Registered Nurse (RN) – Labor & Delivery | Night Shift |

Baylor Scott & White Health

Temple (TX)

On-site

USD 78,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) matching

PTO

Tuition reimbursement

Career advancement opportunities

Job summary

Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, TX is seeking a skilled Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse for a full-time night shift. Join a Magnet®-recognized hospital designated for Level IV maternal care with ~300 births per month and a strong, multidisciplinary team.

Provide direct patient care to laboring and high-risk obstetric patients, collaborating with physicians, residents, midwives, and neonatal teams to ensure safe, evidence-based outcomes.

Qualifications

Licensed RN in Texas.
One year of Labor and Delivery RN experience.
Strong clinical judgment and patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

Provide direct patient care for laboring and high-risk obstetric patients.
Collaborate with physicians, residents, midwives, anesthesiology, and neonatal teams.
Manage emergency and specialty obstetric procedures with a coordinated care team.
Deliver safe, evidence-based nursing care and promote learning and quality outcomes.

Skills

Labor & Delivery nursing

Team collaboration

Emergency obstetric care

Education

Accredited RN program

Job description

5 Antepartum rooms

Registered Nurse (RN) – Labor & Delivery

Baylor Scott & White Health – Temple, TX

Full-Time | Night Shift (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM)

Join a Magnet®-recognized hospital and a Level IV Maternal Care designated facility where excellence in maternal and newborn care is the standard. Baylor Scott & White Health in Temple, Texas is seeking a skilled and compassionate Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse to join our high-performing Women’s Services team.

About The Labor & Delivery Unit

Level IV Maternal Care Designation

Magnet® recognized hospital

Approximately 300 births per month

Fast-paced, high-acuity environment

Multidisciplinary team providing comprehensive care for routine and high-risk pregnancies

Teaching hospital with residents actively engaged in patient care

Unit features:

12 Labor & Delivery rooms

5 Antepartum rooms

3 dedicated OB Operating Rooms

4 OB Emergency Department rooms

Position Highlights

Provide direct patient care for laboring, and high-risk obstetric patients

Collaborate with physicians, residents, midwives, anesthesiology, and neonatal teams

Manage emergency and specialty obstetric procedures with a coordinated care team

Deliver safe, evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care

Contribute to a professional practice environment focused on quality outcomes and continuous learning

Schedule & Benefits

Full-time Night Shift: 7:00 PM - 7:00 AM

Full benefits available on Day One, including:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Retirement plans with employer matching

Paid time off (PTO)

Tuition assistance and career advancement opportunities

Why Baylor Scott & White – Temple, TX?

Be part of a highly skilled, professional, and supportive team

Work where career growth and personal fulfillment happen together

Practice in a family-friendly community with:

Affordable cost of living

Short commute times

Central Texas lifestyle and amenities

Our Commitment

At Baylor Scott & White Health, we are committed to delivering exceptional patient care and supporting our caregivers with the tools, education, and environment needed to thrive.

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a licensed professional who uses the BSWH nursing professional practice model to coordinate patient care delivery by the health care team. Using the nursing process, the RN assesses the patient, identifies nursing diagnoses based on responses to health problems, develops and implements an individualized plan of care, and evaluates the patient's response. The RN promotes safe passage for their patients by using knowledge of patient needs and the healthcare environment to assist patients to transition through the healthcare encounter without any preventable complications or delays. The RN delegates interventions to health care personnel based on the Texas Nursing Practice Act, each patient's condition and the competencies of the employee.

RN job is to be used for RNs in hospital inpatient and outpatient departments with 24X7 staffing which include those departments with on-call staffing on the off shifts. Examples of hospital inpatient and outpatient procedural areas: GI Lab, Pain Management, Dialysis, Infusion Centers and IV Services.

Essential Functions Of The Role

Clinical Judgment: Using clinical reasoning, conducts accurate clinical assessments according to practice standards. Identifies and prioritizes patient and family needs. Develops, implements and evaluates the nursing plan of care. Modifies plan to meet clinical outcomes.

Clinical Inquiry: Systematically evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, including, but not limited to, nursing sensitive indicators. Supports evidence-based practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning. Participates in quality/performance improvement initiatives.

Caring Practices: Creates a compassionate, supportive, safe and therapeutic environment for patients, families and staff. Develops therapeutic relationships with patient and family and maintains appropriate boundaries. Manages both emotional and physical pain with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.

Response to Diversity: Recognizes, appreciates and incorporates a patient's and family's unique differences, such as culture, spiritual beliefs, gender, race, ethnicity, lifestyle, socioeconomic status, age, and values, into an individualized plan of care.

Advocacy and Moral Agency: Preserves and protects the confidentiality, autonomy, dignity and rights of patient and family and represents their concerns. Creates an individualized plan that accurately reflects patient and family values and goals. Identifies and helps resolve ethical and clinical concerns.

Facilitation of Learning: Facilitates learning for patients and families, nursing staff, other members of the health care team and community; integrating appropriate education throughout the continuum of care to help them participate and/or make informed decisions about their health care and treatments, including health promotion and disease prevention. Assesses and documents learning needs and outcomes.

Collaboration: Works collaboratively and interdependently with colleagues and community to develop and implement an integrated plan of care. Open and sensitive to all team members' unique contributions. Delegates tasks and care to appropriate staff and ensures timely follow-up.

Systems Thinking: Uses strategies and available resources for problem-solving for patients, family and staff. Recognizes that resources are limited and considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and efficiency in planning and delivering patient care.

Professionalism: Improves nursing practice and the work environment through participating in shared governance and decision-making processes and meaningfully recognizing the contributions of others. Participates in the staffing process from education and planning to evaluation. Identifies personal goals and commits to ongoing professional growth through continuing education, networking with professional colleagues, membership and involvement in professional nursing organizations, self-study, professional reading, certification and seeking advanced degrees. Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues and others. Demonstrates commitment to community service.

KEY SUCCESS FACTORS

Knowledge and understanding of nursing and patient care standards and procedures.

Knowledge of laws, rules and regulations; standards and guidelines of certifying and accrediting bodies; hospital and department/unit standards, protocols, policies and procedures governing the provision of nursing care applicable to the area of assignment.

Knowledge of medical terminology; principles and practices of health promotion, risk reduction, illness and disease prevention and management; medications and drugs, common dosages, their physical and physiological effects, and possible adverse reactions.

Knowledge of medical and professional nursing ethics and patient privacy rights.

Must be able to communicate thoughts clearly, both verbally and in writing.

Interpersonal skills to interact with a wide-range of constituencies.

Must have critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Ability to observe changes in the medical condition of patients and effectively communicate these changes to other nursing staff members and physicians/providers.

Ability to provide age-specific, quality, patient-centered care to all patients through the nursing process and standards of nursing practice with sensitivity and respect for the diversity of human experience and to develop, evaluate, implement and, as necessary, modify a patient care plan to meet the needs of individual patients.

General computer skills, including but not limited to: Microsoft Office, information security, scheduling and payroll systems, electronic medical documentation, and email.

Benefits

Our competitive benefits package includes the following