Travel Nurse RN - Labor & Delivery - $3,000 to $3,350 per week in Santa Maria, CA

Registered Nurse (RN) | Labor & Delivery
Location: Santa Maria, CA
Agency: Aptiva Corp
Pay: $3,000 to $3,350 per week
Shift Information: Nights - 3 days x 12 hours
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Start Date: ASAP

About the Position

Unit Notes: 
Trauma Level: 3
Charting System: Cerner
Unit: L&D/PP
# L&D Beds: 14 beds
# triage beds: 6 triage beds, 2 OR suites
# Postpartum beds: 28 beds
# births per day, per year: 250 births per month
Certs: ACLS, BLS, Fetal HM - AWOHNN (adv) for L&D, BLS, NRP required for Postpartum
Ratios: 2 to 1 laboring, follow AWOHNN guidelines, 1 to 4 couplet care
FHM System: Fetal Link
Charge Nurse: yes - they try not to take a patient assignment
Nurse Aides/OB tech: OB tech - yes, day and night shift
Weekend Requirement: every other
Call Requirement: no - may have to be on standby
Holidays: they will work them in with perm staff rotation
Tele: Phillips
Vents: No
OB/Neonataologist in house: No but available if needed
IV Team: No
RT 24/7: Yes
Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
Shifts: 12 hr shifts - 7a-7p or 7p-7a
C-section experience required: Will be required to circulate for c-sections. Scrubbing experience is preferred.
Floating: They will have to float to postpartum, PP will NOT have to float to L&D
Common diagnosis / Types of patients: any gestational age, antepartum, high risk deliveries, substance abuse, pre-eclampsia, insulin dependent diabetics