Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery. This role provides nursing care for labor and delivery, postpartum, pediatric, and medical-surgical patients in an acute care setting. Responsibilities include monitoring patients, titrating medications as ordered, supporting emergency and routine obstetric care, and floating to medical-surgical and pediatric services when needed.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts are 12 hours, from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., with a minimum of 36 hours per week; every third weekend and every third holiday are required.
- Required Qualifications:
- Minimum of 1 year of nursing experience.
- Labor and delivery experience required.
- Medical-surgical and pediatric experience required.
- Current Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certifications required.
- Active nursing license required for submission.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Critical access experience preferred.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Patient populations include labor and delivery, postpartum, hyperbilirubinemia, preterm labor, and triage.
- Nurses may titrate oxytocin in obstetric care and cardiac medications, heparin, and sedation medications in intensive care.
- Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring (EFM) is used for fetal monitoring.
- Nurses monitor cardiac rhythms and are expected to interpret their own rhythm strips, with support available as needed.
- On-call coverage is required with a 1-hour response time.
- The charge nurse may accept a patient assignment when necessary.
- A respiratory therapist is available on call 24/7 for ventilator, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), bilevel positive airway pressure, and high-flow equipment support.
- Unit-specific orientation consists of one 12-hour shift.
- Strong communication, motivation, and approachability support success in the role.
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
