Registered Nurse - Post Partum

Job Summary :

The Registered Nurse in the Post Partum unit provides comprehensive nursing care to patients following childbirth. This role is focused on ensuring high standards of care, patient safety, and effective patient education. The RN will work closely with the maternal-newborn team to deliver optimal care to mothers and newborns during the postpartum recovery period.

Key Responsibilities :

• Patient Care : Provide nursing care for postpartum mothers and newborns, ensuring high-quality care standards and patient safety.
• Monitoring : Conduct and interpret electronic fetal monitoring, adult cardiac monitoring, and newborn monitoring (including pulse oximetry and cardiac monitoring).
• Clinical Skills : Perform IV insertions, lab draws, heel sticks, venipuncture, and other clinical tasks as needed.
• Medication Administration : Administer high-risk medications (Magnesium, Oxytocin, Insulin) and manage newborn medication including IV administration.
• Testing & Procedures : Perform Urine Point of Care testing, capillary blood glucose testing, and IStat testing.
• Newborn Care : Utilize newborn equipment such as radiant warmers, bili-blankets / lights, and provide necessary newborn care (including performing heel sticks and venipuncture).
• Patient Education : Provide education to mothers on maternal-newborn care, post-operative bladder training, and gyn teaching as appropriate.
• Collaborative Care : Work closely with the healthcare team to ensure coordinated care and smooth patient transitions through the postpartum period.
• Documentation : Accurately document patient care, interventions, and progress in accordance with hospital policies.

Required Qualifications :

Preferred Qualifications (if any) :

Education : Bachelors Degree

Certification : Basic Life Support , Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation Program