Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery

Rapides Regional Medical Center; Alexandria (LA); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria, LA, seeks a dedicated Registered Nurse to join the Labor and Delivery team. You will lead nursing care for newborns, adolescents, and adults, ensuring safe, evidence-based care and active patient/family involvement in decision-making.

Responsibilities include assessment, planning, and evaluation of outcomes, collaboration with physicians and the care team, and adherence to standards in maternal-newborn care.

Qualifications

• ACLS within 30 days of start date.
• Fetal monitoring within 1 year of start date.
• NRP within 6 months of start date.
• RN license in Louisiana, or compact licensure.
• BLS within 30 days of start date.
• Registered Nurse Diploma, Associate Degree, or Bachelor’s Degree.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Nursing Care team with accountability for assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient-focused care.
• Assess and document patient needs across physical, psychosocial, educational, and cultural domains, communicating with the care team.
• Initiate, modify, and communicate care plans and interventions.
• Provide age-appropriate care for neonate, adolescent, and childbearing adult.
• Educate patients and families to promote healthy behaviors and informed decisions.
• Assess patient responses to interventions and progress, documenting in the clinical record.
• Coordinate patient care through collaboration with the healthcare team and physicians.
• Perform and assist with procedures in Labor & Delivery, immediate postpartum, and OR as needed.
• Demonstrate safe use of equipment and adherence to infection control standards.
• Identify abuse signs and follow reporting mechanisms.
• Monitor and report adverse drug reactions as required.

Skills

ACLS

Fetal monitoring

NRP

RN license LA

BLS

RN diploma/AA/BSN

Education

RN diploma/AA/BSN

Job description

As a Registered Nurse in Labor & Delivery, your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You'll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Job Summary And Qualifications

The staff nurse serves as the leader of the Nursing Care team who is ultimately responsible and accountable to the patient for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient focused, outcome-oriented care. Will develop competencies for functioning safely in all areas of Labor and Delivery Services. Nursing plan of care will include newborns, adolescents, and adults.

What you will do in this role:

• The staff nurse serves as the leader of the Nursing Care team who is ultimately responsible and accountable to the patient for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient focused, outcome-oriented care.
• Through assessment of the patient’s physical, nutritional, psychosocial, spiritual, emotional, cultural, educational, and rehabilitative needs, problems are identified and documented in the clinical record and communicated to the physician, social worker, case manager, and ancillary departments when appropriate
• Appropriate standards of care, care plans, and interventions are initiated, professionally modified, and communicated to the patient and other members of the healthcare team
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care based on physical, psychosocial, educational, safety, and related criteria appropriate to the following age groups: neonate, adolescence, childbearing age adult
• Provides patient/family health education that promotes healthy behaviors, supports recovery, and enables the patient/family to be involved in decisions about their own care
• The patient’s responses to interventions and progress toward desired outcomes are assessed, re-assessed, evaluated, and documented in the clinical record
• Patient care activities are coordinated through collaboration and planning with other members of the healthcare team
• Physicians’ orders are carried out accurately and efficiently, and clarified when necessary
• Adverse or sudden changes in the patient’s conditions are promptly communicated to the physician, charge nurse, nursing supervisor, and/or family with specific and pertinent data
• Able to identify potential or actual victims of abuse and understands the proper reporting mechanism
• Able to recognize adverse drug reactions and demonstrates understanding of proper reporting mechanism once reaction is identified
• Appropriately assesses the patient’s pain and involves the patient in effective management of that pain using appropriate interventions
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary for administration of blood and blood products and appropriately monitors the patient receiving blood/blood products for any transfusion reaction; takes proper measures once a reaction is recognized
• Patient care equipment is utilized safely and efficiently in accordance with hospital policies and procedures
• Standard precautions are promoted and followed in the utilization of principles of infection control in patient care
• Achieves stated goals related to job performance
• Educational attendance records reveal attendance at all required educational programs/in-services
• Demonstrates ability to assess neonate at delivery and perform neonatal resuscitation
• Demonstrates knowledge of fetal monitoring. Identifies FHR patterns and treats appropriately
• Able to modify job duties and communicate with customers in an age appropriate manner.
• Demonstrates an ability to assist physicians with procedures in Labor and Delivery, immediate postpartum, and O.R. as necessary.
• Able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to utilize the Infant Security System and HUGS tags.

What qualifications you will need:

• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Intermediate Fetal Monitoring must be obtained within 1 year of employment start date
• Neonate Resuscitate (NRP) must be obtained within 6 months of employment start date
• (RN) Registered Nurse license in the state of Louisiana, or compact licensure
• Basic Cardiac Life Support must be obtained within 30 days of employment start date
• Registered Nurse Diploma, or Associate Degree, or Bachelors Degree

Benefits

Rapides Regional Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

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Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

“Nurses are essential to the delivery of healthcare and serve as its foundation. At HCA Healthcare, we are committed to equipping nurses with the tools and resources they need to deliver exceptional patient care, championing the profession, and supporting the advancement of nursing’s future.”

Erica Rossitto, MBA/HCM, BSN, RN, NEA-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nurse Executive

HCA Healthcare

Rapides Regional Medical Center is a 350+ bed hospital and ER in Alexandria, Louisiana. We offer services ranging from Cancer Care to Wound Care. Our medical staff includes doctors in more than 30 medical specialties. At Rapides Regional we believe that well-defined values are the key to nurturing staff and patient satisfaction. By joining our team you contribute to the positive culture of the hospital. This culture impacts the well-being of patients and their families. It also impacts your colleagues, and your own personal job satisfaction. Learn what our commitment to patient satisfaction, service excellence and professional expertise can do for your career.

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