Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery. This acute-care role supports high-risk labor and antepartum patients, including those requiring epidurals, insulin drips, intravenous magnesium, and preterm labor management. Responsibilities may also include circulating in the operating room, serving as the delivery baby nurse, and providing float coverage to lower-acuity maternal-child units.
Job Details
- Schedule: 12-hour night shifts, 36 hours per week, including every other weekend.
- Required Qualifications: Registered Nurse license; three years of Labor and Delivery experience; Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification; American Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Intermediate Fetal Monitoring certification; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care for high-risk labor and antepartum patients in accordance with American Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) patient-assignment standards.
- May circulate in the operating room and serve as the delivery baby nurse.
- Float assignments may include the neonatal intensive care unit, pediatrics, and postpartum units, with assignments appropriate to the clinician’s competencies and patient acuity.
- An obstetric hospitalist is available 24 hours a day, with break-nurse and resource-nurse support.
- Typical assignments include one labor patient per nurse and two to three antepartum patients per nurse.
- Orientation includes nursing orientation, documentation-system training, maternal-child unit orientation, and exposure to associated postpartum, pediatric, and neonatal units as appropriate.
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
