Job Summary
Labor and Delivery Department. Provides professional nursing care throughout labor, delivery, postpartum, antepartum, and newborn care while promoting a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach for patients, families, and the care team. Responsibilities include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care; documenting in the healthcare record; delegating care appropriately; and maintaining professional development.
Job Details
- Schedule: Night shifts, three 12-hour shifts per week, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
- Required Qualifications: At least 2 years of Labor and Delivery experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Preferred Qualifications: Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification and STABLE certification.
- Responsibilities: Provide direct patient care; assess and manage pain; perform newborn assessments; care for laboring and postpartum patients; support antepartum care; manage intravenous infusions and pumps; perform fetal monitoring; and participate in the care of patients undergoing dilation and curettage procedures or iron infusions.
- Patient Population and Unit Details: Care may include neonates, infants, adolescents, and adults. The unit supports labor, postpartum care, female surgery, antepartum care, normal newborn care, and special care nursery services, including stabilization and transfer when clinically indicated. Electronic Fetal Heart Monitoring (EFM), intravenous pumps, and rapid infusers are utilized.
- Additional Information: Influenza vaccination is required; medical and religious exemptions are accepted.
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
