Travel Nurse RN - Labor and Delivery - $2,981 per week
Company: Memorial Hospital - Bakersfield
Location: Bakersfield
Posted on: October 26, 2024
Job Description:
- Certification Details
- Certs: BLS & ACLS (MUST BE THROUGH AHA), NRP (Neonatal
Resuscitation Program), & AWHONN-Advanced
- Licensure: Current CA RN License
- Doc System: CERNER REQUIRED
- Job Details
- A hospital in California is looking for an experienced L/D
nurse for a travel contract.
- The right candidate will have 2 full years of experience.
- Job Requirements
- Hold an active BLS, ACLS, NRP, Advanced AWHONN and CA License.
- Schedule Information
- Shifts/Hours: 12 hours; 7a - 7p/7p - 7a
- Weekends: Usually every other weekend (same as perm staff)
- Breaks: 1/2 hour break (clock-out); 3 - 15 min breaks per shift
(CA Law)
- Unit Specific Information
- Ratios: Per ACOG Guidelines (2:1) - MUST BE COMFORTABLE TAKING
2 PATIENTS!!
- Add'l Equipment: Pagers linked to call light system & internal
spectralink phones
- Unit Orientation: 2 shifts on the unit.
- Nurse Aides: No nurse aides, but do have OB techs that help w/
C-sections & assist as needed with baby cares.
- Types of patients: High risk patients, some multiple births (up
to triplets usually), run insulin gtts, run mag drips; for
C-section will circulate and recover; no other surgeries on unit
unless tubal or emergent hyster needed; no elective abortions; will
recover babies (skin to skin) after delivery; have techs that help
as well; make sure the nurses are true L&D as their Post-partum
nurses are separate--need C-section experience; must be strong
L&D! Have a lot of protocols in place to help with cares--try
to give a couple days on the unit as orientation; please note the
charting is NOT by exception only--they must chart everything!!
Have level 3 almost level 4 NICU that attends high risk deliveries.
Must be used to a fast, busy unit! Deliver over 300 per month!
- Floating: Closed Unit--No floating
- Additional Details
- ACLS, Advanced Fetal Monitoring, BLS, NRP
- *NO FIRST TIME TRAVELERS*
- **CERNER IS REQUIRED!**
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