Obstetrics Nurse Practitioner

Location: New York, NY 10021

Schedule: 12-Hour Shifts 13 Shifts per Month

Start Date: February 1, 2027
️ Contract Length: 13 Weeks, with Potential Extension for an Additional 13 Weeks

Exciting Hospital-Based Opportunity for Experienced Nurse Practitioners!

We are seeking an experienced Nurse Practitioner (NP) for an inpatient postpartum women's health assignment in New York City. This opportunity is ideal for a board-certified NP with recent postpartum experience who is confident managing routine postpartum care and recognizing acute complications in a hospital setting.

️ Key Responsibilities

• Perform postpartum assessments following vaginal and cesarean deliveries.
• Manage daily postpartum care and evaluate patients' recovery.
• Assess cesarean incisions, surgical dressings, vaginal lacerations, and sutures.
• Perform suture removal and dressing changes as appropriate.
• Provide discharge education, contraceptive counseling, and breastfeeding guidance.
• Review and manage laboratory results.
• Recognize and manage postpartum complications, including:
  • Acute hypertension
  • Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH)
  • Chest pain and shortness of breath
  • Presyncope and syncope
• Identify changes in patient condition and initiate appropriate clinical evaluation and orders.
• Collaborate with physicians, residents, laborists, Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialists, anesthesiology staff, and the code response team.

Position Details

• Hospital-based inpatient postpartum care.
• Two postpartum units, with approximately 25 beds per unit.
• Typical patient volume: patients per day.
• Primarily routine postpartum cases, with some acute-care cases.
• Electronic Medical Records (EMR): Epic.
• No call responsibilities.
• Breastfeeding counseling training may be provided, with an onsite lactation consultant available.

Shift Schedule

• Day Shift: 7:00 AM 7:30 PM
• Night Shift: 7:00 PM 7:30 AM
• Weekdays and weekends required.
• 13 shifts per month, rotating approximately half days and half nights.
• One-hour unpaid lunch break.
• No holiday shifts required.
• No direct rotation from a night shift to a day shift the following day.

️ Travel Benefits

• One round-trip flight.
• Lodging per diem provided for qualifying worked weeks.
• Transportation per diem provided for worked days.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Active New York State NP license.
• Board certification required.
• Master's degree required.
• Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) or Adult Nurse Practitioner accepted.
• Minimum of 2 years of recent inpatient OB/postpartum experience .
• Current BLS certification required.
• ACLS certification preferred.
• DEA registration required.
• Strong clinical skills in routine postpartum management and recognition of acute postpartum complications.
• Flexibility to work rotating day and night shifts.

Additional Information

• Credentialing timeframe: approximately 90 days.
• Coverage reason: maternity leave.
• Initial 13-week assignment, with potential extension for another 13 weeks.

Ready for Your Next Healthcare Assignment?

Take the next step in your career with this exciting inpatient postpartum opportunity in New York City!

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