Labor and Delivery LDRP RN
Freeport, Illinois
Mercyhealth FHN Hospital

LDRP RN

Location: Freeport, Illinois Contract Length: 13 weeks Shift: Nights, 12-hour shifts (days and nights rotation) Hours: 12 hours per day, 36 hours per week

Required Qualifications

• Illinois RN license required to submit
• Certifications: BLS, NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program), and AWHONN intermediate or advanced
• One year of experience, with Labor and Delivery experience required

Preferred

• LDRP experience (ideal to have both L&D and LDRP skills)

Unit Details

• Department: Labor and Delivery
• Beds: 7 L&D beds, 2 triage beds, 7 postpartum beds
• OR: 1 OR suite on the unit for C-Sections. The OR circulates and recovers patients, and nurses stabilize babies and provide couplet care after recovery. Nurses also care for clean gyn patients such as hysterectomies (vaginal and abdominal).
• Volume: About 255 births annually
• Ratios: Follows AWHONN guidelines
• Common diagnoses: Labor, preeclampsia, HTN, obesity, gestational diabetes, and preterm labor (GA 32 weeks/1500 grams; anything less is transferred). Babies may be on oxygen for up to 6 hours. If not improving or needing more support, they are transferred out.
• Titratable drips: Pitocin and insulin. RNs are required to titrate drips.
• Support staff: Charge nurse/rounder takes a full assignment with lower acuity. Two day-shift unit secretaries/CNAs handle clerical work, helping on the unit, and phlebotomy.
• Coverage: OB hospitalists are in house 24/7, with one local OB within 5 minutes. Neonatology is not in house. Anesthesia is in house for M-F day shift and within 30 minutes at other times. RT equipment is available, and RT attends if complications arise.
• Telemetry: Telemetry needs are covered by remote monitoring, and a tech from the Telemetry unit reads the strips. Nurses do not read strips.

Schedule and Requirements

• Staffing: Self-staffed unit. A scheduling committee of unit staff creates the schedule with leadership approval.
• Weekends: Every other to every third weekend
• Holidays: Half of holidays, switching each year
• On-call: Required when leave or vacation coverage is needed. Equates to 1-2 12-hour shifts per 6-week period, which can be split into 4-hour blocks, with a 30-minute callback time.
• Floating: Only in critical need. May float to MS (Med-Surg) as helping hands or sitter, but would not take a full patient assignment.
• Orientation: Department-specific orientation, up to 3 shifts
• Attire: Hospital-provided scrubs; waterproof non-slip shoes
• Prior employment: Travelers with previous employment at any facility location in the system must disclose it on their resume or elsewhere in the submission for a DNU check.