Labor and Delivery Float Nurse

About This Role

This nursing role involves providing direct patient care within the scope of the Registered Nurse Practice Act, focusing on the needs of perinatal, postnatal, and GYN patients and their families. The position requires floating to various women's health units, including Labor & Delivery, Mother/Baby, High Risk OB, and OB/GYN ER.

Responsibilities

• Perform direct patient care within the scope of the Registered Nurse Practice Act
• Utilize therapeutic communication in daily practice
• Maintain a safe therapeutic environment
• Identify nursing problems as they relate to the individual needs of the patient
• Plan individualized patient care utilizing an interdisciplinary approach
• Participate in performance improvement activities
• Provide care and coordinate participation that fosters the goals of the hospital's mission and vision statement
• When acting in charge nurse role, be responsible for day-to-day activities to ensure the delivery of quality patient care in a therapeutic environment
• Make staff assignments based on patient need and the skill of the staff
• Serve as role models and clinical resource for the staff
• Respond in a timely manner to requests for information or follow-up with physician, staff or patient issues
• Utilize the nursing process: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation to individualize holistic care to meet the needs of perinatal, postnatal and GYN patients and their families
• Demonstrate knowledge of human growth and development, assessment, range of treatment, and care of patients appropriate to the ages of patients served
• Provide care – demonstrating knowledge of pregnancy, labor and birth with associated complications
• Provide care – demonstrating knowledge of GYN complications
• Deliver care with respect to individual's spiritual and cultural needs
• Demonstrate competency in peri-operative care
• Demonstrate competency with PACU recovery for perinatal patients
• Integrate the various methods of patient care documentation
• Provide patient education and documentation of understanding
• Demonstrate competency in fetal monitoring

Requirements

• Graduate of an Accredited School of Nursing
• Current TN RN licensure
• American Heart Association BLS certification
• Current ACLS & PALS certification or within 6 months of hire
• Current NRP certifications or within 6 months of hire
• Current AWHONN fetal monitoring Certification or within 1 year of hire or Certified Electronic Fetal Monitoring (CEFM) after eligibility
• 2 years of Labor and Delivery experience required