Temp - Registered Nurse; RN - Labor & Delivery; L&D; Nights Brattleboro VT

Registered Nurse

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.

Requirement description:

• 1+ years minimum of current LDRP experience (experience 400+ deliveries a year preferred) - [REQUIRED]
• Experience with C-Sections, epidurals, electronic charting, venipuncture proficiency - [PREFERRED]
• AFM, NRP, and S.T.A.B.L.