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 Days
Hours per Shift: 12
Experience: Two (2) years current experience
License: State Nursing License
Certifications: BLS, NRP, AWHONN Intermediate or Advanced Fetal Monitoring Certifications
Must-Have: Associate’s Degree in Nursing

Description:
Job Summary:

Antepartum:
Assess all triage patients over 20 weeks.
Use 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:
Conduct labor assessment, evaluation, and care.
Perform 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.
Administer newborn medications.
Prepare for scheduled or emergency cesarean delivery.

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