Registered Nurse (RN) Labor & Delivery (L&D)

Role: Registered Nurse (RN) Labor & Delivery (L&D)

Location: San Diego, CA 92134

Duration: Permanent 

Compensation Range: $121,742.40

provide care to Active Duty heroes, their family members, and retirees. Registered Nurse (RN) – L&D shall normally provide services for 12 -hour shifts and will be assigned shifts according to the following rotation during each 2-week period: One week will comprise of three 12 -hour shifts and one 8 -hour shift; and the other week will comprise of three 12 -hour shifts. The Registered Nurse (RN) – L&D shall provide services Sunday through Saturday including holidays. The 12 -hour shifts run 0700 to 1930 or 1900 to 0730. Each shift includes a -hour uncompensated meal break. In no instance will a Registered Nurse be required to provide services in excess of 80 paid hours per 2-week period.

DUTIES OF THE REGISTERED NURSE (RN) – L&D:

• Perform a full range of RN duties, including: triage; patient assessment and monitoring; appropriate nursing care, procedures, and treatments; execution of physicians orders; documentation of patient care and observations; and patient education and emotional support.
• Perform monitoring of 500 to 950 triage patients per month, including continuous fetal monitoring, spontaneous rupture of membrane check, labor check, prolonged monitoring, rule out pre-term labor, decreased fetal movement, and Pregnancy Induced Hypertension.
• Perform monitoring of 210 inpatients per month, including continuous fetal monitoring, vital signs and assessment q15-60min and labor checks/cervical exams.
• Provide management of Pregnancy Induced Hypertension patients.
• Provide intravenous management (fluids, Pitocin, Magnesium Sulfate, antibiotics and insulin).
• Perform lab draws.
• Provide pain management (monitor patient status on continuous laboring epidurals, intravenous narcotics, and emotional support).
• Assist the provider with inductions (cervical ripening, artificial rupture of membranes, Pitocin).
• Perform vaginal delivery procedures (pushing, delivery, recovery).
• Assist the provider with operative vaginal delivery procedures (vacuum, forceps).
• Perform pre-op for c-sections (shave-prep, foley, intravenous bolus, emotional support).
• Perform procedures for transition of normal newborn (NRP as needed, bath, shots, assessment, breastfeeding assistance).
• Provide stabilization for transport of high-risk patients. (Magnesium Sulfate, dexamethasone, antibiotics, emotional support)
• Provide patient/family teaching.
• Support C-section deliveries as circulating nurse in the OR.
• Provide post anesthesia care for patients who have received epidural, spinal or general anesthesia.
• Operate and manipulate automated systems such as CHCS, AHLTA, ADS, Essentris, and Clinical Information System (CIS)

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE REGISTERED NURSE (RN) – L&D:

• Associates Degree of Nursing or higher
• Graduate from a college or university accredited by Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN) or the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
• Possess a minimum of three years of experience in the past four years in a Labor and Delivery Unit
• Possess current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
• Documentation of Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring training.
• Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a Registered Nurse in any of the 50 States, DC, or U.S. Territories.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen (for access to Gov’ t computer systems)

• COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
  Competitive pay, over $130, 000 per year!
  10 days paid time off per year plus 7 sick days per year
  10 paid Federal holidays
  Health & Welfare allowance mostly covers the cost of health insurance, long and short-term disability, and life insurance
  Dental and vision plans offered, 401(k)