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This position is responsible for serving as the primary Registered Nurse delivering care to patients who are admitted to the Family Birth Center. This patient population may include low-risk and high-risk pregnancies, as well as providing care to postpartum patients and well newborns.
Job Responsibility:
Conducts Maternal-Fetal Assessment
Provides nursing support to the laboring patients, utilizing pharmacological and non-pharmacological pain management
Provides stabilization and transition of the normal newborn at delivery
Circulates for Cesarean Sections
Cares for the post-surgical patient
Assists the anesthesiologist with insertion of an epidural and provides care to the patient with regional anesthesia
Provides care to the High-Risk maternity patient
Assesses and cares for post-partum and newborn patients
Identifies and provides appropriate interventions to mothers with post-partum complications
Provides support and education to breast-feeding mothers
Identifies full-term infants at risk for complications and provides appropriate care to the full-term infant with complications
Requirements:
Graduation from an accredited school of nursing upon hire and one to two years Med/Surg experience with completion of Mother/Baby Education program or, New graduate with completion of senior practicum in L&D, Mother/Baby unit or nursery
Registered Nurse: WA, upon hire
Current American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS certification
Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 6 months of date of hire
Nice to have:
Bachelors Of Science Nursing and One year of related work experience in an acute care setting, upon hire
Previous Mother-Baby experience
Electronic Fetal Monitoring offered by National Certification Corporation (NCC), or American Nurses Credentialing Center certification