RN - L&D

Cynet Health; Richmond (KY); On-site; USD 55,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

Cynet Health is seeking an RN for L&D in Kentucky. The role involves obstetric patient care on a 13-week assignment with a 12-hour third shift, focusing on rounds, assessments, and family-centered education.

The RN must hold an active, unrestricted RN license in the state, with BLS certification. The position emphasizes teamwork, clear communication, and adherence to safety protocols within the labor and delivery unit.

Qualifications

• Active, unrestricted RN license in the applicable state.
• Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results.
• Communicates effectively, clearly, and respectfully with active listening.
• Collaborates with all coworkers, values differences, and contributes to team results.
• Greets internal and external customers professionally, provides information, and follows up.
• Understands and can learn computer systems and applications.
• Communicates with care team members effectively.
• Assesses age-specific patient safety issues and uses appropriate safety devices.

Responsibilities

• Provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
• Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities.
• Provision of patient and family-centered education.
• Care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable.
• Performs comprehensive RN assessments per scope and hospital policy.
• Considers culture, age, and development in patient care.
• Identifies patient risk factors and presenting complaints; gathers health information.
• Collects objective and subjective data; verifies initial admissions assessments.

Job description

RN - L&D

Profession: Nursing

Specialty: Obstetrics

Duration: 13 weeks

Shift: Third Shift

Hours per Shift: 12

Experience: No experience required

License: Active, unrestricted Registered Nurse (RN) license in the applicable state

Certifications: BLS

Must-Have:

• Accepts responsibility for words, actions, attitude, and results while meeting deadlines and performance expectations.
• Practices effective, clear, and respectful communications (both verbal and written) and demonstrates attentiveness through active listening and engaged body language.
• Collaborates, respects, and cooperates with all co-workers, valuing differences and addressing concerns directly while actively contributing to the vision and results of the team.
• Warmly, personally, and professionally greets all internal and external customers, promoting a high level of satisfaction by providing information about what to expect, actively listening, and intentionally following up on questions and concerns, including taking corrective action when necessary.
• Shows an understanding and knowledge of computer systems and applications and/or ability to be trained.
• Ability to communicate/collaborate with other care team members.
• Ability to assess age-specific patient safety issues and implement appropriate safety devices for all patients.

Description:The RN implements professional nursing practice centered on the patient as a whole person and the creation of a caring environment focused on healing and wellness.Nursing practices are based on evidence and current research, as well as hospital and department policies and procedures, regulatory standards, and professional guidelines.Clinical decision-making incorporates all four phases of the nursing process, critical thinking, and creativity.Nursing excellence is promoted through helping relationships among nursing staff and across other disciplines.Coordinates, ensures, and provides direct patient care activities on the unit through:

• Provision of nursing rounds, assessments, and treatments.
• Facilitating admission, transfer, and discharge activities.
• Provision of patient and family-centered education.
• Care coordination and individualized treatment planning as applicable.

Assessment of patient needs includes:

• Performing and documenting a comprehensive assessment in accordance with RN scope of practice and hospital policies/procedures.
• Considering the patient’s culture, age, and developmental level.
• Identifying patient risk factors and presenting complaints.
• Obtaining patient health information from family or others as necessary.
• Collecting objective/quantitative and subjective/qualitative data.
• Verifying initial admission assessments, if obtained by other members of the healthcare team.

Develops a problem list, prioritizing patient needs based on input from the inter-professional team as appropriate.Designs actions and interventions relevant to the patient’s culture and age.Determines desired outcomes in coordination with patient and family, in accordance with the medical plan of care.Fully implements patient care therapies and procedures with empowerment and clinical autonomy within scope of practice, in accordance with established policies, procedures, professional guidelines, culture, and age of patient served.Explains procedures, treatments, and processes to patients and families.Initiates actions to alleviate the patient’s stress and discomfort.Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.Conducts and documents ongoing assessment and response to procedures and therapies using the nursing process according to hospital policy, established standards, culture, and age of the patient served.

Delegates tasks appropriately and oversees team members in the performance of activities regarding patient care.Monitors accuracy and completeness of delegated patient care provided by other team members in implementation of the plan of care.Identifies and addresses educational needs of patients related to prioritized problems according to level of comprehension.Facilitates patient discharge process by executing discharge orders in a timely manner.Identifies potential discharges, assuring performance of discharge teaching and coordination of plan with case management and others, as indicated.Provides input into patient/nurse assignments in consideration of available staffing, unit activity, and patient acuity.Demonstrates active participation in unit-based activities in support of organizational values/priorities.Promotes a positive group dynamic and healing environment through words and actions.Assures nursing excellence in accordance with accepted standards, evidence-based practice, current research, and caring philosophy.Actively participates in department and/or unit quality improvement activities and core measures, such as, but not limited to, patient satisfaction, patient falls, pressure ulcers, CAUTIs, auditing, and monitoring of documentation.Uses a holistic perspective regarding patient care.