RN Labor and Delivery

Workster; Lincoln City (OR); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare staffing firm in Lincoln City, Oregon is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) to provide direct and indirect patient care. This role involves utilizing the nursing process while ensuring safety and age-appropriate care. Candidates must be licensed in Oregon and possess certifications like BLS and STABLE. Experience in Labor and Delivery, postpartum, and nursery care is preferred, along with strong communication and adaptability skills in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Ability to work with diverse populations from pediatrics to geriatrics.
• Ability to respond quickly in crisis situations.
• Effective time management skills for dynamic environments.

Responsibilities

• Utilize nursing process to provide safe patient care.
• Offer labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum care.
• Provide stabilization for high-risk neonates.

Skills

Social Perceptiveness

Adaptability/Flexibility

Time Management

Effective Communication

Education

Current unencumbered Oregon RN license

Healthcare Provider Level BLS

STABLE certification

Job description

The Registered Nurse (RN) is accountable for utilizing the nursing process to provide safe, age-appropriate, direct and indirect patient care, while practicing within the scope of practice of the Oregon State Board of Nursing.

Department Description

• The LDRP team offers labor, delivery and recovery including post partum and newborn care by a highly trained team of nurses and medical staff in a family centered caring and medically safe environment. All sites are trained in GYN surgical care.

Experience / Education / Qualifications

• Current unencumbered Oregon RN license required.
• Healthcare Provider Level BLS required.
• STABLE required within 1 year of hire.
• NLH Labor and Delivery:
  • Basic Fetal Monitoring skills required.
  • ACLS required within six (6) months of hire unless arranged differently with department manager.
  • NRP required within six (6) months of hire.
  • Previous experience in Labor and Delivery preferred. Will train qualified RN with Perinatal experience.
• NLH Postpartum Gynecological Unit:
  • NRP required within six (6) months of hire.
  • Previous Perinatal nursing experience preferred.
• NLH Nursery:
  • NRP required within six (6) months of hire.
  • Experience in stabilization of the newborn preferred.
  • One (1) year experience as general duty nurse with emphasis on adult and/or pediatric nursing preferred.
  • Previous experience in stabilization of the high risk neonate preferred.

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Social Perceptiveness: Ability to work with a diverse population from pediatrics to geriatrics. Basic understanding of age-related differences in caring for and/or communicating with patients and caregivers. Possess personal sensitivity to the needs and experiences of others and a non-judgmental attitude towards persons of differing standards, values, lifestyles, and ages.
• Adaptability/Flexibility: Ability to respond quickly and appropriately to situations that may arise with high risk or diverse patient populations. Ability to adjust actions in relation to others and adapt to offer best possible care to patients.
• Time Management: Ability to organize, plan and prioritize work to complete within required time frames and to follow-up on pending issues. Ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and thrive in dynamic fast-paced environments and under pressure.
• Communication: Effective written and oral communication skills to explain complex issues, exchange information between team members, and tactfully discuss issues.
• NLH LDRP All: Ability to function effectively in crisis situations. Possess critical, independent thinking skills. Basic knowledge of lactation.
• NLH LDRP - Labor and Delivery: Knowledge of the physical and psychological changes of pregnancy, birth and the immediate postpartum period for the mother and her neonate. Ability to initiate appropriate interventions in caring for the family during the immediate newborn period, accepts responsibility for actions. Possess assessment skills specific to the high-risk pregnancy. Ability to initiate an intravenous line. Basic knowledge of pharmacodynamics of anesthesia and analgesia.
• NLH LDRP - Nursery: Knowledge of the physical and psychological changes of the neonate immediately after birth, and during the newborn period. Ability to initiate appropriate interventions in caring for the family during the immediate newborn period. Possess assessment skills specific to the high-risk neonate.
• NLH LDRP - Postpartum Gynecological Unit: Knowledge of the physical and psychological changes of pregnancy, birth and the immediate postpartum period for the mother and her neonate. Ability to initiate appropriate interventions in caring for the family after delivery. Knowledge of the physical and psychological changes of the Gynecologic patient. Ability to initiate appropriate interventions in caring for the surgical patient.