Sauk Prairie Healthcare·Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Provides professional nursing care to obstetric and newborn patients, including labor, delivery, and postpartum support. Responsibilities include fetal monitoring, triage, assisting providers during procedures, and managing newborn nursery care.
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Title: Registered Nurse – Birth & Women’s Care Center
0.9 FTE (36 hours per 2-week pay period)
Schedule: Three 12-hour shifts per week (nights or rotating day/night)
Holiday Rotation: Per Unit Guidelines
Weekend Rotation: Every third weekend
On Call Requirements: Yes, additional 12 hours of weekend call and 6 hours of weekday call
Provides quality, professional, nursing care to obstetric and newborn patients, including labor and delivery, following all standards, practices, policies and procedures.
Position technical responsibilities
Provide triage for Obstetric outpatients.
Perform a thorough nursing admission assessment, review of health history including prenatal records, and document according to policy.
Initiate fetal monitoring and interpret and document fetal tracing according to guidelines.
Perform vaginal exams.
Monitor progress of laboring mothers and notify provider when appropriate utilizing the Situation Background Assessment Recommendation (SBAR) format.
Support patient’s choice for pain management. Provide labor support to both patients and support for their families.
Perform sterile setup of delivery instruments.
Explain procedures and treatments to patient.
Following hospital policy, prepare patients for a cesarean section; both scheduled and emergent.
Care for patients who are have their labor induced or augmented.
Document all nursing care, according to policy, in the electronic medical record (EMR).
Assist providers during procedures such as internal monitor placement, Amniocentesis or External Cephalic Version.
Assist Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) during the placement of regional anesthesia.
Provide care for the delivering patient.
Perform postpartum care to mothers according to protocol.
Provide lactation support and education.
Perform nursery care for newborns.
Provide bedside shift to shift report utilizing the SBAR format.
Accompany obstetric patients on transfer to another facility.
Care for the newborn requiring additional nursery care such as IV therapy, oxygen.
Respond to life-threatening situations based upon nursing standards, policies, procedures, and protocol.
Maintain strict confidentiality.
Create environment that fosters good team relationships.
Assure that the unit is clean, stocked with the appropriate supplies and equipment is ready for use.
Demonstrate effective communication skills with coworkers, physicians, patients and patients' family members.
Delegate duties to others as appropriate.
Float to other units as necessary.
Participate in department or unit quality improvement activities.
Attend 75% of unit meetings.
May have precepting responsibility for another person.
Treat all patients equally, with compassion and without regard to medical condition, social status, or race.
Protect patients' rights.
Participate in continuing education through staff meetings, online education, webinars, simulation/drills, and case review CMEs.
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Market context
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