The Labor and Delivery Nurse Resource RN demonstrates advanced clinical expertise in low-risk, high-risk, and medically complex obstetric care, with the ability to educate, coach, and mentor nurses in the delivery of safe, evidence-based, equitable, trauma-informed, and family-centered maternity care. Essential competencies include expert fetal assessment and fetal monitoring interpretation; labor support and birth management; obstetric emergency response, including hemorrhage, hypertensive crisis, maternal deterioration, maternal code, and neonatal resuscitation; obstetric medication safety; critical care obstetrics; maternal assessment and surveillance; and care of patients experiencing pregnancy loss, fetal demise, termination for medical indications, perinatal bereavement, and other complex clinical situations. This Resource position will also support an antenatal population. Critical Care OB experience preferred. RN will serve as the primary clinical resource for replacement staff, providing clinical guidance, support and expertise related to care of OB (antenatal and laboring) patients.The resource RN will respond to all unit emergencies and hospital-wide OB emergencies.The resource RN will attend all surgical cases and operative vaginal deliveries until the situation is stable.The resource RN will act as a resource to regular RNs with complex patients. The resource RN will work in conjunction with the charge nurse to determine placement of patients from triage to the labor floor - including the timing of movement, provides input of nurse assignment for charge nurse to maintain patient flow and acuity-based patient assignments. Resource RN required to have experience with L&D triage of assessment of labor onset, antepartum and postpartum patients up to 12 weeks post-delivery. Resource RN must have experience responding to OB Emergencies. RN must be able to care for patients undergoing cerclage insertion/removal, tubal ligations, and pregnancy loss. RN must have strong IV and venipuncture skills. RN must be able to assess, evaluate, and interpret FM tracings with appropriate interventions based on the findings. RN will also be responsible for assessing patients for PPH Risk and respond appropriately with Stage-Based interventions related to quantify blood loss. RN will need to be experience initiating and caring for patients in cervical ripening thorough all phases of delivery and recovery. Prefer experience with serving as a rapid assessment nurse and using the AWHONN MFTI criteria. Strongly prefer tertiary level facility experience in L&D.
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