Travel Nurse RN – Labor/Delivery – $2,563 per week in Westminster, CO

Job Description

Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: RN
Specialty: Labor and Delivery
Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: Night shift
Hours per Shift: 12 hours
Experience: One year experience preferred
License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the NLC
Certifications:
– American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
– Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification
– Electronic Fetal Monitoring (C-EFM) Certification/or Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) Certification

Must-Have:
– Nursing skills and knowledge base specific to specialty.

Description:
Assess patients’ physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
Evaluate patients’ responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
Develop and implement patient plans of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic interventions including IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
Provide patient and family education through assessment of readiness, needs, and abilities.
Provide teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for preferences, values, and needs.
Provide relationship-based care, striving to understand what is important to the individual and actively engaging them in all aspects of care.
Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
Effectively use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
Act as a professional role model for all staff, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.
Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs.
Use standards of care, hospital policies, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
Precept and mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
Seek out learning opportunities and continuing education.
Pursue experiences that reflect current practice to maintain skills and competence.
Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
Evaluate one’s own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in unit-based meetings.
Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, experiences, and safe delivery of care.
Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
Utilize current healthcare research findings and evidence to expand clinical knowledge and enhance role performance.