RN Specialty Labor and Delivery
Baptist Health
About the Role
A Registered Nurse is responsible for planning, organizing, and administering care within the scope of his/her training and expertise, collaborating with other disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes.
A Labor and Delivery Nurse provides nursing care to women and their infants before, during, and after birth. This includes assisting the physician with all aspects of pregnancy and birth, assisting surgeons during cesarean sections, and caring for women who experience complications with their pregnancies or birth processes.
Department: Labor And Delivery
Shift: Night
Working Hours: 1830-0700
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, organize, and administer care within the scope of training and expertise.
- Collaborate with other disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes.
- Assess the patient and develop a plan of care designed to meet the physical, psychological, educational/health literacy, sociocultural, and spiritual needs of the patient and family.
- Assist the physician with all aspects of pregnancy and birth.
- Assist surgeons during cesarean sections.
- Care for women who experience complications with their pregnancies or birth processes.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Meticulous with strong attention to detail.
- Caring, compassionate, and knowledgeable on all aspects of pregnancy, labor, and birth, as well as post-pregnancy care, complications, and treatments.
- Able to practice as a full partner of an interdisciplinary team.
- Applies basic knowledge and skills to meet the standard of care.
Qualifications
- A new RN graduate from an accredited nursing program or Registered Nurse in good standing.
- Active, unencumbered RN license to practice in the state of Arkansas.
- BSN preferred.
- Healthcare CPR required.
- Some areas may require ACLS, PALS, and/or NALS - training is provided.
- Specialty units require and will provide specific specialty education.