RN Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery - PT Nights 3rd weekend

RN Registered Nurse – Labor & Delivery (PT Nights)

Henry Ford Health seeks a Registered Nurse for the Labor & Delivery unit to work nights (7 pm‑7:30 am, every 3rd weekend) on a part‑time basis. Sign‑On Bonus:
Up to $4,500.

• Provide a full range of delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services to patients in accordance with the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner’s Domains of Nursing Practice.
• Coordinate development of a multidisciplinary plan of care, ensuring appropriate length of stay, resource utilization, and achievement of quality outcomes.
• Deliver patient‑centered care that respects patients’ rights, dignity, culture, and preferences, and administers pharmacologic and non‑pharmacologic measures for comfort.
• Collaborate with families, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans and ensure continuity of care.
• Maintain rigorous documentation of nursing interventions, progress toward outcomes, and patient education.
• Support departmental and unit quality improvement, teaching, and leadership activities.
• Adhere to patient confidentiality, universal precautions, and cost‑effective use of supplies.

• Use independent professional judgment, analytic skills, and the nursing process to provide delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services.
• Demonstrate clinical competence, compassion, customer service orientation, focus on outcomes, and cost‑consciousness when assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.
• Provide patient care that reflects respect for patients’ rights, dignity, values, culture, preferences, and expressed needs.
• Assess patient/family needs for information and education and plan and implement teaching using a variety of techniques and methods.
• Alleviate patient fears and anxiety through skillful professional and interpersonal communication.
• Utilize a variety of pharmacologic and non‑pharmacologic approaches to ensure patient comfort and relief of pain.
• Collaborate with patient/family, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans.
• Orient Self‑Evaluation:
  Competent or Needs Training review; adhere to Seven Domains of Nursing Practice and Signature Care elements.
• Initiate and document medication reconciliation, risk factor assessment, and nursing care plans.
• Document nursing interventions (NIC) and progress toward outcomes (NOC) and patient education on every shift.
• Administer therapeutic regimens and perform basic nursing procedures (dressing change, catheterization, NG tube insertion, suctioning).
• Establish and maintain peripheral IV therapy; obtain body fluid specimens per procedure.
• Monitor and respond to changes in patient physiologic parameters, pain, respiratory, neurologic, cardiac, and urinary status.
• Use SBAR or other standardized methods to communicate patient changes to physicians.
• Respond appropriately to emergencies through initiation of CPR, emergency equipment checks, and immediate interventions.
• Support families in crisis, grieving process, and promote a physically safe environment.
• Communicate with departments and physician staff to ensure appropriate progress of patients.
• Identify ethical issues related to patient care and initiate resolution steps.
• Demonstrate adherence to patient confidentiality requirements and professional communication standards.
• Promote a cost‑effective use of supplies and resources; assist in evaluating new products and procedures.
• Support nursing department and unit strategic goals; participate in council/staff activities and quality monitoring.
• Teach and mentor student nurses and orientate new staff units.
• Participate in leadership actions: communicate expectations, observe progress, and assist team members with patient care activities.
• Participate in the creation and maintenance of a healthy work environment: treat co‑workers with respect and resolve conflicts promptly.
• Communicate appropriate patient care issues and concerns to nurse manager and respond to changes in unit workloads.
• Maintain knowledge of and update to NCC and other nursing curriculum standards.
• Travel and occasionally work nights, weekends, and on-call.
• Perform other related duties as…