Job Overview:
The LDRP RN provides comprehensive nursing care to normal and high-risk antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn patients for ONLY full time- Night shifts at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The RN will assess patients, develop and implement nursing care plans, monitor maternal and fetal conditions, assist with deliveries and obstetric procedures, administer medications, recover patients following anesthesia, provide newborn care and resuscitation, educate families, and maintain complete electronic clinical documentation. This role will need Child background verification.
Key Duties:
- Care for normal and high-risk obstetric patients, including patients with pregnancy-induced hypertension, diabetes, preterm labor, and multiple gestations.
- Perform and interpret fetal monitoring, including internal and external monitoring.
- Administer medications, IV push medications, blood products, and titrated IV drips such as Pitocin.
- Assist with vaginal and Cesarean deliveries, including scrub and circulating duties.
- Assist with amniocentesis and NST/CST testing.
- Recover mothers and infants following general or regional anesthesia, including epidural and intrathecal anesthesia.
- Recognize and respond rapidly to maternal, fetal, and newborn emergencies.
- Provide initial newborn care and neonatal resuscitation.
Qualifications:
Degree/Education: Diploma, Associate Degree (AD), or BSN from an accredited school of nursing. The PWS specifies graduation from a nursing program accredited by ACEN or CCNE.
Experience: Must have been continuously employed as a Registered Nurse for 3 years prior to starting at WRNMMC, including at least 2 years as an RN in a high-risk Obstetrical Unit. Must have experience across the full spectrum of Labor & Delivery, antepartum, triage, C-section circulating, and postpartum care.
Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted Registered Nurse license from a U.S. State, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or U.S. territory.
Required Certifications: Must have and maintain BLS, ALS or ACLS, S.T.A.B.L.E., CPR, NRP, Intermediate Fetal Monitoring or higher/Advanced Fetal Monitoring, plus the DHA perinatal requirement of ALSO every 3 years or ECO every 2 years.
Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen.
Computer Skills: Basic computer proficiency, including word processing, data entry, and electronic medical records such as MHS GENESIS.
Schedule:
WRNMMC operates around-the-clock for these inpatient services. Standard shifts are 12.5 hours, including a 30-minute unpaid meal break: Day 6:45 Am - 7:15 pm and Night 6:45 PM–7:15 AM. Nurses must work at least 50% of weekends during each six-week scheduling period and be available for at least 50% of applicable federal holidays and at least one Prime Holiday Period annually. L&D nurses are also scheduled for one on-call shift per pay period.
Work Environment:
This position works in Walter Reed's Mother Infant Care Center/Labor & Delivery environment, providing continuous inpatient care to mothers and newborns, including high-risk obstetric cases and emergencies. It is a fast-paced clinical environment requiring strong fetal-monitoring, delivery, C-section, anesthesia-recovery, newborn-resuscitation, and emergency-response skills.
Health & Security Requirements:
Must meet WRNMMC occupational-health and immunization requirements, including required health documentation, TB screening, annual influenza immunization, applicable vaccinations, and N95 requirements.
About Us
AIMS Locum Tenens, LLC, d/b/a AIMS Force, is a WOSB-certified healthcare management company based in the Northern Virginia and Washington, DC area. We focus on healthcare management in both the public and private sectors.AIMS Force is one of the fastest-growing healthcare management companies, specializing in placing highly skilled healthcare professionals in commercial and government healthcare facilities across the country. We have the experience, resources and scale to help physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals find both short-term and long-term opportunities in a wide range of specialties. We staff healthcare providers for short-term and long-term assignments at local, state and federal government healthcare facilities.At AIMS Force, we know that quality comes from attention to detail. We are a one-stop shop for healthcare facilities, handling every step of finding the right candidate: sourcing, recruitment, screening, credentialing, final placement and retention of highly qualified healthcare providers.AIMS Force provides highly qualified physicians and nurses to community hospitals, clinics and Army Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs) during staffing shortages. Hospital systems, MTFs, nursing homes and outpatient clinics benefit from our comprehensive, cost-effective supplemental medical staffing services.Our No. 1 priority is to provide the best service to our healthcare professionals and to our hospital and MTF clients. We welcome feedback and suggestions so we can keep improving.At AIMS Force, our core pillars of dedication, commitment, trustworthiness and superior service drive every part of our business.