RN, Perinatal Newborn Float Pool

Department Overview

The Perinatal Newborn Float Pool offers a unique opportunity to provide comprehensive, family-centered care across OHSU’s specialized Women's Services units. Float pool nurses care for patients throughout the perinatal continuum, supporting families from labor and birth through postpartum recovery while collaborating with highly skilled interdisciplinary teams.

The Labor & Delivery Unit includes 12 labor rooms, a 4-bed triage area, three dedicated operating rooms, and a two-bay PACU. Nurses care for a diverse patient population ranging from low-intervention and water births supported by a robust midwifery practice to the region's most medically complex maternal and fetal patients. Working alongside maternal-fetal medicine specialists, neonatologists, pediatric surgeons, and specialty care coordinators, nurses provide innovative, evidence-based care utilizing the latest advances in obstetric and neonatal medicine.

The Mother Baby Unit is a 27-bed unit providing postpartum, antepartum, and gynecologic care for low- and high-risk patients. Nurses deliver compassionate, culturally responsive, family-centered care to mothers, newborns, antepartum patients, and surgical gynecology patients with varying levels of acuity.

This float pool role is ideal for adaptable nurses who thrive in dynamic clinical environments, enjoy caring for diverse patient populations, and are passionate about delivering exceptional, equitable care across the childbirth journey. Float pool nurses play an integral role in maintaining continuity of care while supporting the mission of providing safe, high-quality outcomes for patients and families.

The Labor & delivery and Mother Baby Units combined provide intrapartum, antepartum and newborn care to low and at risk populations. Care is provided based on acuity, patient type and is in line with the Association of Obstetric, Women’s Health and Neonatal Nurses Guidelines for patients care (AWHONN).

Here are some reasons to be excited about the Labor & Delivery program at OHSU:

• OHSU is a Magnet designated teaching hospital.
• There is 24x7 Attending and multidisciplinary Provider coverage so you will have the support you need at all times.
• We staff to AWHONN standards.
• This unit has a Maternal Cardiac program.
• We have a Fetal Surgery program, supporting the following among other things:
  • Intrauterine Fetal Neural Tube Defect repair
  • Intrauterine ablations for twin-to-twin transfusions (TTTS)
  • Fetal blood transfusions
  • Amniotic fluid reduction
• 80% of the nurses on this unit hold advanced certifications.
• Our nurses are represented on our Shared Governance committee.
• The state of Oregon is among the top 10 across the country in terms of RN pay.
• This is a night shift only position. There are no rotations between night and day shift.