Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery. This position provides care for high-risk perinatal patients across labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, triage, and operative settings. The role supports complex maternal-newborn care, including vaginal and cesarean deliveries, fetal monitoring, neonatal assessment, and collaboration with interdisciplinary care teams.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shift, 12-hour shifts, with a minimum of 48 hours per week. Weekend coverage is required, and call is not required.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years of Labor and Delivery experience.
- Registered nursing licensure, with a compact license in hand when applicable.
- Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certifications.
- Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Advanced or Intermediate fetal monitoring certification, or Relias Fetal Monitoring certification.
- Required experience with electronic health record charting.
- Competency with sterile vaginal examinations, high-risk antepartum care, labor management, vaginal and cesarean delivery support, fetal monitoring, postpartum and couplet care, neonatal assessment, newborn resuscitation, hemorrhage management, preeclampsia and eclampsia care, magnesium sulfate therapy, epidural anesthesia, amnioinfusion, insulin drips, and management of premature rupture of membranes and preterm labor.
- First-time travelers may be considered.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in a setting managing approximately 200 or more deliveries per month.
- Experience with high-risk perinatal care and Level III maternal services.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- The unit includes labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, triage, operating rooms, and post-anesthesia care areas.
- Patient populations include neonates and adults.
- The care environment includes approximately 19 labor and delivery beds, 10 antepartum beds, 30 postpartum beds, and a seven-bay triage area.
- Staffing support includes surgical technologists, Certified Nursing Assistants, delivering providers, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, health unit coordinators, respiratory services, interpretation services, phlebotomy, radiology, social services, rapid response teams, pharmacy, and unit secretarial support.
- The role includes support for high-risk deliveries, cesarean recovery, newborn assessment, breastfeeding support, discharge education, postpartum hemorrhage management, and recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns.
- Candidates must be available to work three of five designated holidays during the assignment.
- All requested time off and scheduling requests must be submitted before assignment confirmation.
Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:
- Private housing or generous housing allowance
- Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
- Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
- Competitive salaries
- Referral bonuses
- Travel reimbursement
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Direct deposit/free checking
- Unlimited free CE credits
