Overview Nurse (Labor & Delivery) - GS-0610- (11) - Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA
Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, is the oldest continuously running hospital in the Navy. Our new facility is constantly evolving to reflect our growing population with new technology and training opportunities. Over 4,300 Sailors and civilians work in locations from Yorktown to Chesapeake to deliver health care to the 420,000 Active-Duty members, family members, and retirees living in Hampton Roads. These men and women carry on a tradition of caring and service that dates back to Revolutionary times. Portsmouth is an independent city in southeastern Virginia, United States. It lies across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk. As of the 2020 census, the population was 97,915. It is the ninth-most populous city in Virginia and is part of the Hampton Roads metropolitan area. Due to its strategic location, the city has long been associated with the United States Armed Forces, particularly the Navy. The Norfolk Naval Shipyard is a historic and active Navy facility located in Portsmouth.
Benefits and Perks
Working for the Department of Defense comes with an abundance of benefits and perks to include:
• Competitive compensation packages • Paid time off • Medical benefits • Student loan repayments • Retirement package with Thrift Savings Plan to include matching employer contributions
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Job Summary
This is a Direct Hire Solicitation Who May Apply: US Citizens
Responsibilities
Provides comprehensive specialized nursing care to complicated and routine antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and perioperative obstetric patients and their neonates. Assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates complicated and routine obstetric and neonatal patients who require close observation for subtle changes in condition. Consistently utilizes advanced assessment skills to identify difficult patient care problems, formulates plans to meet complex patient care needs, and continually revises goals and objectives according to changes in maternal/fetal status.
Key Responsibilities
• Monitors, evaluates, and documents the status of laboring patients through frequent checks of blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and fetal monitor patterns and reports findings to the provider as appropriate. • Recognizes the stages of labor and notifies the appropriate provider when delivery is imminent. • Assists with precipitous deliveries. • Administers medications, including high-risk medications, as ordered within the guidelines of nursing practice. • Monitors patient response to medications, documents, and adjusts therapy according to provider order and relevant policies. • Is responsible for the security of narcotics, high-risk medications, and other controlled substances. • Assist physicians and nurse midwives in examination and treatment in the delivery room. • Delivers babies in emergency situations. • Confers with providers concerning instruments, sutures, special equipment, and procedures unique to vaginal/instrument/cesarean delivery. • Responsible for the setup of the delivery room and handles supplies and equipment, including delivery lights, oxygen, suction machines, and maternal and fetal monitoring equipment.
Additional Responsibilities
• Provides primary operating room circulating duties for Cesarean Sections and tubal ligations, and initiates and/or assists with operating room circulating duties for emergency obstetric surgeries, including hysterectomy, dilation and curettage, and exploratory laparotomy following Cesarean delivery. • Provides post-anesthesia care. • Assesses and cares for obstetric patients that receive epidural, spinal, or general anesthesia. • Has knowledge of common obstetric anesthetic agents, including actions and adverse reactions, in order to recognize positive and negative effects and respond appropriately. • Must be able to recognize and respond to anesthetic complications and emergencies, including, but not limited to, malignant hyperthermia, laryngospasm, bronchospasm, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Teaching and Discharge Planning
• Initiates discharge planning/teaching upon admission of each patient. • Actively participates in multidisciplinary discharge planning. • Provides emotional support to patients, family members, and significant others. • Provides comprehensive nursing care to patients/families experiencing perinatal and neonatal loss. • Coordinates follow-up care for patients and family members who have experienced perinatal or neonatal loss.
Conditions of Employment
• Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation. • This position requires the incumbent to be able to obtain and maintain a determination of eligibility for a Secret security clearance or access for the duration of employment. • A background investigation and credit check are required. • This position has specific initial background investigation and periodic re-verification requirements since its duties require interaction with children and youth under the age of 18 years on a recurring basis. • Selectees will be required to sign a statement (Condition of Employment) consenting to seasonal influenza vaccinations or must provide a recognized exemption. • This position is a Testing Designated Position subject to pre-employment screening and random drug testing. • Selectees will be required to consent to participation in random drug urinalysis testing. • A pre-placement medical examination is required. • Immunization screening is required. • Hepatitis B immunization is required for all positions with direct patient contact. • Applicants may be required to show proof of other immunizations depending on the type of position. • Must be able to obtain and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Red Cross. • Advanced certification (e.g., ALS) does not supersede BLS. • Must be able to obtain and maintain certification in Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP). • Applicants must be able to fulfill non-privileged professional credential requirements.
Qualifications
Basic Requirements
• Must be a US Citizen • Basic Requirement for Nurse (Labor & Delivery): Degree: A graduate or higher level degree, bachelors degree, associate degree, or diploma from an accredited professional nursing educational program is required. • Licensure: A current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a professional nurse from a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States; and you must have passed the National Council Licensure Examination. • Active, current registration as a professional nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
Additional Requirements
• GS-05: Education/Experience: A diploma or associate degree in professional nursing and one full year of professional nursing experience which includes one year of professional nursing, or of at least GS-4 level practical nurse or nursing assistant experience under the supervision of a professional nurse which includes caring for the labor & delivery patient, taking vital signs, and patient documentation. • GS-07: Education/Experience: A bachelors degree in Nursing and at least one full year of professional nursing experience (equivalent to the GS-5 grade level) which includes providing care to labor & delivery patients, assisting with procedures, and obtaining vital signs. • GS-09: Education/Experience: A diploma, associate degree, or bachelors degree in Nursing from a professional nursing program and possession of at least one full year of professional nursing experience (equivalent to the GS-7 grade level or above) which includes providing nursing care to labor & delivery or postpartum patients, administering medications, and providing lactation education to patients or staff. • GS-11: Education/Experience: A diploma, associate degree, or bachelors degree in Nursing from a professional nursing program and possession of at least one full year of professional nursing experience (equivalent to the GS-9 grade level or above) which includes providing nursing care to labor & delivery or postpartum patients, administering medications, and providing lactation education to patients or staff. • PhD or equivalent doctoral degree from a professional nursing educational program or related medical science field, including but not limited to Nursing. • Completion of all requirements for a doctoral degree (Ph.D. or equivalent) from a professional nursing program. • 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education from a professional nursing program.
Exemptions
• You are exempt from the qualification requirements above if you are a current federal employee occupying a position in the 0610 occupational series and have been continuously employed in this occupational series since September 27, 2017 or before. • Applicants claiming this exemption must meet the requirement below.