L&D Postpartum RN
San Marcos, CA
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Post Partum Floor. This position provides nursing care for postpartum patients and newborns during 12-hour night shifts. Responsibilities include maternal-newborn education, monitoring, medication administration, clinical assessments, and support for high-risk obstetric and neonatal needs.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts are 12 hours, with a minimum of 36 hours per week.
• Required Qualifications: Graduate of an accredited nursing program; Registered Nurse License in the state where care is provided; Basic Life Support certification; Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification; Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification; at least 1 year of recent full-time equivalent nursing experience within the last 3 years; demonstrated ability to perform electronic fetal monitoring, intravenous skills, laboratory draws, urine point-of-care testing, capillary blood glucose testing, adult cardiac monitoring, newborn pulse oximetry and cardiac monitoring, heel sticks and venipuncture on newborns; knowledge of high-risk medication administration, including magnesium, oxytocin, and insulin; knowledge of newborn medications, intravenous administration and maintenance, bilirubin blankets and lights, radiant warmers, and i-STAT testing; ability to support gynecologic teaching, postoperative bladder training, and maternal-newborn education.
• Preferred Qualifications: Bachelors degree in nursing or a related field; at least 3 years of labor and delivery experience; at least 3 years of postpartum experience; at least 1 year of medical-surgical nursing experience.
• Additional Information:
  • Provides care for postpartum patients and newborns.
  • Supports maternal-newborn teaching and gynecologic education.
  • Performs fetal, maternal, and newborn monitoring.
  • Administers high-risk medications and newborn medications according to clinical requirements.
  • Performs laboratory draws, point-of-care testing, glucose testing, heel sticks, and newborn venipuncture.
  • Supports postoperative bladder training and newborn care using radiant warmers and bilirubin lights.

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