Travel Nurse RN - Labor and Delivery - $2,142 per week Job Listing at Heywood Hospital in Gardner, MA (Job ID 5406389-2024-10-01)

Description

Certification Details
• CPR required
• NRP certified or ability to obtain NRP certification within 90 days of hire
• AHA-ACLS required for L&D
• Must have/complete AWHONN's Introduction to Fetal Monitoring
• Must have/attend AWHONN's Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring within 1 year

Job Details
• Essential Functions: Assesses (and reassesses), plans, implements, and evaluates nursing interventions/plans of care/patient goals.
• Provides patient care based on standards of care, standards of practice, protocols, and established policies and procedures.
• Respects each patient as an individual; provides care that fosters the patient's sense of dignity and positive self-regard.
• Provides patient/family teaching based on identified learning needs, readiness to learn, and barriers to learning.
• Collaboratively plans and prepares patient/family for discharge incorporating support systems/resources as necessary.
• Appropriately delegates and supervises nursing interventions performed by others.
• Appropriately prioritizes patient care (e.g., seeks assistance as needed from appropriate resources, reassigns personnel as necessary, recognizes the need for emergency intervention, etc.).
• Provides thorough, timely, and accurate documentation of all pertinent data, therapeutic interventions, and patient responses according to established standards.
• Provides timely and thorough report on assigned patients to other health care team members to ensure integration of services and continuity of patient care.
• Promotes learning for colleagues and self (e.g., functions as a preceptor, instructor, trainer, attends professional development programs, etc.).
• Proactively identifies risk to patient safety and identifies opportunities to reduce medical/health care errors (i.e., appropriate reporting of errors/incidents).
• Identifies ethical issues in care and develops a plan to address.
• Statement of Other Duties: This document describes the major duties and responsibilities for this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that employees may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

Job Requirements
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Minimum one-year med/surg experience required
• Maternity experience preferred
• Current MA license
• IV competent, CPR required
• NRP certified or ability to obtain NRP certification within 90 days of hire.
• AHA-ACLS required for L&D
• For nurses working L&D, must have/complete AWHONN's Introduction to Fetal Monitoring and also must have/attend AWHONN's Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring within 1 year