RN Labor Delivery Job at Labor Erfurt in Glendale
Labor Erfurt, Glendale, CA, United States, 91222
Overview
Founded in 1926, Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center is a 334-bed acute care nonprofit community hospital located in Glendale, California. The hospital offers a full complement of services including its award-winning heart center, the colorectal surgery institute, a gastrointestinal program, and is a Los Angeles County approved primary stroke center. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nation’s five largest health care systems. Visit here for more information.
Responsibilities
As a Labor & Delivery Nurse at Glendale Memorial Medical Center, now part of CommonSpirit Health formed between Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health, you’ll guide patients through the labor and childbirth process focusing on the safety of the mother and baby with kindness and compassion.
You will have varying roles and responsibilities, including:
- Triage walk-ins to determine if a patient is in labor, water is broken, false alarm, etc.
- Support pregnant patients in labor including induction, epidural assistance (if needed), general pain management, and fetal monitoring.
- Assist and circulate in the operating room for cesarean sections, tubal ligation, cerclage, and emergency procedures.
- Educate patients on various interventions or procedures - medications (name and purpose), exams, and labor stages.
- Assess newborns and provide care.
- Communicate with the care management team including anesthesiologist, physician or midwife, lactation nurse, charge nurse, postpartum unit, patient, and family.
To thrive in this role, you’ll need to appreciate that routine is never routine. We have some wonderful days in this department and get to be with people through huge milestones in their lives. We also have some hard days and are with people as they grieve. You must be sensitive and understanding to different circumstances. Above all else, you must remain calm in an emergency. A patient’s status can change quickly and it’s never good for the patient or family to see the nurse in a panic. You’re calm. You’re in control. You’re handling the situation.
While you’re busy impacting the healthcare industry, we’ll take care of you with benefits that include health/dental/vision, FSA matching, retirement plans, paid vacation, adoption assistance, and more.
Qualifications
- 6 Months acute care experience in labor and delivery.
- Minimum education as required for licensure.
- BSN Preferred. Moderate Sedation for all monitored areas preferred.
- Basic Fetal Monitoring, NRP, ACLS, BLS certifications required.
- Current California license as a Registered Nurse.
- Must crosstrain to postpartum transition nurse.
- Must have neonatal experience.
- Position is represented by CNA.