Scrub Nurse (RN), Labor and Delivery, Full-Time, Nights

Scrub Nurse (RN) in Labor and Delivery

Join UChicago Medicine as a Scrub Nurse (RN) in Labor and Delivery. At the Family Birth Center, we offer a customized birth experience in the comfort and privacy of our nurturing environment. Our team of experts supports pregnant women and their partners and families with compassion and respect through pregnancy, childbirth, bonding, breastfeeding and healing. Equipped with private triage, delivery, antepartum and recovery suites, two large, private natural birthing suites, both with built-in warm water immersion (hydrotherapy) tubs, and operating rooms to support an optimized cesarean birth experience when necessary, the Family Birth Center was designed to optimize comfort, safety and options as you welcome your newest loved one.

A L&D Scrub Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse (RN) who manages patient centered care that is outcome directed. Patient centered care principles and professional nursing practice standards provide the foundation for the nurse to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the care provided. The staff nurse assumes the primary responsibility and accountability for all patient care personally provided and that provided by those directly under her/his supervision.

Essential Job Functions:

• Performs scrub functions, which involves preparing, selecting, and handling instruments and supplies used during surgical procedures, and conducting surgical counts with the circulating nurse.
• Carries out circulating functions before surgery, including preparing the operating environment, orienting and assessing the patient, reviewing the patient's medical record, consent, and surgeon's notes to ensure all prerequisites and preferences are met.
• Conducts circulating functions during surgery, such as monitoring and communicating the patient's condition, documenting interventions and activities, monitoring the sterile field, and controlling traffic into and out of the operating room. In addition, serves as PACU nurse during the recovery phase post-operatively.
• Independently performs the role of a surgical scrub within the operative field and is able to scrub in Gynecology, Obstetrical, and Urological cases, which includes but not limited to C-Sections, Hysterectomy, D&C, D&E, tubal ligations, Cystoscopy, and Cerclages.
• Applies knowledge of advanced surgical techniques and collaborates effectively with colleagues.
• Applies knowledge related to emergency and surgical procedures in the operating room.
• Demonstrates infection control practices by utilizing proper aseptic technique when dealing with blood/body fluid.
• Ensures individual OR suites, Specialty Carts, and towers are ready for use.
• Assists in the care of the surgical patient by helping the team to prepare the room, open packs, supplies, and instrument sets, and position the patient.
• Opens sterile supplies onto the sterile field before the procedure, monitors the sterile field, performs counts, and handles specimen(s).
• Highly skilled at handling emergencies, ensuring smooth communication flow of the OR schedule between departments, and proficiently operating and troubleshooting equipment.
• Collaborate seamlessly with charge nurses, leadership, Supply Chain, and Clinical Engineering, while maintaining equipment and demonstrating advanced clinical competence in surgical skills with strict adherence to the highest standards of sterility.
• Will rotate through all surgical service areas as needed to accommodate fluctuations in patient census.
• Provide comprehensive nursing care to pregnant patients during phase of antennal, intrapartum, and postpartum. Including monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and assisting with pain management techniques.
• Assess and monitor fetal well-being using electronic fetal monitoring and other diagnostic tools, and promptly report any abnormalities to the provider.
• Assist providers during labor, delivery, and cesarean sections, ensuring a smooth and efficient process.
• Educate expectant patients and their families about childbirth, breastfeeding, newborn care, and postpartum recovery.
• Provide emotional support and encouragement to laboring patients, helping them cope.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate of an NLN accredited School of Nursing
• Associate Degree in Nursing; Associate Degree Nurses are required to enroll in a BSN program within six (6) to nine (9) months of hire, and make progress toward and complete their BSN degree within 30 months. ADN nurses receive 100% tuition reimbursement towards a BSN degree from an accredited program
• Current Illinois RN license
• Active BLS certification through The American Heart Association

Preferred Qualifications:

• Labor and Delivery RN experience
• Circulator/Scrub role experience

Position Details:

• Full-time, 0.9 FTE
• Shift: Nights, 7:00pm - 7:00am, every other weekend required
• Work Location: Onsite
• Unit/Department: Labor and Delivery
• CBA Code: NNU