IP REGISTERED NURSE - OB

Job description

$5,000 Sign-On Bonus! Location/Department: Hospital - OB/New Beginnings: 60h/pp night shift with weekend, on call, and holiday rotations Job Summary: Provide family-centered nursing care & education to the antepartum, laboring, postpartum, maternal newborn couplets & special care nursery patients/families. Provide perinatal & follow-up testing & visits. Directly supervises nursing assistants & unit secretary. Requires interpretation of fetal monitoring. Provides basic resuscitative care for newborns in the delivery room. Technical responsibilities (i.e. computer, Mobilab, hearing screen). Duties/Responsibilities: - Uses only approved abbreviations. - Understands patient safety goals & actions taken. - Uses 2 patient identifiers before giving treatments, demonstrates process. - Understands read back of verbal orders/critical lab values & can state process. - Understands procedure to clarify physician orders. - Uses standing orders when indicated. - Accurately calls report to MD as warranted by condition; reports to other providers as needed. - Reports sentinel events or adverse drug reactions or incidents as warranted. - Uses final verification before invasive procedures & can verba...