Registered Nurse - Labor & Delivery

Location and Shift

City/State:
White Plains, New York

Department: WPH Labor and Delivery_2

Work Shift:

Day

Work Days: MON-FRI, ALTERNATING WEEKENDS AND HOLIDAYS

Scheduled

Hours:

7 AM - 7:15 PM

Hours Per Pay Period: 77.5

Pay Rate/Range: $58.4096 - $75.8096

The Registered Nurse provides direct patient care. The RN collaborates with patients, family/ significant others, peers, physicians, and other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team in the delivery of healthcare services to patients. The RN assesses the patient's needs, plans care, implements and evaluates medical and nursing regimens in accordance with the hospital and nursing philosophy, policies and procedures and standards.

The RN demonstrates leadership skills and commitment to professional accountability and growth.

Understand and adhere to the WPH Performance Standards, Policies and Behaviors. Provide respectful care for all patients that promotes mutual respect, shared decision‑making and informed consent while respecting a patient’s autonomy and dignity regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity, religion, language, or any other protected group status. The L&D RN provides respectful birthing care with the same principles.

The NICU RN provides management of NICU infants requiring inter‑facility transport and utilizes the nursing process to meet age‑specific biophysical, psychosocial, educational, safety/environmental and discharge planning needs. The RN employs the decision‑making process, recognizes and prioritizes patient care and unit‑based issues, administers blood and blood products per policy, collaborates and communicates with the interdisciplinary team, integrates patient rights and nursing ethics into practice, adheres to infection control standards, follows Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals, delegates activities to ancillary staff, adheres to the State Nurse Practice Act, follows ANA Code of Nursing Ethics and Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice, supports and practices within the WPH Professional Nursing Practice Model, sustains and advances the Magnet model, participates in performance improvement initiatives, completes competency requirements, attends mandatory in‑services, attends staff meetings as required, utilizes cost containment practices and assumes Charge Nurse responsibilities.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

• BSN required or MSN with less than 1 year of experience
• Prior patient experience preferred; 1‑3 years of acute care nursing experience in areas other than medical‑surgical nursing or step‑down required
• Knowledge of current nursing, medical and health trends and practices in rendering of patient care (medium proficiency)
• Assessment skills: sound problem‑solving, judgment and decision‑making
• Must adapt in a high‑stress, fast‑paced environment with multiple interruptions
• Must detect sounds and respond to emergency sounds/signals at all times
• Must constantly operate computers, equipment and other devices
• Requires ability to concentrate on fine detail with interruptions and attend to tasks for more than 60 minutes at a time
• Must understand and relate to theories behind several related concepts and remember multiple tasks given during the course of a day
• Registered Nurse, New York State Board of Nursing license required

• Basic Life Support (BLS) – American Heart Association; required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) – American Heart Association; required for all RNs, except NICU & OR, within 1 year for inexperienced; required for newly hired experienced RNs (except NICU & OR) within 180 days
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) – American Heart Association; required for all newly hired inexperienced RNs working in PACU, 5I Pediatrics, ER, Armonk Urgent Care, Ambulatory Surgery & 226 Ambulatory Surgery Center within 1 year, and for newly hired experienced nurses within 180 days
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) – American Heart Association; required for all RNs working in the Mother‑Baby unit, Labor & Delivery, and NICU; required for newly hired nurses to the NICU, L&D, and Mother‑Baby within 6…