Temp - Registered Nurse (RN) - Labor & Delivery (L&D) (Nights) Brattleboro, VT

The
Registered Nurse is responsible for assessing the health status of individuals
and groups, establishing nursing diagnoses, identifying and planning goals to
meet health care needs, prescribing nursing interventions, implementing the
plan of care and evaluating and documenting responses to interventions.

The Birthing
Center is a level one low risk birth unit utilizing single room maternity care.
Care is provided incorporating Orem s theory of self-care and philosophy of
family centered care. Care is administered on inpatient or outpatient status.
The patient population includes obstetrical patients (antepartum, intrapartum
and postpartum), clean female surgical cases, newborn stabilization, normal
newborn care, pediatric patients during the Perinatal period. Cesarean births
are performed and recovered in the Birthing Center. Nursing personnel are
provided for therapeutic abortions performed on other units when staffing
permits.