RN Labor Deliver Part Time $7 night differential

MLK Community Healthcare; Los Angeles (CA); In loco; USD 110.000 - 140.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

MLK Community Healthcare in Los Angeles seeks a Labor, Delivery, Recovery & Postpartum Clinical Registered Nurse to provide expert perinatal care over 12-hour shifts, following the nursing process and MLKCH policies. You will collaborate with the Clinical Unit Supervisor, deliver mother and newborn assessments, document care, and support families during labor, cesarean and vaginal births.

Requirements include a BSN, 1 year LDRP experience, BLS/ACLS, and bilingual skills preferred.

Competenze

• BSN required; may require completion of BSN within 5 years of hire
• Minimum 1 year of Labor and Delivery/Postpartum nursing experience
• Nursery/NICU experience preferred
• Related nursing specialty certification preferred

Mansioni

• Demonstrates and maintains competencies of LDRP RN
• Attends laboring patients and assists with births; newborn and mother assessments
• Performs documentation of patient care including IPOC, discharge, and education
• Uses SBAR communications in emergencies and routine hand-off reports
• MaintainsBaby-Friendly model of care and existing unit policies
• Develops care plans with patient collaboration and ensures safety and comfort
• Delegates tasks appropriately and supervises subordinates
• Evaluates care plan effectiveness and modifies as needed

Conoscenze

Bilingual (Spanish)

Basic computer skills

BLS

ACLS

Formazione

BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing)

Descrizione del lavoro

The Labor, Delivery, Recovery & Postpartum (LDRP) Clinical Registered Nurse is able to consistently transfer scientific knowledge from social, biological and physical sciences in applying the nursing process and is responsible for helping people cope with difficulties in daily living that are associated with their actual or potential health or illness problems or the treatment thereof, and that require a substantial amount of scientific knowledge or technical skill. Reporting to the Clinical Unit Supervisor (CUS) of Perinatal Services, the LDRP Clinical Registered Nurse has 12 hour accountability for the delivery of patient care to a defined group of patients according to the age, population, and social needs of the patient and family. This position requires the full understanding and active participation in fulfilling the Mission and Vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Healthcare (MLKCH), and it is expected that the employee will demonstrate behavior consistent with MLKCH’s Core Values. The employee shall support MLKCH’s strategic plan and the goals of the quality and performance improvement process activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrates and maintains the competencies, qualifications, attitudes, behaviors, and skills required of the LDRP Clinical Registered Nurse.
• Demonstrates teamwork and collaboration during all interactions.
• Carries out directives from the CUS, Nurse Manager and Senior Director per the chain of command.
• Maintains understanding of perinatal evidence-based practices, new knowledge, and follows MLKCH policies and procedures.
• Attends and assists with the laboring patients, cesarean births and vaginal births; immediate care of the newborn, mother assessments and infant assessments and care.
• Develops and maintains a therapeutic nurse/patient relationship throughout the health care continuum. Respects the patient’s rights as an integral part of the nurse/patient relationship as reflected in our values and mission.
• Utilizes SBAR communications in all emergencies, endorsements of care, and routine bedside hand-off reports.
• Recognizes, evaluates, responds, and communicates appropriately during maternal, neonatal emergencies, and/or unusual situations and maintains current position competencies, requirements and qualifications.
• Adheres to the standards set forth in the Baby-Friendly model of care.
• Performs documentation of patient care including: assessment, interdisciplinary plan of care (IPOC), implementation, evaluation, education, discharge, and follows unit specific and hospital documentation policies and procedures.
• Formulates a nursing diagnosis through observation of the client's physical condition and behavior, and through interpretation of information obtained from the client and others, including the health team.
• Formulates a care plan, in collaboration with the client, which ensures that direct and indirect nursing care services provide for the client's safety, comfort, hygiene, and protection, and for disease prevention and restorative measures.
• Performs skills essential to the kind of nursing action to be taken, explains the health treatment to the client and family and teaches the client and family how to care for the client's health needs. Provides direct and indirect patient care services, including, but not limited to, the administration of medications and therapeutic agents, necessary to implement a treatment, disease prevention, or rehabilitative regimen ordered by and within the scope of licensure of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or clinical psychologist.
• Delegates tasks to subordinates based on the legal scopes of practice of the subordinates and on the preparation and capability needed in the tasks to be delegated, and effectively supervises nursing care being given by subordinates.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the care plan through observation of the client's physical condition and behavior, signs and symptoms of illness, andreactions to treatment and through communication with the client and the health team members, and modifies the plan as needed.
• Observes signs and symptoms of illness, reactions to treatment, general behavior, or general physical condition, and determination of whether the signs, symptoms, reactions, behavior, or general appearance exhibit abnormal characteristics, and implementation, based on observed abnormalities, of appropriate reporting, or referral, or standardized procedures, or changes in treatment regimen in accordance with standardized procedures, or the initiation of emergency procedures.
• Acts as the client's advocate, as circumstances require by initiating action to improve health care or to change decisions or activities which are againstthe interests or wishes of the client, and by giving the client the opportunity to make informed decisions about health care before it is provided.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

A. Education

• Bachelor of Sciences degree in nursing (individuals hired without a BSN will be required to complete a degree program within 5 years of their hire date)

B. Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum of one (1) year of clinical nursing experience in Labor and Delivery and Postpartum nursing with regard to regulatory guidelines and standard of practice;
• Nursery and/or NICU experience preferred.
• Certification in related nursing specialty preferred.

C. Special Skills/Knowledge

• Bilingual skills preferred (Spanish)
• Basic computer skills
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Equal Rights Employer

Applicants are considered for positions without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, military service, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws. This application is intended for use in evaluating your application for employment.

MLK Community Healthcare

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