Travel Nurse RN – Labor/Delivery – $2,720 per week in Albuquerque, NM

Job Description

Job Title: Registered Nurse
Profession: Nursing
Specialty: Family Birthing Center/Labor & Delivery
Duration: 13 Weeks
Shift: 12 Hour Nights
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: Two (2) years current experience required

License: State Nursing License or Compact State Nursing License
Certifications:
– BLS
– NRP
– AWHONN Intermediate or advanced fetal monitoring certifications

Must-Have:
– BLS must be completed through American Heart Association, American Health and Safety, or American Red Cross.
– Traveler must pass the BCA testing during the first week of the assignment. Failure to pass the BCA test will result in dismissal.

Description:
Job Summary:
Assess all triage patients over 20 weeks.
Utilize obstetric triage acuity tools.
Perform labor assessment and evaluation.
Conduct fetal evaluation and assessment.
Evaluate for labor at term, preterm labor signs, signs and symptoms of preeclampsia, rupture of membranes, decreased fetal movement, preterm premature rupture of membranes, vaginal bleeding, and acute and critical conditions.
If an emergency medical condition is determined to exist, stabilize the patient for delivery or transfer to a higher level of care if needed.

Intrapartum:
Assess, evaluate, and care for labor patients.
Conduct fetal evaluation and assessment.
Prepare expectant mothers for safe delivery.
Administer medications including but not limited to Pitocin, misoprostol, methergine, hemabate, magnesium sulfate, terbutaline, labetalol, nifedipine, hydralazine, and insulin.
Stabilize newborns immediately after birth.
Administer newborn medications.
Prepare for scheduled or emergency cesarean delivery.

Postpartum/Newborn:
Assess and care for postpartum patients (both vaginal and cesarean deliveries) and newborns.
Newborn care includes but is not limited to hearing screening, assisting with laboratory draws, intravenous starts and care, medication administration (Hepatitis B, Vitamin K, erythromycin, antibiotics), assistance with circumcisions, care of opiate withdrawal newborns, stabilization of critically ill newborns for transport, phototherapy, and hypoglycemia care.