Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery

About This Role

Registered Nurses caring for patients during labor and delivery are key to providing high-quality care, from the antepartum to the postpartum period. This role involves adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes, and resolving patient needs through multidisciplinary team strategies. It suits a nurse committed to patient safety and excellent care in a hospital setting.

Responsibilities

• Assure quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards, measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards, making or recommending necessary adjustments, and following hospital and nursing standards of care set by the state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations
• Resolve patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies
• Protect patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
• Provide care for patients in the antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum period
• Triage OBED pregnant patients adhering to Medical Screening exam guidelines
• Interpret fetal strip using external and internal monitoring methods
• Manage high-risk patients including but not limited to: preterm labor, preeclampsia/eclampsia, gestational diabetes, placenta previa, and placenta abruption
• Perform and document patient assessments and reassessments following Nursing and Departmental P/P, using appropriate techniques for data collection and analysis, at regular and indicated intervals
• Provide IV therapy management and perform venipuncture as needed for lab draws per physician orders

Requirements

• Associate
• BSN required within 3 years of employment
• Ability to perform as scrub tech during delivery required within 1 year of employment
• RN license eligible to practice in the state Texas
• BLS required from an HCA approved vendor
• NRP and ACLS within first 90 days of hire
• Specialty Certification Electronic Fetal Monitoring (C-EFM) is required within 6 months after becoming eligible and maintained
• AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring is required until eligible for C-EFM

Nice to have:

• BSN preferred
• Minimum of two years
• Professional Nursing Organization membership encouraged

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence