RN OB Flex Team Nights

Description

This position requires 12 months RN experience.

About the role

The OB Flex Team is a highly skilled group of nurses who float across all obstetric and neonatal areas to support staffing needs on both the Downtown and West Campuses. This team provides flexible, cross-trained coverage to the NICU, Mother Baby, Labor and Delivery, and OB Emergency Department/Antepartum units, ensuring seamless patient care during periods of high census, acuity, or staffing shortages. By adapting quickly to unit needs, the OB Flex Team enhances continuity of care, supports frontline staff, and helps maintain safe, high-quality outcomes for mothers and newborns.

Responsibilities

• Provides individualized, high-quality nursing care to patients of all ages.
• Uses a team approach to delegate and coordinate patient care at admission, transfer, and discharge.
• Independently delivers nursing care using the Nurse Practice Act, Mercy Medical Center policies, nursing standards, ethical principles, and professional judgment.
• Works rotating shifts, weekends, and holidays as scheduled.
• Provides nursing care across all units within trained specialty.
• Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.
• Affirms patient comfort through assessment, planning, and implementation of nursing care.
• Practices safe patient handling techniques.
• Evaluates assigned patients and provides ongoing treatment.
• Anticipates, identifies, and responds to educational and emotional needs of patients and families.
• Guides and directs healthcare personnel (i.e. Patient Care Technicians) in caring for patients.
• Maintains knowledge of equipment set-up, maintenance, and use (i.e., IV pumps, monitoring equipment, and drainage devices).
• Utilizes safeguards such as IV pump drug library and monitor alarms whenever available to maximize patient safety.
• Initiates emergency support measures (i.e., cardiopulmonary resuscitation, protecting patient from injury).
• Serves in a charge/leadership role based on skill and unit needs.
• Takes assigned call as defined in unit policy.
• Assists with patient care duties/tasks (i.e., emptying drainage devices, ambulating, and hygiene).
• Assists with clerical duties (i.e., maintenance of chart, patient record, and answering phones and call lights).
• Maintains patient care supplies, equipment, and environment.
• Provides orientation/education for staff, students, and other hospital and community organizations as requested.
• Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Requirements

• Possession of a current or compact state license as a Registered Nurse issued/defined by the State of Iowa.
• BSN preferred.
• Proof of completion of Mandatory Reporter – Child and/or Dependent Adult Abuse training within three (3) months of hire.
• Basic Life Support certified within six (6) weeks of hire.
• Acceptable credentialing bodies and certifications include American Heart Association Basic Life Support.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support certified within nine (9) months of hire, if required by your department.

Qualifications

• Comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Personal presence that is characterized by a sense of honesty, integrity, and caring with the ability to inspire and motivate others to promote the philosophy, mission, vision, goals, and values of Trinity Health.

Skills

• Collaborative teamwork.
• Safe patient handling techniques.
• Emergency support measures.
• Leadership and charge responsibilities.
• Orientation/education skills.

Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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