Registered Nurse - OB ($10,000 Incentive)
Description
Job Summary
The Registered Nurse- Birth Center is passionate about providing exceptional care to our patients and their families during labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery. This includes monitoring maternal and fetal health, administering medications, and assisting with deliveries. The RN-OB/L&D educates and supports mothers and families throughout the birthing process and collaborates with physicians, (Doula), and healthcare teams to ensure positive patient outcomes. This is supported by the highest quality nursing care, strong critical thinking, communication and organizational skills and emotional resilience. The RN-Birth Center delivers professional nursing care to patients within the hospital, using established Standards of Nursing Practice and RN Scope of Practice.
Essential Job Functions
Job functions are those tasks, duties, and responsibilities that comprise the means of accomplishing the job’s purpose and objectives. Job functions are critical or fundamental to the performance of the job. They are the major functions for which the person in the job is held accountable.
Labor and Delivery RN Job Functions
• Continuous monitoring of maternal vital signs, contractions, fetal heart rate, and progress during labor.
• Guides mothers, administering pain relief (epidurals), assisting with interventions (forceps/vacuum), and preparing for childbirth.
• Supports physicians/providers during vaginal and C-section deliveries, ensuring readiness for emergencies.
•Cares for mother and baby immediately after birth, educating on newborn care, breastfeeding, and monitoring recovery.
•Maintains accurate patient charts and medical records. Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing interventions and progress towards problem resolution and patient goals.
• Prepares rooms and equipment, ensuring supplies for unexpected C-sections or emergencies are always ready.
•Maintains confidentiality in matters related to patient, and family.
•Provides care in non-judgmental, non-discriminatory manner that is sensitive to age appropriate, and patient and family’s diversity, preserving their autonomy, dignity, and rights.
•Reports patient condition to provider and health care team as appropriate during each shift.
•Will delegate, supervise and assist in care provided by PCA’s/PCT’s, and CNA’s
• Maintains competency in medical surgical nursing for all ages determined by the Clinical Educator, Inpatient Manager and CNO.
•Successfully demonstrates professional nursing skills, competencies, and expected outcomes as required for a MMHC Registered Nurse.
Postpartum RN Job Functions
• Recognizes and responds to obstetric emergencies. Initiates emergency resuscitative measures according to pediatric and adult resuscitation protocols.
• Provides emotional support and education to families on childbirth, postpartum recovery, and infant care.
• Cares for mother and baby immediately after birth, educating on newborn care, breastfeeding, and monitoring recovery.
•Maintains accurate patient charts and medical records. Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing interventions and progress towards problem resolution and patient goals.
•Assist L&D Nurse as delegated in emergencies.
• Maintains competency in medical surgical nursing for all ages determined by the Clinical Educator, Inpatient Manager and CNO.
•Successfully demonstrates professional nursing skills, competencies, and expected outcomes as required for a MMHC Registered Nurse.
Note: This job description does not state or imply that the above are the only duties and responsibilities assigned to this position. Employees holding this position may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this job description.