Labor and Delivery RN
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mercy Hospital

Labor and Delivery

Location

• Coon Rapids, Minnesota

Job details

• Travel/contract role
• Night shift, 3x12 hours
• 36 hours per week
• First-time travelers accepted
• Every other weekend required
• Will float as needed
• Block scheduling not accommodated
• Local candidates not accepted within a 100-mile radius
• Pending license accepted
• Ideally no more than 5 days of requested time off

Experience

• 2 years of labor and delivery experience with postpartum experience required

Required qualifications

• Valid RN license in Minnesota
• Associate of Science in Nursing / Associate Degree in Nursing
• Labor and Delivery experience within the last year
• BLS issued by American Heart Association or American Red Cross
• NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation Procedure issued by American Heart Association
• Sterile vaginal exam experience
• External fetal monitoring experience
• Internal fetal monitoring experience
• IUPC (intrauterine pressure catheter) placement and calibration experience
• Recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns
• Experience administering Pitocin (oxytocin)
• Experience managing and administering epidural anesthesia
• Post Partum experience

Unit information

• Mother-baby center
• RNs work in labor and postpartum
• Average daily census: 8 deliveries/day and 15 postpartum patients/day

Additional notes

• Scrubs are provided by the unit
• No on-call requirement
• Epic charting
• Acute care teaching hospital with Level 2 trauma designation
• 258 staffed beds
• No parking fees