Labor and Delivery RN
Lees Summit, Missouri
Saint Luke's East - Lee's Summit

Labor and Delivery

Overview

• Travel/Contract RN/L&D in Lees Summit, Missouri
• Night shift: 3x12 hours, 18:45–7:15
• 36 hours per week
• 13-week contract
• Unit includes L&D and postpartum in the same physical space
• L&D unit houses antepartum and intrapartum patients
• 11 labor rooms and 5 triage rooms
• Postpartum unit has 15 rooms and 2 flex rooms
• Average daily census: 7–10
• Rooms: 28
• Beds: 33

Required Qualifications

• Valid RN license in Missouri
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Labor and Delivery experience within the last year
• 3 years of Labor and Delivery experience
• One completed travel assignment
• BLS issued by American Heart Association
• NRP
• EFM
• Post Partum experience
• Government issued ID
• Pending license accepted
• Home address must be at least 75 miles from the facility

Preferred

• LDRP experience
• LD/LDR experience

Schedule Requirements

• 1:1 ratios on days and nights
• 4–5 weekend shifts per 6-week schedule period
• Minimum of 2 Sunday night shifts and 2 Friday day shifts per 6-week schedule period
• 2 on-call shifts per 6-week schedule period
• No more than 7 days of requested time off

Float Scope

• May float to postpartum unit to provide couplet care or care for postpartum mom only

Clinical Skills and Experience

• Antepartum
• Labor and Delivery
• Low risk
• Triage of obstetrical patients
• Use of EFM / External Fetal Monitoring
• Use of internal fetal monitoring
• Use of IUPC placement and calibration
• Recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns
• Spiral electrode placement
• Assist with sterile speculum exam
• Sterile vaginal exam
• Reflex checks / edema assessment / clonus
• Administration of blood and blood products
• Drawing venous blood
• Starting and maintaining IVs
• Use of infusion pumps / drips / IV monitoring
• Antiseizure, antihypertensives, insulin drips, magnesium sulfate therapy, Pitocin, prostaglandins, terbutaline, and amnioinfusion
• Assist with high risk delivery
• Assist with vaginal delivery
• Circulate for C-section
• Forceps/vacuum extraction
• Hemorrhage/shock
• Recover C-Section
• ID/Security Banding
• Neonatal Resuscitation
• Radiant warmers/thermoregulation
• Epidural anesthesia, general anesthesia, opioids, pain assessment and management, and PCA (IV)
• Breastfeeding support/lactation support
• Episiotomy/incisional care
• Foley catheter insertion/management
• Fundus/lochia/perineum care
• Wound assessment and care
• Vaginal delivery
• Cesarean section
• Bladder distension
• Multiple births
• Postpartum hemorrhage
• Pregnancy induced hypertension
• Isolation precautions/PPE
• Vaccine administration

Additional Notes

• First-timers not accepted
• PeriWatch fetal monitoring application
• Phillips avalon fetal monitors