Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse
Tacoma, WA
Cross Country Nurses
4x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery, Tacoma, WA. This role provides care for high-acuity obstetric patients, including labor management, high-risk deliveries, antepartum care, cesarean births, and postpartum recovery. The position supports fetal monitoring, obstetric triage, operating room circulation, and newborn recovery within a collaborative clinical environment.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shift with 12-hour shifts and a minimum of 48 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Minimum of 2 years of Labor and Delivery nursing experience with previous travel experience.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), and intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring (FHM) certification.
  • High-acuity obstetric experience, including labor management, high-risk deliveries, obstetric triage, operating room circulation, cervical examinations, and interpretation of fetal monitoring strips.
  • Ability to receive and recover newborns as needed.
  • Electronic medical record experience using EPIC.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Five or more years of Labor and Delivery experience.
  • Experience caring for patients with hypertension, magnesium administration, preterm labor, insulin drips, epidurals, inductions, premature rupture of membranes, multiple births, and postpartum hemorrhage.
• Float: Float rotation may be required.
• Additional Information:
  • Patient assignments follow Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) guidelines, including one patient to one nurse for active labor and two to three antepartum patients depending on acuity.
  • Weekend rotation is every other weekend, subject to operational needs.
  • No mandatory call requirements.
  • Orientation includes neonatal training and unit-based orientation, with orientation scheduled during day shifts.
  • Schedule cycles are prepared in six-week increments and released two weeks before the schedule begins.
  • Floating may occur to antepartum, postpartum, or other assignments within the clinicians scope and experience.

Benefits

The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits