Job Summary
Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery position supporting high-risk, high-volume deliveries in a fast-paced, high-acuity environment. The role provides care for laboring patients and newborns, including baby nurse responsibilities during delivery through transfer to postpartum care. The assignment includes collaboration with midwifery clients, private obstetric providers, recovery services, and community care clinics.
Job Details
- Schedule: 12-hour night shifts, 36 hours per week. The schedule is posted every six weeks according to unit needs and includes every other weekend and holidays as needed.
- Required Qualifications: At least one year of Labor and Delivery experience with high-risk experience; Basic Life Support (BLS) certification; Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification; electronic health record charting experience; ability to circulate during cesarean deliveries; ability to provide newborn care, including eye care, vitamin K administration, and newborn assessments.
- Preferred Qualifications: Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification; Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Advanced certification; Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Intermediate certification; experience with electronic fetal monitoring.
- Float: Float rotation may be required.
- Additional Information:
- Provides care in a high-risk, high-volume Labor and Delivery environment with four operating rooms.
- Performs baby nurse responsibilities during delivery and continues newborn care until transfer to postpartum.
- Supports vaginal and cesarean deliveries, newborn assessments, breastfeeding support, postpartum hemorrhage care, magnesium sulfate therapy, insulin drips, anticoagulation therapy, and fetal heart rate assessment.
- May float to antepartum, postpartum, neonatal intensive care support, or other applicable units as needed.
- Assignment dates are 11/30/2026 through 03/01/2027.
- Orientation includes 36 hours.
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
