Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery (Registry/Rotating Shift)

Experience Nurses For Labor & Delivery

HPH Is looking for experience nurses for Labor & Delivery to provide professional nursing services in the treatment and care of antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum patients. Assesses, plans, evaluates, implements, and documents the nursing process of care delivery. Assumes responsibility and accountability for the application of the nursing process and delivery of patient care. Consistently performs according to nursing standards and is accountable in managing patient care and assisting others in the management of patient care.

Essential duties and responsibilities include:

• Planning, providing, supervising and documenting professional nursing care utilizing the nursing process for patients in accordance with physician orders and established policies and procedures.
• Communicating and collaborating with nurses, physicians, OB Technicians and other members of the healthcare team to develop a plan of care to ensure optimal patient outcomes and continuity of care.
• Charting observations and activities related to patient care in electronic health record.
• Providing safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care for a patient population using critical thinking skills, advocacy abilities and ethical approaches.
• Guiding and directing assigned unlicensed assistive personnel in delivering interdisciplinary patient care.
• Assessing signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient's condition and reporting changes to the physician.
• Performing interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, infection control and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standards.
• Actively participating in Quality Assurance/Process Improvement initiatives to improve patient safety and outcomes, such as monitoring compliance of core measures, infection control practices, etc.
• Educating patient/family prior to discharge regarding the diagnosis, medication and discharge instructions.
• Collecting blood specimens by venipuncture or microtechniques for laboratory analysis necessary for patient treatment and diagnosis.

Department specific duties and responsibilities include:

• Reviewing patients obstetrics gynecology history to identify risk factors.
• Fetal monitoring skills utilizing NICHD guidelines, prefer certification in Electronic Fetal Monitoring.
• Able to care for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients.
• Proficient in caring for high-risk pregnant patients.
• Able to circulate a cesarean section, tubal ligation or D&C.
• Able to react quickly and appropriately to emergent situations.
• Able to offer labor support during the intrapartum period.
• Provides infant care and education to mother/significant other or designee.
• Able to assist new mother with lactation needs.

Qualifications include:

• Minimum of 1 to 5 years Labor and Delivery experience preferred
• Current IL RN License
• NRP required.
• BLS required.
• ACLS required.

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