Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery — Location not provided. The role provides care for laboring patients, postpartum couplets, triage patients, and newborns in an acute-care setting. Responsibilities include attending deliveries, circulating for cesarean sections, completing newborn assessments and care, managing magnesium and insulin infusions, and supporting postpartum care.
Job Details
- Schedule: 12-hour shifts with day and night coverage; minimum of 36 hours per week. Weekend and holiday scheduling may be based on unit needs.
- Required Qualifications: Registered Nurse with a valid nursing license; minimum of 3 years of Labor and Delivery experience; experience attending deliveries, completing one-hour newborn care, triage, circulating for cesarean sections, postpartum couplet care, and magnesium therapy; required certifications include Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS), Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Advanced Fetal Monitoring (AFM), Basic Life Support (BLS) through the American Heart Association (AHA), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), and STABLE.
- Preferred Qualifications: Mother-baby experience, preferably at least 1 year; charge nurse experience.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Patient populations include pregnancies at 32 weeks' gestation and greater, hypertensive conditions requiring magnesium therapy, trial of labor after cesarean, gestational diabetes, antepartum patients, and patients requiring medical intervention or pain control.
- Nurses must be able to titrate Pitocin, magnesium, and occasional insulin infusions according to established protocols.
- The role includes stabilizing newborns, completing physical assessments and initial care within the first 2 hours, and participating in medication verification.
- The care team includes anesthesia and obstetric coverage available around the clock, neonatal advanced practice coverage, respiratory therapy support, a resource nurse, and a triage nurse.
- Four shifts of department-specific orientation are provided, including cesarean section, labor, and postpartum orientation.
- Hospital-issued scrubs are required, along with compliance with a no-fingernail-lacquer policy that prohibits acrylic and gel nails in the department.
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
