RN, Mother Baby Unit Resource

Job description

Department Overview The Mother Baby Unit at OHSU provides postpartum, antepartum, transgender and gynecological care to low and at risk populations. They provide well newborn care as part of rooming in service and in a well newborn nursery. Care is provided and assignments made based on acuity and strives to follow the Guidelines for Professional Nurse Staffing for Perinatal Units published by Association for Women's Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses (2010). Function/Duties of Position: Intermediate care is provided to patients with complications and generally utilizes a 2 patients: 1 RN ratio. Care is provided to mothers and their newborn infants, to antepartum patients who require periodic fetal monitoring, and to stable surgical gynecologic patients without complex co-morbidities. Required Qualifications: - 1-year postpartum experience or medical surgical experience - Will consider new graduate who has had their senior capstone in a postpartum setting - BSN Graduates: Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing from a program accredited by Commission of Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or Commission for Nursing Education Accr...