Travel Nurse RN - Labor and Delivery
Livingston, NJ
Prime Staffing
3x12 hrs, Nights

Travel RN – Labor & Delivery (L&D)
Location: Livingston, NJ 07039
Contract Duration: 13 Weeks
Shift: Night Shift | 6:30 PM – 7:30 AM
Schedule: 3x12-hour shifts
 

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Labor & Delivery Registered Nurse to provide comprehensive nursing care to antepartum, labor and delivery, postpartum, and newborn patients. The RN must be experienced in high-risk obstetrics, fetal monitoring, C-section procedures, and maternal-newborn care.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care to low- and high-risk laboring and antepartum patients.
• Monitor fetal heart rates and recognize and respond to abnormal fetal heart rate patterns.
• Assist with vaginal deliveries, high-risk deliveries, and emergency obstetric situations.
• Circulate, scrub, and recover C-section patients.
• Manage obstetric emergencies, including hemorrhage, shock, preterm labor, and pre-eclampsia.
• Perform OB triage, NSTs, amnioinfusion, and other obstetric procedures.
• Provide postpartum care, including fundus, lochia, perineal, and wound assessments.
• Support breastfeeding, lactation education, newborn assessment, and neonatal resuscitation.
• Administer medications, IV therapies, blood products, and epidural-related care within scope.
• Float to Antepartum, Labor & Delivery PACU, and Postpartum units as needed.

Requirements

• Minimum 2+ years of Labor & Delivery nursing experience.
• Active New Jersey or Compact RN license. Pending NJ license accepted.
• Current ACLS, BLS, NRP, and FHM certifications required.
• Epic charting experience required.
• Must have C-section circulating experience.
• Strong experience in high-risk antepartum and labor and delivery care.
• First-time travelers accepted.
• Local candidates accepted at the same rate.

Clinical Skills

• High-risk antepartum and labor management.
• External and internal fetal monitoring.
• C-section circulating, scrubbing, and recovery.
• Forceps and vacuum-assisted deliveries.
• Amnioinfusion, NST, OCT, and IUPC placement.
• Pitocin, insulin drips, antihypertensives, and other obstetric medications.
• Postpartum hemorrhage and pre-eclampsia management.
• Neonatal resuscitation, APGAR scoring, newborn assessment, and thermoregulation.
• Mother-Baby and couplet care.

Schedule & Unit Details

• Patient ratio: 1:1–2.
• Every other weekend required.
• Floating required to Antepartum, L&D, L&D PACU, and Postpartum within the nurse’s skill set.
• 12 hours of orientation listed; additional facility modules are non-billable.
• Hospital-provided scrubs.
• Facility may call off one shift every two weeks.
• Must work or provide on-call coverage for winter holidays as required.