Registered Nurse -Labor & Delivery PRN

Job Description – Registered Nurse – Labor & Delivery PRN (as needed) (7469‑1313)

Registered Nurse – Labor & Delivery PRN (as needed) – 7469‑1313

As a part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, our community hospital is being supported with more resources than ever before. Duke LifePoint combines Duke University Health System's unparalleled expertise in clinical excellence, quality and patient safety with LifePoint Health's financial resources and extensive operational experience - making our hospital even stronger.

Labor and Delivery/ Nursery/ Neonatal ICU – Frye’s Fifth Avenue Birthing Center provide a variety of services from prenatal care to labor and delivery. Made up of six delivery suites, a well-baby nursery and Level II Neonatal ICU, our specially trained nursing team provides compassionate care to our patients and families.

• Quality is the cornerstone of Duke LifePoint, and it is the central focus of everything the organization and our hospital strive to achieve.
• Duke LifePoint pledges to bring a wealth of expertise and resources to strengthen the already excellent care our hospital delivers.
• And, Duke LifePoint's commitment is to work collaboratively with our hospital to make our community healthier by strengthening local healthcare delivery for the future.
• Assessing the patient’s physical and mental health including the patient’s reaction to illnesses and treatment regimens.
• Assessing, Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating care for antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum patients.
• Recording and reporting the results of the nursing assessment.
• Planning, initiating, delivering, and evaluating appropriate nursing acts.
• Teaching, assigning, delegating to or supervising other personnel in implementing the treatment regimen.
• Collaborating with other health care providers in determining the appropriate health care for a patient but, subject to the provisions of G.S. 90-18.2, not prescribing a medical treatment regimen or making a medical diagnosis, except under supervision of a licensed physician.
• Providing teaching and counseling about the patient’s health.
• Reporting and recording the plan for care, nursing care given, and the patient’s response to that care.
• Providing for the maintenance of safe and effective nursing care, whether rendered directly or indirectly.
• Nursing Practice Act Article 9A, State of North Carolina –July 2005.

• Current RN licensure by the State of North Carolina.
• Current CPR certification.
• Current ACLS certification.
• Current NRP certification.
• Successful completion of AWHONN EFM Class.

Graduate of accredited school of nursing. Prefer one year of medical surgical nursing experience. Prefer advanced training or specialty education in Maternal Child Nursing or National certification.