NURSE (INPATIENT CLINICAL/OB-GYN)

Job Title

Provide comprehensive professional nursing care to OB/GYN patients and their newborns with medical conditions ranging from routine care to those having complex complications requiring sophisticated, highly technical care and treatment.

Administer oxygen, IV fluids, amnioinfusion, blood products, and prescribed medications.

Initiate intravenous and indwelling catheters, and patient-controlled analgesia pumps.

Set up and operate specialized monitoring equipment including blood pressure monitoring, pulse oximetry, fetal heart rate monitors (internal and external), neonatal resuscitation equipment, cardiac monitoring, and infant warmers.

Provide perioperative care to include cesarean sections and additional obstetric surgical procedures as needed (i.e., dilatation and curettage, cervical cerclage, cesarean-hysterectomy).

Serve as subject matter expert and consultant for nursing staff and healthcare teammates in other areas of the hospital.

Maintain lines and dressings in accordance with infection control policies and procedures, and discontinues invasive lines as guided by policy.

Assist anesthesia providers with placement of epidural catheters and induction of general anesthesia.

Serve as Charge Nurse on a rotational basis.

Assign duties and delegate patient care to other registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, operating room technicians, and medical assistants.

Develop nursing care plans and procedures, setting standards of care, prescribing special care and identifying specific nursing problems for all patients.

Provide evidence-based instructions and education to patient/significant other and/or family members/caregivers.

Provide support to patients suffering from perinatal loss through the delivery of bereavement care.

Serve as a mentor, preceptor, and role model to experienced and fully trained obstetrical nurses as well as those not fully trained.