Description

American Traveler is hiring an experienced RN for an LDRP unit requiring 2 years of recent L&D/postpartum experience and the ability to manage laboring patients autonomously.

Details

• Acute care critical access hospital setting within Women's Services on a secure LDRP unit
• 6-bed unit combining labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum care with 1 dedicated OR suite for C-sections
• Approximately 160 births per year (12-17 per month)
• Follows AWHONN staffing guidelines with 2 RNs per shift
• RN cares for laboring and postpartum patients, well mom/baby, high-risk and critical patients, inductions, hypertensive crisis, and hemorrhage protocol cases
• No twin or triplet deliveries; will stabilize and transfer as needed
• RNs serve as newborn nurse during C-sections (non-circulating) and care for both mom and baby couplets for the first few hours
• RNs titrate drips including Mag and Pitocin (and Insulin if transferring out)
• OB providers are in clinic M-F and called in for laboring patients; shared hospitalist coverage with peds physician on-site weekdays and on-call nights/weekends
• Anesthesia available on-call with a 30-minute response time after hours
• EFM system used is Centricity; EMR is Epic
• PRN respiratory therapy equipment available (nasal cannula, nonrebreathers)
• 12-hour night shifts on a 7-7 schedule with self-scheduling alongside core staff
• 48 hours per week guaranteed
• Weekend and holiday requirements equitably distributed with core staff
• No call or standby requirement
• Floating may include helping hands or safety attendant duties, not picking up shifts in other departments

Requirements

• Active RN license (ID state or compact) required at time of submission
• Current certifications required: BLS, ACLS, NRP, STABLE, and AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring
• Minimum 2 years of LDRP experience required; strong recent labor experience considered with some LDRP or postpartum experience within the last few years
• Newborn stabilization experience required
• Must be comfortable managing laboring patients autonomously and independently, especially nights and weekends
• Two professional references required: one supervisor from within the last 12 months worked and one peer or supervisor from within the last 3 years worked, including employment dates and rehire eligibility
• Copy of driver's license required for consideration

Additional Information

• Core staff typically serve as charge nurse with house supervisor support available
• No nurse aides or surgical techs currently on the unit, though hiring is underway
• RNs are not required to read their own fetal monitoring strips
• Surgical scrubs required; personal scrubs permitted except in delivery, where surgical scrubs are required
• Unit orientation includes 1 facility day plus Epic training and 2 twelve-hour shifts on the unit
• Candidates must live outside a 50-mile radius of the facility to be eligible; no local candidates accepted
• Former permanent employees must be separated for at least one year before applying for a travel assignment
• No blocked scheduling or special scheduling requests will be accommodated