Registered Nurse (Experienced Labor & Delivery RN)-$10,000 Sign On (2025-0795)

Overview Job Title: Registered Nurse (Experienced Labor & Delivery RN) – Req: 2025-0795 Location: VMC Main Campus Department: Birth Center Shift: Nights Type: Full Time

FTE: 0.9

Hours: See above if applicable City State: Renton, WA Category: Nursing Salary Range: Min $46.94 - Max $85.76/hrly. DOE Job Description The position description is a guide to the critical duties and essential functions of the job, not an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, qualifications, physical demands, and work environment conditions. Position descriptions are reviewed and revised to meet the changing needs of the organization. TITLE: Registered Nurse JOB OVERVIEW: The staff RN is a licensed professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. This individual provides safe, quality care to these patients utilizing the nursing process as the basis for clinical practice. DEPARTMENT: Any patient care area. WORK HOURS: Assigned tour of duty hours. REPORTS TO: Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager Prerequisites BSN preferred. Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of Washington. Successful completion of a graduate nurse residency program orientation or six months' experience as a Registered Nurse. AHA BLS for healthcare providers required. General Qualifications Demonstrates leadership skills with ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, innovation, and systems thinking. Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form. Adheres to the Professional Appearance Policy. Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community-centered, compassionate, and meets the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations. Ability to communicate and work effectively with the physical and emotional development of all age groups. Practices in a caring environment with excellent customer service skills. Functions within ANA Standards and Nurse Practice Act. Ability to access information and communicate in an electronic environment including but not limited to the use of order entry, e-mail, and computer documentation skills. Self-directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education and research. Essential Responsibilities And Competencies Assesses, guides, directs, and facilitates workflow on the unit. Recognizes when the charge nurse should assume a patient assignment and assumes that role. Makes staff assignments that reflect patient acuity, continuity of patient care, staff competency and the necessity of admit, transfer and discharge activity on all clinical units. Mentors staff, float, and agency personnel regarding unit/department/hospital policies, procedures/standards and annual goals and objectives. Integrates new staff and agency staff into the culture of the unit. Functions as a leader and role model for clinical staff. Acts as clinical resource to unit staff and demonstrates safe use of patient care equipment. Identifies resource RN for LPN, PCA, and MST as necessary. Monitors and evaluates nursing care given to each patient by direct observation, consultation, and patient rounds. Assesses unit/environmental safety during patient rounds and reports/corrects deficiencies. Maintains awareness of Joint Commission standards, state codes, and practice acts. Monitors documentation, compliance with standards, and facilitates rapid turn-around cycles. Demonstrates excellent customer service skills. Responds to patient and family concerns/complaints. Reports significant events to administrative supervisors/manager and activates the chain of command per policy. Provides input into performance appraisal of clinical staff on assigned shift by documenting feedback and/or communicating concerns to manager/supervisor. Evaluates and provides adequate coverage for breaks. Maintains fiscal responsibility by monitoring and adjusting staffing during shift and determines staffing needs for the following shift by using clinical judgment. Accepts personal responsibility to maintain competencies for direct patient care and team leadership. Collaborates with bed placement and the clinical resource to ensure clinical placement is expedited. Unit Specific Requirements Emergency Department RN: ACLS & PALS within 3 months of hire; NIHSS within 3 months; TNCC within 12 months; ENPC within 12 months; 1 year ED experience preferred or ED residency. PACU: ACLS & PALS within 3 months; NIHSS within 3 months; TNCC within 12 months; ENPC within 12 months; prior ED/ICU or 2 years med/surg with cardiac telemetry preferred. Perioperative Resource Team: ACLS & PALS within 3 months; orientation within 12 months; admit and discharge ACLS & PALS within 3 months; 1 year RN experience in perianesthesia, admit & discharge. Main OR Perioperative: OR nurse residency or 1 year OR experience. Critical Care: ACLS within 3 months; NIHSS within 3 months; minimum 1 year in Emergency/Critical Care nursing. Critical Care Resident: ACLS and NIHSS within 3 months. Labor & Delivery: NRP within 3 months; ACLS within 3 months; Fetal Monitoring Certification (AWHONN or C-EFM); 6 months L&D experience as RN or residency. Labor & Delivery Resident: NRP within 3 months; ACLS within 3 months; fetal monitoring certification within 3 months. Mother Baby: NRP within 3 months; 6 months Mother Baby experience or residency. Mother Baby Resident: NRP within 3 months. Medical-Surgical: 3 months Med/Surg RN experience or residency. Medical-Surgical Float Pool: ECG interpretation within 3 months; 1 year Med/Surg experience. Medical-Surgical Neurology/Stroke Unit: ECG interpretation within 3 months; NIHSS within 3 months; 8 hours Neuro education annually. Surgical Joint/Spine: Orthopedic certification within 3 years. Minimum of one year Medical-Surgical experience preferred. Job Qualifications General qualifications as listed above (leadership, communication, policy adherence, patient-centered care, ANA standards, electronic documentation, continuing education). Seniorities Seniority level: Mid-Senior level Employment Type Full-time Job Function Health Care Provider Industries: Hospitals and Health Care Note: This refinement preserves the essential content while presenting it in clean, accessible HTML using only allowed tags. #J-18808-Ljbffr Valley Medical Center