Travel Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse

Position: Travel Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse - $3,200 per week
Formation, Inc. is seeking a travel nurse RN Labor and Delivery for a travel nursing job in Redwood City, California.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty:
Labor and Delivery

• Discipline: RN

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Start Date:

• Duration: 13 weeks

• 36 hours per week

• Shift: 12 hours, nights

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Employment Type:

Travel

Job & Shift
Unit
Labor & Delivery
Unit Type
L&D (Labor and Delivery)
Division
Nursing
Care Setting
Acute
Shift Length
12
Guaranteed Hours
36 hours per week
Years of Experience
2 Years
License to Submit
Yes
BSN Required
No
Orientation Hours
12 Hours
Required Certifications
ACLS, Advanced Fetal Monitoring, BLS Certification, NRP
Shift Notes
7p-7a, EOW first to float

Additional Details
Trauma Level
--
- Charting System
Cerner
Unit Notes
- Ratios:
Per ACOG and Cali; 1:3 or 1:4 couplets
- EMR:
Cerner power chart maternity and Cerner fetal links for FHM
- Charge Nurse:
Yes--will triage patients
- Nurse Aides: OB techs will function as aides when no cases
- Weekend Requirement:
Every other weekend (Fri/Sat noc, Sat/Sun days)
- Holidays Rotate w/ staff (one of every 3 majors)
- Scrub Color:
Ceil blue provided by hospital
- Hospitalist or Intensivist in house: Anesthesia can be 20 min away from hospital but usually are in house), if in active labor are in house; 90% of population elects for epidural; after hours and weekends have private OB/GYN physicians but during week and day they are at their private practices
- IV Team:
No
- RT 24/7:
Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7:then satellite

- Shifts:

7a, 7p start times
- Floating:
To PP in rotation with perm staff
- Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts on unit, 2 L&D, 1 MB
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients:
Level 2 NICU on site that is staffed by Stanford nurse; 32 weeks and above; rarely will see some GYN clean patient overflow;
Stanford NICU nurses attend each delivery
- Additional Notes: LDRP rooms are new, PP rooms are older; have lactation nurses on staff during day and they will write the lactation care plan on white board; not a locked unit but do use hugs and kisses infant security system; patient population is a higher socioeconomic status w/ median maternal age of 37; higher mandarin speaking volume and use translation services via vocera phones;

everyone helps w/ triage and NST
- Additional Questions:
** call is not required, but it is optional--at times, if low census will be placed on call for 4 hour increments during shift; if placed on call need to be within 20 minutes of hospital--there is a sleep room in hospital which can be utilized

About Formation, Inc.

Formation Healthcare is a leading Travel Nursing agency based in Los Angeles, CA. Travel nurses need knowledgeable, motivated recruiters they can trust, and the highest rates at the top facilities nationwide. Nurses, we hear you! We’re here to help you focus on your patients worry-free, we’ll focus on the rest. Don’t settle for less than you deserve, call Formation Healthcare for your next travel assignment and see the difference, today!

Benefits

• Weekly pay

• License and certification reimbursement

• Mileage reimbursement

• Sick pay

• Guaranteed Hours