RN Mother-Baby

As a Mother Baby Registered Nurse at HCA Memorial Health University Medical Center in historic Savannah, GA, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary and Qualifications

As a Mother/Baby Registered Nurse, you will be responsible for caring for both postpartum mothers and their newborns, typically during the first 24 to 72 hours after delivery. You will monitor vital signs, assist with physical recovery, provide lactation support, and teach parents essential newborn care before they go home.
Mother-baby RNs perform a unique dual-patient role. Instead of caring for a mother or baby separately, they manage a "couplet" to ensure both the mother's recovery and the infant's health are progressing safely. 

Daily Responsibilities include: 

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  • Maternal Care: Monitoring the mother's uterine healing, assessing surgical incisions (for C-sections), managing pain, and screening for postpartum complications like hemorrhage or mood disorders. 
  • Newborn Assessments: Checking the baby's vital signs, weight, and blood sugar, performing routine blood draws, and assisting with the baby’s first bath. 
  • Patient Education: Teaching new parents how to bathe their baby, change diapers, swaddle, and safely feed the infant. 
  • Breastfeeding Support: Helping mothers with latching, positioning, and milk expression, while troubleshooting common breastfeeding challenges.
  • Emotional Support: Acting as a reassuring presence to help families bond and adjust to the significant life change of a new baby.

What qualifications you will need:

• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Neonate Resuscitation must be obtained within 90 days of employment start date
• STABLE must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse - clear and active GA or compact state license required 
• ASN/BSN required 
• At least one year of Womens Services/Mother Baby Nursing required 

Benefits

Memorial Health University Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• 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
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

"Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future."

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

Memorial Health University Medical Center has provided quality healthcare services since 1955, giving patients access to highly-trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 600+ bed hospital is one of the region's leading acute care facilities that serves 35 counties across southeast Georgia and southern South Carolina. Located in Savannah, Georgia, we are a regional referral center for heart care, cancer care, trauma care, children's care, high-risk pregnancies and high-risk newborn care. Our hospital includes the region's only Level I trauma center and children's hospital , as well as the Savannah campus of Mercer University School of Medicine.

At Memorial Health, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN Mother-Baby opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing, apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.