Head Nurse - Obstetrics jobs in Hawaii

Location: Waimea, HI

Duration: 13 weeks

Shift Information: Varied - Candidate Must Be Flexible

Description

Must Have L&D, Postpartum and Nursery Experience

Staff RN On 5 Bed OB Unit Which Includes

Antepartum, Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, Nursery and Outpatient Testing.

Equipment utilized in the unit/dept. (Is there computerized charting, medication systems, etc.)

Avalon fetal monitoring machine, PYXIS machine, Ohmeda Infant Warmer System, Neopuff,Oxygen Blender, Bilibed (for phototherapy), Neoblue bed and overhead (for phototherapy), OUR 365 (newborn photos), SCD machine, Echoscreen (newborn hearing), Adult and Neonatal crash cart machine, and vital signs machine.

We continue to be paper charting.

Required Skills And Minimum Years Of Experience

Able to take care of Antepartum, Intrapartum, Postpartum, High Risk (PIH, placenta abruption, prolapse cord, placenta previa, VBAC, GDM, PTL, PROM, etc.), and Laboring Patients.

Taking care of Observation and NST Patients.

Able to take care of Well Babies, Phototherapy, and Special Care Nursery Babies.

Willing to float to other departments if decrease in census and if needed.

We require someone who can start adult and neonatal IV's, adult and neonatal Accu checks, PKU on newborns, Provide resuscitation on a newborn if needed, APGAR scoring, bulb suctioning, delee of a newborn, and assist with circumcisions.

With a laboring patient: assist anesthesia in administration of intrathecal or epidural, monitoring PCA pump, attending C-Sections and taking care of the newborn, recovering patients after a C-Section or BTL, hanging IV fluids, or IVPB medications.

Administering and titrating Pitocin, Magnesium Sulfate, and Insulin drip. Monitoring and interpreting fetal heart rate to the physician.

Monitoring a laboring patient on Cytotec, intrauterine pressure catheter (IUPC), internal scalp electrode (Client) having a amnioinfusion, and assisting a physician with doing a external cephalic version (ECV).

2 years labor and delivery, and couplet care experience

Specific licensures and certifications/registrations required. ( BLS, ACLS, NRP, STABLE, FM (Fetal Monitoring certification)

Specialty: Nursing

Sub Specialty(s): Labor and Delivery Nurse, Nursery, Obstetrics RN, Post Partum, Antepartum

EMR Used: Cerner

Minimum Years of Experience: 2

General Certifications

ACLS

BLS/BCLS

NRP

Nursing Certifications

STABLE

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