Labor & Delivery Nurse
Santa Maria, CA
TheraEX Staffing Services
3x12 hrs, Nights

Trauma Level:
3
Charting System:
Cerner

Unit Notes
- Unit: L&D/PP
- # L&D Beds: 14 beds
- # triage beds: 6 triage beds, 2 OR suites
- # Postpartum beds: 28 beds
- # births per day, per year: 250 births per month
- Certs: ACLS, BLS, Fetal HM - AWOHNN (adv) for L&D, BLS, NRP required for Postpartum
- Ratios: 2 to 1 laboring, follow AWOHNN guidelines, 1 to 4 couplet care
- FHM System: Fetal Link
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: yes - they try not to take a patient assignment
- Nurse Aides/OB tech: OB tech - yes, day and night shift
- Weekend Requirement: every other
- Call Requirement: no - may have to be on standby
- Holidays: they will work them in with perm staff rotation
- Scrub Color: Nurses - navy for PP, ob tech and L&D nurses - seal blue (provided)
- Tele: Phillips
- Vents: No
- OB/Neonataologist in house: No but available if needed
- IV Team: No
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts - 7a-7p or 7p-7a
- C-section experience required: Will be required to circulate for c-sections. Scrubbing experience is preferred.
- Floating: They will have to float to postpartum, PP will NOT have to float to L&D
- Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: any gestational age, antepartum, high risk deliveries, substance abuse, pre-eclampsia, insulin dependent diabetics