Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse
Dickson, TN
Cross Country Nurses
3x12 hrs, Nights
Referral Bonus

Job Summary

Registered Nurse, Labor and Delivery, Dickson, TN The registered nurse provides comprehensive care for laboring patients, postpartum patients, and newborns in a labor, delivery, recovery, and postpartum setting. Responsibilities include labor and delivery care, newborn assessment and transition, fetal monitoring, and support for obstetric procedures and emergencies. The role offers experience across labor, delivery, postpartum, and neonatal care within a collaborative team environment.

Job Details

• Schedule: Night shifts consisting of 12-hour shifts, a minimum of 36 hours per week, with three shifts per week and rotating weekend and holiday coverage.
• Required Qualifications:
  • Labor and delivery experience, including the ability to labor and recover the mother and receive, transition, and assess the newborn.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification.
  • Fetal monitoring training.
• Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience managing shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, and other obstetric emergencies.
  • Experience with inductions using Pitocin or Cervidil.
• Additional Information:
  • Patient care may include active labor, inductions, cesarean sections, couplet care, newborn stabilization, and intermediate neonatal care.
  • Procedures may include circumcisions, intrauterine monitoring, and vacuum- or forceps-assisted deliveries.
  • Patient ratios may range from one-to-one for active labor, inductions, cesarean sections, unstable newborns, and selected neonatal care to one-to-three for couplet care and intermediate neonatal care.
  • Daily patient rounding and safety rounding are expected.
  • Staff may float within the facility when coverage needs require; cross-training may support assignments between labor, delivery, recovery, postpartum, and neonatal care.
  • Pink and/or brown scrubs are required in accordance with the units infant security policy.
  • The care team includes experienced nurses who support orientation, clinical development, and precepting.

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