Registered Nurse - Obstetrics

Registered Nurse (OB)

The Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility (CCHCF) is based in Chinle, Arizona (Northeast Arizona near Canyon De Chelly National Monument). Strong Navajo cultural traditions exist within the community, offering an opportunity to learn the Navajo language or learn about traditional Navajo medicine. The service unit is located on the Colorado Plateau with excellent opportunities for photography, hiking, running, road biking, cross-country skiing, and mountain biking. Canyon de Chelly National Monument is within 5 miles of the hospital and is a wonderful place for exploring and sightseeing, running, and mountain biking.

The CCHCF provides medical care for approximately 35,000 Navajo citizens. Serving a rural area, many of the patients travel 100 miles round trip to receive care and do not have electricity or running water in their homes. In addition, most of the elderly patients speak only Navajo and live according to traditional Navajo cultural practices. The CCHCF and Ambulatory Care Center is a 60-bed inpatient hospital and outpatient facility. Services offered include: Adult Inpatient, Labor & Delivery, Pharmacy, Adult Intensive Care, Mental Health, Physical Therapy, Anesthesiology, Nurse Phone Triage Services, Podiatry, Audiology, OB/GYN & Midwifery, Public Health, Dental, Occupational Therapy, Radiology, Emergency Medicine, Optometry, School Health, General Surgery, Outpatient Primary Care, Speech Pathology, Lab, Pediatric Inpatient, Women's Health Facility.

Address: Highway 191, Chinle, AZ 86503

Responsibilities

• The registered nurse shall provide a full range of obstetrical and newborn infant care to patients admitted to the Obstetric Care Unit.
• Shall exercise knowledge of the nursing process and its application to clinical practice in order to provide individualized, goal-oriented nursing care to the laboring, postpartum, antepartum, and newborn parents.
• Shall exercise knowledge of scientific and psychosocial nursing theory, principles, spiritual, and sociocultural needs of the Indian parent.
• Shall exercise knowledge of biological aspects of disease processes and illness relating to Obstetrical and newborn infants, and is able to recognize complications and implement appropriate nursing/therapeutic intervention required.
• Analyze the results of various medical procedures and translate them into appropriate nursing interventions.
• Shall work effectively and harmoniously within the health care team and with Indian patients and their families.
• Provide interfacility transports.
• Provide guidance to other staff regarding clinical decisions. Assist with and ensure the unit is in compliance with daily quality checks.

Requirements

• Education: Must have a degree or diploma from a professional nursing program approved by the legally designated State accrediting agency at the time the program was completed.
• Experience: Must have 3 years of nursing experience, with a minimum of one year of experience in OB/labor/postpartum units.
• License: Shall possess a current, valid, unrestricted nursing license in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a Territory of the United States.
• Certification: Must have BLS, ACLS, NRP, and Fetal Monitoring Certification.

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