L&D RN
Phoenix, Arizona
Maricopa Medical Center

L&D RN

Overview

• Travel/Contract role in Phoenix, Arizona
• Night shift: 3x12 hours, 19:00–7:30
• 36 hours per week
• Ratios: 1–2 couplets
• Contract length: 13 weeks
• Local candidates accepted
• First-time travelers may be considered with at least 5 years of experience
• Floating: occasionally to PostPartum if within scope
• On-call: not required
• Block scheduling: not accepted

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Arizona
• Labor and Delivery (3 years of experience)
• Labor and Delivery experience within the last year
• ACLS issued by American Heart Association
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• NRP
• AWHONN Intermediate
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Antepartum experience

Preferred Qualifications

• AWHONN Advanced
• C-EFM
• RNC-OB

Unit / Setting

• Antepartum
• LDRP
• Mother/Baby

Key Skills and Experience

• Assist with sterile speculum exam
• NST
• Reflex checks / edema assessment / clonus
• Sterile vaginal exam
• External and internal fetal monitoring
• IUPC placement and calibration
• Recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns
• Blood and blood product administration
• Venous blood draw
• Peripheral IV start and maintenance
• Infusion pumps / drips / IV monitoring
• Medication administration
• Postpartum care and procedures
• Amnioinfusion
• High risk delivery support
• Vaginal delivery support
• Circulate for C-section
• Forceps/vacuum extraction
• Hemorrhage/shock
• Recover C-section
• Neonatal care in delivery room
• Cord care
• Discharge teaching to parents
• Infant identification
• Newborn assessment
• Newborn hypoglycemia
• Epidural anesthesia / general anesthesia / pain assessment and management
• Postpartum care for vaginal delivery, cesarean section, couplet care, multiple births, postpartum hemorrhage, and pregnancy induced hypertension
• Isolation precautions / PPE
• Vaccine administration

Preferred Skills

• Facility births/month >300
• High Risk Antepartum
• Amniocentesis assistance
• Triage of obstetrical patients
• Spiral electrode placement
• Circumcision assistance and post-op site assessment
• Car seat education
• Metabolic screen
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
• Phototherapy
• Circumcision care teaching to parents
• PCA (IV)
• Cervical cerclage
• D & C
• Tubal ligation
• Transition newborn
• Level III L&D