Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery

About This Role

This night-shift position in the Labor and Delivery department at the Colorado Fetal Care Center (CFCC) at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) provides family-centered care for expecting mothers with fetal conditions. The Clinical Nurse II assumes an active role in clinical education for patients, families, and staff, working effectively within inter-professional teams to achieve quality patient care. The role integrates current evidence with clinical expertise to deliver optimal healthcare, using data to monitor care outcomes and improve quality and safety.

Responsibilities

• Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs
• Deliver patient and family-centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, evidence-based care
• Actively anticipate changes in patient outcomes/unit needs in the provision of care
• Guide care by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care
• Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences, and expressed needs as part of implementation of care plan, evaluation of care, and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team
• Initiate and anticipate individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach
• Apply communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care
• Present own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions
• Collaborate with team members in shared decision-making
• Identify key concepts of research and evidence-based practice
• Participate in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice
• Recognize and communicate the need for revision of hospital and departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines, and/or measures for clinical practice evaluation
• Recognize the standard of care provided by the applicable professional organization and/or association
• Utilize outcome data at the patient level to make care decisions
• Participate in quality improvement activities and use quality measures to understand individual and unit performance
• Utilize and discuss policy, procedures, and guidelines to support practice
• Communicate observations or concerns related to unsafe situations that pose a risk to patients, families, or the healthcare team
• Recognize and apply information and technology of patient and unit outcomes to facilitate communication, clinical decision-making, error prevention, and care coordination
• Navigate and document in the EMR to support patient care