RN Family Birth Center

Registered Nurse (RN)

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

Responsibilities include:

• Adhering to the department's and hospital's policies and procedures, including safety, risk management and regulatory standards. Keeping abreast of trends, developments and regulatory requirements impacting matters within designated scope of responsibility.
• Administering, overseeing and documenting the administration of medications as ordered by the healthcare practitioner and in accordance with hospital policy.
• Assessing patient to include physical, psychosocial, cultural, behavioral/emotional, developmental and spiritual needs. Gathering data relevant for patient care. Implementing appropriate patient interventions and evaluating outcomes. Planning care appropriately based on needs identified during initial and on-going assessments. Providing holistic, comprehensive, and professional nursing care to patient within the scope of practice. Preparing patient for discharge and assisting with coordinating post discharge needs.
• Demonstrating cultural sensitivity and competence: Demonstrates proper use of available communication tools/materials for effective communication and understands how the culture(s) of patient populations can affect communication, collaboration and the provision of care, treatment and services. Patient Populations Served: Demonstrates knowledge and proper skills associated with the department's defined specific populations served.
• Demonstrating competent professional practice and engaging in opportunities for professional growth. Demonstrating self accountability to meet stated deadlines for all mandatory requirements.
• Documenting care delivered and patient status utilizing the nursing process in accordance with FHS standards of care, for example, changes in patient condition, patient responses to intervention and reassessments of pertinent findings. Receiving and assuring appropriateness, accuracy, timeliness and execution of physician orders.

Job Requirements Required:

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing, upon hire and
• One to two years Med/Surg experience with completion of Mother/Baby Education program or
• New graduate with completion of senior practicum in L&D, Mother/Baby unit or nursery.
• Registered Nurse: WA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 6 - months and

Preferred:

• Bachelors Of Science Nursing and One year of related work experience in an acute care setting, upon hire and
• Previous Mother-Baby experience or
• Electronic Fetal Monitoring, upon hire

Where You'll Work:

Virginia Mason Franciscan Health has a rich history of providing exceptional healthcare, dating back to 1891. Building upon a legacy of compassionate care and innovation, our organization has evolved over the years through strategic partnerships and integrations to expand our reach and services across the Puget Sound area. Today, as Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, we remain deeply committed to healing the whole person body, mind, and spirit in the communities we serve. This commitment is strengthened by the diverse expertise and shared values brought together through our growth. Our dedicated providers offer a full spectrum of health care services, from routine wellness to complex disease management, all grounded in rigorous research and education. Our comprehensive network of 10 hospitals and nearly 300 care sites strategically located across the greater Puget Sound region reflects our ongoing commitment to accessibility and comprehensive care. We are proud of our pioneering medical advances and numerous awards and accreditations that reflect our dedication to excellence. When you join Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, you become part of a team that delivers top-quality, professional healthcare in modern, well-equipped facilities, and contributes to a legacy of service built on collaboration and shared purpose.