Ambulatory OBGYN Nurse BWH

Staff Nurse - 24hr Variable Day - BWH Ambulatory OBGYN - General/Resident/Adolescent OB Clinics
The Registered Nurse is a professional nurse registered in Massachusetts who is responsible and accountable for planning and providing patient care for assigned patients in accordance with Nursing Standards of Care as set forth in the Nursing Department's Clinical Practice Manual. The Registered Nurse demonstrates initiative, knowledge, and clinical skills in caring for the patient with complex needs. The Registered Nurse demonstrates the ability to effectively manage patients by assuming full responsibility for the assessment, plan, implementation, and evaluation of patient care and is directly responsible to a designated nurse manager or supervisor.
For newly licensed nurses, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing is required.
Nursing at Brigham and Women's Hospital is known for their excellent clinical practice and for keeping patients and their families at the center of all they do. We understand that great care is shaped by relationships with patients and their families. That's why we're committed to knowing our patients on a deeper level - not just as patients, but as individuals - to ensure that they, and their families, feel known and cared for.
At BWH, we proudly work together with a spirit of inquiry and a deep commitment to providing the highest quality, evidence-informed and theory-guided care. We work each day to achieve our vision - to provide excellent care to patients and families, with the best staff, in the safest environment.
Just as we have been able to reinvent health care, we have also transformed health care careers. Whether measured in terms of lives saved, awards earned, or the personal satisfaction of stretching your talents - a career with BWH is unlike any other in the health care field. Here you'll find a workplace where collaboration and teamwork are the norm, not the exception - physicians, nurses, technicians, staff and management form a close-knit bond, based on mutual respect and devotion to our patients. If you want an enormously fulfilling career, there's no better place to be.
The Staff Nurse will be responsible for:
- Providing care for patients at the BWH main campus in the General/Resident OB clinic supporting both resident and midwife patients
- Telephone Triage of OB Patients
- Communicating with and providing nursing care to OB Patients via Patient Gateway
- Working collaboratively to provide excellent care to patients and families in the safest environment
- Working collaboratively with attending physicians, midwives, residents, fellows, physician assistants, social workers, and medical and practice assistants to meet the needs of our obstetric patients.
- Administration of IM, SC, and PO medications as ordered and per protocol.
- Interpretation and follow-up routine prenatal labs and genetic testing per protocol.
- Patient education on obstetrical topics, including birth control counseling
- Maintaining flexibility in meeting the changing needs of clinic assignments and workflows.
- Must be a team player, multi-tasker, hardworking, reliable, trustworthy, and empathetic.
- Working collaboratively to provide excellent care to patients and families in the safest environment.

Education:

• Graduate of an approved school of nursing with current registration in Massachusetts. A Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing is required for newly licensed nurses.

Experience:

• A minimum of 3 years of clinical nursing experience is required.

• Nursing experience in an ambulatory OB clinic/practice setting is required.

• L&D nursing experience preferred.

• Postpartum nursing experience is preferred.

• Bilingual is preferred.

Other:

• Membership in professional organizations is recommended and certification in a specialty area is preferred.

• Able to work weekend rotation per the MNA contract.

The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. By embracing diverse skills, perspectives and ideas, we choose to lead. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, national origin, sex, age, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, military service, genetic information, and/or other status protected under law. We will ensure that all individuals with a disability are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.