Registered Nurse RN - Labor & Delivery Resource Pool - Part Time

Gainesville, GA

time type Part time

Labor & Delivery Department’s Overview The Gainesville Labor and Delivery Unit, consisting of 18 labor/delivery/recovery beds, 8 triage beds, 4 operating rooms and 6 PACU bays. The Braselton Labor and Delivery Unit, consisting of 10 labor/delivery/recovery, 2 triage beds, 2 operating rooms and 2 PACU bays. The Habersham LDRP (Labor/Delivery/Recovery/Postpartum) unit consists of 9 labor/delivery/recovery/post-partum beds, 1 triage bed, and a 2 bed well baby nurserys.

Care provided to women and infants seeking treatment includes, but is not limited to:

• Laboring patients
• Scheduled inductions
• Cesarean sections
• Obstetrical emergencies
• Intrauterine fetal demise / miscarriage
• OB outpatient visits
• Well newborn admission
• Postpartum (mother/baby) couplet care

Job Summary Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate.

Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients.

Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Minimum Job Qualifications Licensure or other certifications:
Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.

Educational Requirements:

Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required

Minimum Experience:

At least 2 years of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire Other:

• Must have active Georgia RN license

Preferred Job Qualifications Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN

Job Specific And Unique Knowledge,

Skills And Abilities

Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service

Essential Tasks And Responsibilities Transformational Leadership Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance. Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization Exemplary Professional Practice Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family Demonstrates initiative and seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical…