RN Labor Delivery Resource

Job Summary

You will deliver compassionate, high-quality care that impacts patients' well-being and recovery. You will assess patients, develop care plans, collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, and ensure effective implementation of care.

Responsibilities

• Provides effective, comprehensive evidence-based nursing care to achieve desired health outcomes.
• Organizes and prioritizes patient care activities balanced with the needs and comfort of the patient.
• Collaborates with other disciplines to ensure comprehensive, holistic, and effective plan of care.
• Applies knowledge of current practice standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
• Demonstrates accountability for ethical behavior and supports ethical practice by addressing or escalating issues.
• Serves as a patient advocate.
• Completes patient assessments competently.
• Affirms physical, emotional, psychosocial, spiritual, educational, discharge, and cultural needs.
• Develops an individualized plan of care based on assessment of the patient.
• Coordinates with other disciplines when indicated.
• Prioritizes care needs and sets measurable goals and time frames.
• Includes patient and family in the planning.
• Implements interventions based on nursing and medical plan of care.
• Manages patient population, diagnosis, and age-specific needs through appropriate adaptation of interventions.
• Appropriately utilizes equipment and supplies (including following established policies, procedures, and protocols governing the transport, handling, and storage of intravenous fluids).
• Updates the plan of care to reflect current care needs.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize and adapt to changes in patients' condition (LOC change, vital signs, test results) in a timely and clinically appropriate manner.

Requirements

• Required: 6 months acute care experience in labor and delivery, 5 years nursing experience, current and active California license as a Registered Nurse, AHA Basic Fetal Monitoring, NRP, ACLS, BLS certifications required, Moderate Sedation for all monitored areas.
• Preferred: 1 year of acute care experience in labor and delivery, Bachelors of Nursing.

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1926, Dignity Health - Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is a 334-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital. Serving over 70,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III NICU, heart care, wound care, and surgical services. Additionally, Glendale Memorial Hospital has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and a SRC Center of Excellence for Robotic Surgery and Colorectal Surgery. One Community. One Mission. One California.

Pay Range

$57.42 - $77.97 /hour