LDRP RN
Ketchum, Idaho
St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center

LDRP RN

Location

• Ketchum, Idaho

Contract

• 13 weeks
• 12-hour nights
• 48 hours per week

Unit

• Women’s Services - LDRP - Flr 2
• 6 L&D beds in a secure unit
• 1 OR suite dedicated for C-sections

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Idaho
• Labor and Delivery (2 years of experience)
• Labor and Delivery experience within the last year
• ACLS
• AWHONN Advanced Fetal Monitoring (AFM)
• BLS
• NRP
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Experience working with Neonate patients
• Experience working with High Risk Labor and Delivery patients
• Experience managing laboring patients autonomously and independently
• Newborn stabilization

Preferred Qualifications

• AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced
• Strong L&D experience
• Recent labor experience
• Some LDRP or PP experience in the last few years in addition to labor experience

Clinical Details

• Works with laboring and postpartum patients, well baby, and well mom
• Handles high-risk and critical patients, postpartum, induction, hypertensive crisis, and hemorrhage protocol
• No twins or triplets
• Stabilizes until transfer
• In C-sections, serves as newborn nurse and does not circulate
• Cares for both mom and baby for the first couple hours
• Common drips include Mag and Pit; Insulin if transferring out

Schedule and Operations

• 2 RN staff per shift
• Charge RN is typically a core nurse, with house supervisor support
• No nurse aides or surgical techs currently on the unit
• OB is not in house; available in clinic Monday through Friday and called in for laboring patients
• Peds physician is available days Monday through Friday for newborns and on call nights/weekends
• Anesthesia is on call after hours with a 30-minute response time
• Tele/monitor techs are not required, and RNs do not need to read their own strips
• EFM system: Centricity
• Self-scheduling with core staff
• Weekends and holidays are equitably distributed with core staff
• No call or standby requirement

Floating

• May float to helping hands or safety attendant roles
• Not for picking up shifts in other departments
• Must be comfortable with floating/tasking from time to time

Orientation

• 1 facility day of orientation
• Epic orientation
• 2 unit shifts of orientation

Dress Code

• Surgical scrubs; own scrubs allowed unless in delivery, where surgical scrubs are worn

Housing

• Housing must be researched, pay package approved, and offer signed within 24 hours before proceeding