RN (Registered Nurse) - First Connect

Unit Notes
**11/6 Start Date ONLY**
**Experience needed in the Mother baby/Postpartum units **
**Required to work 2 of the 3 major holidays (which includes the day before, holiday, and day after)**

- Unit: Labor and Deliver
- # L&D Beds: 10 beds - 2 OR's in L&D
- # triage beds: 2 beds
- # Postpartum beds: 18 beds
- Requirements: 2 years of prior experience in L&D, prefers travel experience
- # births per day, per year: 130 births per month
- Certs: BLS, NRP, ACLS, A1 fetal heart monitoring
- Ratios: 1:1 close to delivery, 1:2 otherwise, 1:4 couplets on postpart
- FHM System: Obix fetal monitoring
- EMR: Cerner
- Charge Nurse: Yes- shared between L&D and PP
- Nurse Aides/OB tech: Scrub techs on L& D, otherwise none
- Weekend Requirement: 4 shifts in a 4 week period
- Call Requirement: None on either
- Holidays: 1 Major, 1 Minor. Major RN holidays: Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Yrs. Major Tech holidays: Christmas and New Years
- Scrub Color: Provided
- Tele: None-will tx out
- Vents: None
- OB/Neonataologist in house: None-currently working on it
- IV Team: None
- RT 24/7: Yes
- Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
- Shifts: 12 hr shifts- 7a, 11a, and 7p
- C-section experience required: Yes- scrub, recovery, and circulate experience required for L&D
- Floating: PP-no unless NICU background for feeder/grower, L&D to postpartum. Typically don't work interchangably
- Floor specific orientation: 3 Shifts
- Common diagnosis / Types of patients: Deliver down to 23 wks, some high risk- Antepartum, HTN , plan to tx out if known cardiac abnormality. Have perinatology support
- Additional Notes: L& D is biggest need.