Travel Nurse RN - Labor/Delivery in Bronx, NY

**Job Title:** Registered Nurse L&D Nights
**Job Specialty:** NURS: ER
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** 3x11.5-hour shifts, 7 PM - 7 AM, including every other weekend and holidays
**Guaranteed Hours:** Not specified
**Experience:** Minimum of 3 years required
**License:** NY RN License
**Certifications:** BLS, ACLS, NRP
**Must-Have:**
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to meet physical demands (standing, walking, sitting, climbing stairs, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling) and lift up to 50 lbs
- Meet pre-employment credentialing clearances (Background Check and Drug Screen)
**Job Description:**
- Assess patients' clinical conditions, recognizing, identifying, and interpreting serious situations, prioritizing, and immediately deciding upon and taking proper action.
- Formulate nursing diagnoses to appropriately provide care for patients across the lifespan, including medical, surgical, psychiatric, and obstetrical patients.
- Develop a plan of care for individual patients by interviewing patients and family members, reviewing the patient's health record, and determining the necessary health and physical care, including discharge planning.
- Initiate appropriate measures in emergency situations when the physician is not immediately available, including resuscitative measures in case of cardiac or respiratory arrest.
- Operate and monitor general and specialized emergency care equipment such as infusion pumps, pulse oximeters, ventilators, and cardiac monitors.
- Administer therapeutic measures as prescribed by the physician, such as medications and IV therapy, that alter hemodynamic status, respiratory therapy, mechanical ventilation, etc.
- Plan, provide, and appropriately document the teaching of patients and families regarding preventative, curative, and rehabilitative measures.
- Record observations, nursing interventions, therapeutic measures administered, and the status of coordinated activities between nursing and other professional disciplines.
- Evaluate progress toward outcomes, including patient status, interventions, and patient response to nursing and therapeutic interventions, and update the plan of care.
- Document specific health care requirements for patients and prepare written assignments for individual team members, matching staff skills to patient care requirements.
- Assume oversight for patient care administered by licensed practical nurses and unlicensed personnel in assigned or delegated tasks.
- Provide technical guidance, delegation, and direction to other registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and unlicensed personnel.
- Share responsibilities for sustaining adequate supplies and equipment, maintaining general unit upkeep, and preserving a safe environment.
- Maintain knowledge and competency reflecting current nursing practice, promoting professional growth for self and other staff members.
- Demonstrate positive role model and leadership qualities, adhering to and promoting professional, ethical, and legal standards of nursing.
- Maintain and promote positive personal work habits, interpersonal skills, and public relationships with employees, administration, medical staff, patients, and families.