Travel Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse

City: Martinez, CA
Assignment Length: 13 Weeks
Schedule: 3×12-Hour 19:00 – 07:00
Years of Experience: 1+ years in labor and delivery. 
Required: CA RN License, AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring cert, NRP, ACLS, and  BLS.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care
• Assess signs and symptoms indicating physiologic and psychosocial changes in the patient’s condition
• Collects, analyzes, and interprets data and information from healthcare members and documents actual and/or potential nursing diagnoses
• Plans for expected outcomes of care for those patients assigned
• Performs interventions according to identified priorities, plan of care, and the hospital policies and patient care outcome standard
• Provides a safe, comfortable and therapeutic patient environment
• Uses clinical judgment in the evaluation of activities to meet patient care needs of an assigned unit/floor including establishing priorities
• Monitors the safety and effectiveness of the environment and equipment
• Promotes interpersonal relations with patients/family/significant others, hospital healthcare coworkers, and physicians
• Uses effective communication skills with all contacts while being objective and sensitive
• Communicates pertinent information about patient, nursing unit, and activities as appropriate
• Monitors vital signs for the mother and baby
• Administers medication as ordered
• Monitors contractions and fetal heart rate
• Identifies complications during labor and delivery
• Communicates the mother’s condition and needs to the physician
• Coaches the mother during labor and delivery and provides emotional support
• Caring for the mother after she gives birth
• Performs other duties as assigned/necessary

Minimum Requirements:

• Current Registered Nurse license within the state of practice.?
• One year of Labor and Delivery clinical experience within the last three years preferred.?
• Complies with all relevant professional standards of practice 
• Participation and completion of Amergis’ Competency program when applicable
• Current CPR if applicable
• TB Questionnaire, PPD or chest x-ray if applicable 
• Current Health certificate (per contract or state regulation) 
• Must meet all federal, state and local requirements 
• Successful completion of new hire training as applicable to job site 
• Understand patient confidentiality and HIPAA requirements  
• Ability to effectively elicit/provide information to and from appropriate individuals (including, but not limited to, supervisors, co-workers, clients) via strong communication skills; proficiency in the English language is required  
• Computer proficiency required 
• Must be at least 18 years of age