Travel Nurse RN - Labor and Delivery
Ketchum, ID
Talent4Health
3x12 hrs, Days, Flexible

Responsibilities

• Provide LDRP care for laboring, postpartum, well-baby and well-mom patients
• Manage inductions, hypertensive crises, and hemorrhage protocols
• Stabilize high-risk/critical patients prior to transfer (no twins or triplets)
• Provide couplet care for mom and baby during initial postpartum period
• Serve as newborn nurse during C-sections (does not circulate)
• Titrate OB drips including Magnesium and Pitocin
• Work autonomously with OB providers, especially nights and weekends
• Document and chart in EPIC; utilize Centricity for fetal monitoring
• Float as helping hands/safety attendant as needed

Requirements

Experience

• Minimum 2 years LDRP experience
• Strong L&D experience required
• Recent LDRP or Postpartum experience within the last few years if primarily L&D
• Newborn stabilization experience required
• Comfortable managing labor independently and autonomously

Licenses / Certifications

• BLS
• ACLS
• NRP
• STABLE (or AWHONN Intermediate/Advanced to obtain)

Staffing & Ratios

• Follows AWHONN guidelines
• 2 RNs per shift
• Charge RN usually core staff; House Supervisor available
• No nurse aides or surgical techs currently

Providers & Support

• OB not in-house (on call; clinic M–F)
• Peds MD onsite M–F days; on call nights/weekends
• Shared hospitalist coverage with Med-Surg
• Anesthesia on call after hours (30-minute response time)
• RT equipment: PRN nasal cannula, non-rebreather

Scheduling

• Self-scheduling with core staff
• Weekends and holidays equitably distributed
• No call or standby requirement

Scrubs

• Surgical scrubs provided for deliveries; personal scrubs allowed otherwise

Job ID: T4H - 914