Travel Nurse RN - Labor and Delivery - $2,453 per week

Company: Island Health
Location: Anacortes
Posted on: November 4, 2024

Job Description:

• Certification Details
• BLS, NRP required
• AWHONN EFM (intermediate, or advanced), Stable, ACLS preferred
  • Job Details
  • A hospital on a beautiful island in Washington is in need of an L&D RN to work a 13 week travel assignment.
    • Job Requirements
    • - Required Certifications: BLS, NRP
    • - Preferred Certifications: AWHONN EFM (intermediate, or advanced), Stable, ACLS
    • - Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Term labor, gestational hypertension, gestational diabetes, induction of labor, SROM, term newborn, late preterm newborn, newborn jaundice
    • - Experience or 'Must have' skills: Must have triage, labor and delivery, recovery, postpartum, newborn stabilization, newborn care experience. Prefer charge experience
    • - Are RNs required to titrate drips?: Yes
    • - Common titratable &/or set rate drips: Pitocin, Magnesium, insulin, TXA
    • - Charge Nurse/House Supervisor? Does the charge nurse take an assignment?: Yes, ideally out of staffing
      • Schedule Information
      • - Shifts & Scheduling: 12 hour shifts, 7a-7:30p, 7p-7:30a
      • - Weekend Requirements: Yes, based on the needs at the time
      • - Holiday Requirements: Yes, based on the needs at the time
      • - Is there a call or standby requirement?: Yes, called on off on low census, they would take call
      • - Managers do the schedule
        • Unit Specific Information
        • - Unit: L&D/PP/MB
        • - # L&D Beds: 4 (separate from postpartum beds)
        • - # OR Suites on the unit for C-Sections?: OR does their c-sections
        • - # Triage beds: One of the L&D rooms we use for triage
        • - # Postpartum beds: 4
        • - # Births per day? Month? Year?: 0-4/day, 40-50/month, 554 in 2022
        • - Do you follow AWHONN guidelines for ratios?: Yes
        • - Are there nurse aids/surgical techs on this unit?: Nursing aids, they work 12 hours but are not scheduled every day
        • - OB/Neonatologist in house 24/7?: No, on call 24/7. Peds on call. CNM's and providers
        • - Anesthesia in house 24/7?: No, on call 24/7
        • - RT Equipment (vents, Cpap, BiPap, etc.): Neopuff, CPAP, hi-flow available
        • - Are there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Are RNs required to read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors?: GE monitors for EFM System, Obix for documentation
          • Additional Details
          • **50 mile radius rule**
          • - Unit/Department specific orientation: 2 Shifts.
          • - Floating Requirements?: Not typically but occasionally. Not for a patient assignment (ex. Sitter)
          • - Scrub Color/Dress code: Navy Blue, provided.

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