Labor and Delivery RN
Bakersfield, CA
Secure Nursing Service LLC
3x12 hrs, Nights

Unit

Labor and Delivery

Guaranteed Hours

36 hours per week

Years of Experience

2 Years

Required Certifications

ACLS, Advanced Fetal Monitoring, BLS Certification, NRP

Shift Notes

Nights, EOW, first to float

Charting System

Cerner

Unit Notes
This is a Nurse Shift Manager(NSM) position. RN must have strong Charge experience. 

**Will take L&D, recovery, postpartum, women's health patients, recovering of babies. High risk OB. Transfer out for major maternal or fetal complications, if mom has major cardiac issue or baby needs surgery.**

- # beds: 18 LDRP rooms + 6 triage spaces + 8 beds shared w/ med surg that are women's care center overflow such as hysters, slings, etc, 2 OR rooms that nurses self circulate
- Certs: BLS, ACLS, NRP, AWHONN advanced fetal monitoring required
- Ratios: Follow CA state guidelines; 4 to 1 couplets 3 to 1 stable antepartums; 2 to 1 L&D; 1 to 1 for deliveries (a second NRP nurse is in every birth so nurse not only nurse in delivery)
- EMR: Cerner, fetal links, HUGS for infant security
- Charge Nurse: Nurse Manager is the supervisor who covers 24/7 (12 hr shifts) and then L&D and each has a resource nurse who is like a charge nurse who helps w/ breaks etc
- Nurse Aides: OB techs that scrub
- Weekend Requirement: 4 weekend shifts per every weeks (usually two days together and the other two spread apart)
- Holidays: Must work a major and a minor
- Scrub Color: L&D scrubs are provided, but they need to have navy blue scrubs as well and they want the nurses to wear navy scrubs to work each day to change out of
- Tele: remove fetal monitoring
- Vents: none
- OB and anesthesia: 24/7 in house coverage
- IV Team: Must be able to start own IV's
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes