Labor & Delivery RN - Night Shifts, Maternity Care

Job Responsibilities

• Assessment:
  Conducts comprehensive, timely, and ongoing focused physical, psycho- social and pain assessments; includes assessment of patient education needs.
• Planning:
  Utilizes the assessment, identifies problems, makes nursing diagnoses, and formulates goals, teaching plans and outcomes to create an individualized plan of care. Identifies individual patient goals, readiness to learn and incorporates family into the plan of care. Implementation:
  Prioritizes and implements a competent, prioritized and efficient nursing plan of care.
• Evaluation/Reassessment:
  Consistently conducts timely evaluation, anticipates and recognizes changes in patient conditions, determines when reassessments are needed and adjusts the plan of care as necessary. Compares expected and achieved outcomes of nursing care utilizing the plan of care.

Qualifications

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited diploma, associates, or baccalaureate degree nursing program.

Licensure/Certification/Registration:

• RN License to practice as a professional registered nursing in the state of Texas or Compact License
• BLS Certification required
• ACLS Certification required

Experience/ Skills:

• Minimum of 2 year clinical experience as a licensed RN
• Minimum of 1.5 years clinical experience in the Labor and Delivery unit in an acute care setting