Description
- Certification Details
- Required Certifications: NRP, CPR, ACLS, AWHONN Fetal Monitoring Courses
- Job Details
- A hospital in Idaho is in need of a Labor and Delivery RN to work a 13 week travel assignment.
- The nurse will be working 12 hour shifts.
- Job Requirements
- Ideal candidates must have 3 years L&D experience
- Skills in pre-term labor, c-sections and recoveries, and high-risk patients.
- Schedule Information
- The nurse will be working 12 hour shifts.
- Shifts & Scheduling: 06:50-19:20 and 1850-0720am, we put them where the needs are
- Weekend Requirements: Where the needs are we put our traveler
- Holiday Requirements: We try to not schedule travelers but there may be an occasional time we need to do that
- Floating Requirements: Yes we float to the Meridian, Nampa hospitals and have to sit with pts on other floors.
- Unit Specific Information
- L&D/PP/MB (LDRP)
- 2yrs experience required
- Common diagnoses/Types of patients: Preeclampsia, Previa, Twins, Diabetics
- Experience or 'Must have' skills: LDR, circulate the OR
- Additional Details
- # of L&D Beds: 16 and 13 Antepartum beds
- # of OR Suites on the unit for C-Sections: 3
- # of Triage beds: 8
- # of Postpartum beds: 32 beds on Mother Baby Care Unit on another floor. We are on the 2nd floor.
- # of Births per day? Month? Year?: 4194 deliveries in 2023-anywhere from 320-400 per month
- Do you follow AWHONN guidelines for ratios?: Yes
- Are RNs required to titrate drips?: Pitocin, and Insulin
- Common titratable &/or set rate drips: Pitocin commonly used-1-20ml/units, may go up to 40 ml/units
- Is there a Charge Nurse on each shift? Does the charge nurse take an assignment?: Yes, charge does not take pts unless absolutely no nurses
- Are there nurse aids/surgical techs on this unit? Duties?: CSTs every shift
- OB/Neonatologist in house 24/7?: OB Laborist 24/7, Neo's also
- Anesthesia in house 24/7?: Yes, we have a designated CRNA 24/7
- Are there Tele/Monitor Techs on this unit? Are RNs required to read their own strips? What brand are the tele monitors?: No tel techs-if we have pts on Tele the Tel Techs read the cardiac strips
- EFM System: Centricity Perinatal-GE
- Scrub Color/Dress code: We supply scrubs
- How many shifts of unit/department specific orientation?: 1 shift in each area-LD, Antepartum, and LD OR
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