Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery

Job Overview

The Clinical Nurse (CN) II provides Family-Centered Care as demonstrated by recognizing the patient, family and/or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Assumes active role in clinical education of patients, families and staff. Functions effectively within nursing and inter‑professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care.

Integrates best current evidence with clinical expertise for delivery of optimal health care. Uses data to monitor the outcomes of care processes and uses improvement methods to test changes to continuously improve the quality and safety of health care systems. Minimizes risk of harm to patients and providers through both system effectiveness and individual performance. Uses information and technology to communicate, manage knowledge, mitigate error, and support decision‑making.

The Labor and Delivery department at the Colorado Fetal Care Center (CFCC) at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) offers care for perinatal care for expecting mothers with almost any fetal condition, regardless of how rare or critical. Located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, it is one of the largest and most technologically advanced fetal care centers in the country. Our team of specialized MDs, anesthesiologists, RNs, surgical technicians and sonographers are highly trained to provide a deep level of experience and expertise for a vast array of rare and complex conditions.

As a nurse on our team, you will collaborate regularly with maternal fetal medicine specialists and neonatologists. Families cared for in the Colorado Fetal Care Center, who seek our expertise in congenital conditions and fetal anomalies, often transition to the NICU for care after birth, providing team members with unique opportunities to provide coordinated care to families facing rare diagnoses such as congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), bladder outlet obstruction, twin‑to‑twin transfusion and myelomeningocele.

Specialized interventions in our NICU include extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), therapeutic hypothermia and inhaled nitric oxide.

Department Name:
Labor and Delivery
Job Status: full‑time, 36 hours per week, eligible for benefits
Shift: rotating days and nights

This position is eligible for relocation assistance, if relocating from 100 miles or greater.

• Family‑Centered Care:
  Recognize the patient or designee as the source of control and full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for patient’s preferences, values, and needs. Deliver patient and family‑centered care incorporating the nursing process while providing developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, and evidence‑based care. Actively anticipate changes in patient outcomes and unit needs. Care is guided by the Professional Practice Model throughout the continuum of care.
  
  Communicate and advocate patient values, preferences and expressed needs as part of implementation of the care plan, evaluation of care, and assessment of patient/family learning needs to the interdisciplinary team. Initiate and anticipate individualized care and education for patients/families across the continuum using an interdisciplinary approach.
• Teamwork &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Function effectively within nursing and inter‑professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision‑making to achieve quality patient care. Apply communication practices that minimize risks across transitions of care. Present own perspective and supporting evidence in patient care and team discussions. Collaborate with team members in shared decision‑making.
• Evidence‑Based Practice:
  Integrate best current evidence with clinical expertise and patient/family preferences and values for delivery of optimal health care. Identify key concepts of research and evidence‑based practice. Participate in structuring the work environment to facilitate integration of new evidence into standards of practice. Recognize and communicate the need for…