Job Description
Find your calling at Mercy!
Ready for a New Chapter in Nursing?
Experienced RN - Labor & Birth
Mercy Hospital St. Louis | Full-Time Nights
January & February Transition Cohorts Available
Bring Your Nursing Experience to the Biggest Birthing Center in St. Louis
You've built a strong nursing foundation. You've mastered critical thinking, patient advocacy, prioritization, and compassionate care. Now, it's time to elevate your career in a specialty that combines advanced clinical skills with some of the most meaningful moments in healthcare.
At Mercy Hospital St. Louis Labor & Birth, we're looking for experienced RNs who are ready to transition into a highly rewarding and dynamic specialty. Through our comprehensive training and supportive onboarding process, you'll gain the specialized knowledge and confidence needed to thrive in Labor & Birth nursing.
Whether you're coming from Med Surg, Telemetry, ICU, Emergency Department, OR, or another nursing specialty, Mercy can help you make the transition.
Position Details:
Why Labor & Birth?
Labor & Birth offers a unique blend of high-acuity nursing, patient advocacy, family-centered care, and teamwork.
❤️ Make a Lasting Impact Few nursing specialties allow you to play such a meaningful role in a patient's life. You'll support families through one of their most memorable and life-changing experiences.
Expand Your Clinical Expertise Labor & Birth nurses utilize advanced assessment skills, fetal monitoring, rapid response interventions, medication management, and critical thinking every shift.
⚡ Experience High-Acuity Nursing Labor & Birth can shift from routine to emergent in moments. If you enjoy staying sharp, anticipating changes, and responding quickly, you'll find this specialty both challenging and rewarding.
Be Part of an Exceptional Team Work collaboratively with obstetricians, midwives, anesthesiologists, NICU specialists, surgical teams, and fellow nurses to provide outstanding care.
Grow in an Exciting Specialty Every patient, every labor, and every delivery is different. Labor & Birth offers continuous opportunities to learn and develop new clinical skills throughout your career.
Why Experienced Nurses Choose Labor & Birth
Many nurses find themselves looking for something more:
✔ A deeper connection with patients and families
✔ A specialty that combines critical care skills with compassionate support
✔ Opportunities to continue learning and growing
✔ A collaborative team environment
✔ Meaningful moments that remind them why they became a nurse
Labor & Birth offers all of that and more.
Is Labor & Birth Right for You?
You may be an excellent fit if you:
✅ Thrive in fast-paced, unpredictable environments
✅ Enjoy critical thinking and clinical decision-making
✅ Stay calm under pressure
✅ Communicate effectively with patients, families, and healthcare teams
✅ Value teamwork and collaboration
✅ Are excited to learn a new specialty and embrace a growth mindset
✅ Want to make a lasting impact on patients during an important life event
What You'll Do
As a Labor & Birth RN, you will:
- Provide exceptional patient-centered care throughout labor, delivery, and recovery
- Assess, monitor, and respond to changing maternal and fetal conditions
- Develop and implement individualized plans of care
- Educate and support patients and families
- Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary care teams
- Utilize fetal monitoring, laboratory, and diagnostic data to guide care decisions
- Participate in bedside handoffs and patient safety initiatives
- Contribute to quality improvement efforts and evidence-based practice
- Maintain professional growth through certifications, continuing education, and specialty development
Qualifications
Required
- Graduate of an accredited Nursing Program (ADN, Diploma, or BSN)
- Current RN License or eligibility for licensure in the state of Missouri
- BLS Certification through the American Heart Association (or obtained within 30 days of hire)
- Previous RN experience in an acute care or applicable clinical setting
Additional Certifications May Include
- ACLS
- NRP
- S.T.A.B.L.E.
- C-EFM
- PALS
- Other unit-specific certifications as required
Physical Requirements
This position requires the ability to:
- Lift, push, and pull up to 50 pounds regularly
- Stand and walk for extended periods throughout shifts
- Reach, bend, kneel, squat, twist, and perform direct patient care activities
Why Mercy Labor & Birth?
Largest birthing center in the St. Louis region
Comprehensive specialty training and support for experienced RNs transitioning into Labor & Birth
Collaborative, multidisciplinary care teams
Professional development and certification opportunities
Patient-centered culture focused on compassionate care
The privilege of helping welcome new life every day
Take Your Nursing Career Somewhere Extraordinary
Your experience has prepared you for this next step.
Join Mercy Hospital St. Louis Labor & Birth and discover a specialty where clinical excellence, teamwork, and life-changing moments come together every day.
Full-Time Nights
January & February Specialty Transition Cohorts Available
Apply today and bring your nursing experience to one of the most rewarding specialties in healthcare.
Why Mercy?
From day one, Mercy offers outstanding benefits - including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, tuition support, and matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Join a caring, collaborative team where your voice matters. At Mercy, you'll help shape the future of healthcare through innovation, technology, and compassion. As we grow, you'll grow with us.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Saint Louis, MO |
| Industry | Healthcare Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1986 |
| Website | https://www.mercy.net/ |
About Company
Our Mercy health system was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1986. But our heritage goes back more than 185 years. It began with an Irish woman named Catherine McAuley, who wanted to help the poor women and children of Dublin. Though Catherine had a modest upbringing, she received an unexpected inheritance that allowed her to fulfill her dreams. In 1827, she opened the first House of Mercy in Dublin, intending to teach skills to poor women and educate children. Many volunteers came to help. A few years later, Catherine founded the Sisters of Mercy, the first religious order not bound to the rules of the cloister, whose Sisters were free to walk among the poor and visit them in their homes. By the time Catherine died in 1841, there were convents in Ireland and England, and in 1843, the Sisters of Mercy came to the United States. In 1871, they traveled to St. Louis and from there throughout the Midwest, beginning what would, today be known as Mercy.
Mercy, named one of the top five large U.S. health systems in 2018, 2017 and 2016 by IBM Watson Health, serves millions annually. Mercy includes more than 40 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, 800 physician practices and outpatient facilities, 44,000 co-workers and 2,100 Mercy Clinic physicians in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In addition, Mercy's IT division, Mercy Technology Services, supply chain organization, ROi, and Mercy Virtual commercially serve providers and patients in more than 20 states coast to coast.
Skills
- Acute Careunmatched
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)unmatched
- Basic Life Support (BLS)unmatched
- Childcareunmatched
- Clinical Competencyunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Critical Careunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- D Programming Languageunmatched
- Emergency Careunmatched
- Establish Prioritiesunmatched
- Healthcareunmatched
- Hospitalunmatched
- Intensive Careunmatched
- Lift/Move 50 Poundsunmatched
- Maternal-Fetal Medicineunmatched
- Medicationsunmatched
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)unmatched
- Nursingunmatched
- Nursing Credentialsunmatched
- Obstetrics and Gynecologyunmatched
- Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursingunmatched
- Onboardingunmatched
- Patient Careunmatched
- Patient Educationunmatched
- Patient Safetyunmatched
- Perinatal Nursingunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Quality of Careunmatched
- Registered Nurse (RN)unmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Telemetryunmatched
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