POSITION: Registered Nurse / Labor and Delivery
**Would prefer traveler to have competency and experience in antepartum, intrapartum, and OBOR (combination or separate competency of scrubbing or circulating).**
SCHEDULING DETAILS AND CHARTING
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" Shift hours: 3x12s, nights, 645p-715a
" Charting: Experience with any electronic charting system-required
" Weekend Requirement: May be EOW or 6 weekend shifts in a 6-week scheduling block
" On call required variable amount; maximum 24 hours per 6 week schedule block
" RTO, Block & Special Scheduling Requests: ALL requests must be included with the submission.
" Call off Policy: Facility is allowed to call off 1 shift per 2-weeks.
" Holiday Requirement: Must work one holiday per 13-week contract.
" Accept First-Time Travelers: Yes
" Locals Accepted? No. Refer to the Submittal Instructions for radius rule criteria.
" Pending License Accepted: Yes, only if the candidate holds a single-state license from a non-compact state. Otherwise, submission must include an active Virginia State or Compact RN/LPN license.
REQUIRED CERTIFICATIONS
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BLS
REQUIRED CLINICAL SKILLS
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" Experience in High Risk Antepartum and Labor/Delivery
" Experience with: Assist with sterile speculum exam (effacement, dilation, station, presentation), NST (Non Stress Tests),Reflex checks / edema assessment / clonus, Sterile vaginal exam, Triage of obstetrical patients,
Use of EFM (External Fetal Heart Monitoring)
" Fetal monitoring: Recognition and Treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns ***Use of External Fetal Monitoring, Use of Internal Fetal Monitoring,
Use of IUPC (Intrauterine pressure catheter) placement and calibration
" Medications: Antihypertensives, Insulin drips, Magnesium Sulfate therapy,
Pitocin (oxytocin), Prostaglandins, Terbutaline
UNIT DETAILS AND FLOATING
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" Staffing Targets (based on VDH Obstetrics regulations)
- 1:1-2 Laboring patients
- 1:3-4 Antepartum patients
- 1:3 Triage patients
- 2:1 OBOR patients
- 1:1-2 OB PACU patients
" Skill Mix
- Clinical Team Leaders (RN)
- Registered Nurses
- 4 NAs
" Unit Info: Located on 13 South, Labor and Delivery is a 24 bed unit providing specialized care to low and high risk pregnant patients during the antepartum period through delivery. We are the referring center for high risk pregnancies for Southwest VA, receiving patients within an approximate 150 mile radius. We accept pregnant patients over the gestational age of 20 weeks. We also maintain a 3 bed triage area, 2 ORs and 2 post-anesthesia beds. Our deliveries average 250 per month. Our triage patients average 350 per month.