, providing full-spectrum care. The unit features 3 dedicated ORs for scheduled and emergent procedures, including C-sections, cerclages, hysterectomies, and D&Cs. The team includes 14 RNs certified in Inpatient Obstetrics, with additional subspecialty certifications in electronic fetal monitoring. All nurses are NRP and ACLS certified.

Benefits

• Family Style Atmosphere with a Supportive Team
• Competitive rate of pay
• 13 week contract
• Part time and full time schedules
• $750 per pay period for living expenses for seasonal employees living more than 100 miles outside of Tucson