RN Labor and Delivery

Job Summary

You will deliver compassionate, high-quality care that impacts patients' well-being and recovery. You will provide individualized, comprehensive care, make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and implement patient care plans. You will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team in a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Provides safe therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way, incorporating differences into the provision of care.
• Incorporates knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum, including patient and family education.
• Performs psychosocial/physiologic assessments that integrate changing data and formulates a plan of care based on trends of similar patients, including patient education and discharge planning.
• Collaborates with patients/families to identify realistic desired outcomes.
• Administers prescribed medications and intravenous solutions according to standards of care and hospital protocols.
• Affirms pain levels in all patients using a "0-10" or other approved scale to promote comfort and enable patients to participate in their healing. Provides timely/appropriate assessment/intervention. Identifies comfort function goals with patients.
• Tailors and prioritizes caring practice to individual needs, including cultural/ethical/spiritual needs.
• Participates in the planning of routine transitional health care needs, adapting standards and guidelines for individual patients.

Requirements

• Associate of Nursing or nursing diploma
• Six months of recent L&D hospital experience, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: CA, upon hire
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire
• PREFERRED: Bachelors of Nursing, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1941, Dignity Health - Dominican Hospital is a 188-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Cruz, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including heart care, orthopedics, and a Family Birthing Center. Additionally, Dominican Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and has been awarded the AMA/ASA’s Get the Guidelines - Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement, recognizing the hospital’s commitment to providing the best stroke care.