Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery

• General Information
• Beds: 8
• Will you accept a traveler with 1-year experience? No, unless it is specific to L&D
• Will you accept a first-time traveler? Yes, with L&D experience
• Travelers must live >100 miles away from facility
• Permanent staff must wait 1 full year to return as a traveler
• Patient Types:
• L&D, postpartum, Antepartum, Newborns, Infants <28 days old
• Level 2A Nursery - will care for sick babies
• Gyn-Surgicals/Mastectomy post-op - preferred experience - if candidate is not comfortable with these, other staff may be able to take
• Patient Ratios:
• Laboring: 1:2
• Couplets: 1:3-4
• Required

• BLS, ACLS, NRP • Required

• Completion of a nursing education program that is approved by a board of nursing; Registered Nurse (RN) - South Dakota Board of Nursing
• Skills required:
• EFM interpretation and intervention, adult and neonatal assessment skills
• Support on the Unit:
• CNA : none specific to L&D, o/c for facility 24/7
• Charge nurse: 1 in hospital covers all units
• Phlebotomy? Lab available, 24/7
• IV/VAT Team? No
• Centralized Fetal Monitoring
• Resource Nurse: Primary nurse, manager, or charge nurse
• RT: Available and o/c facility wide
• Hospitalist: In house (Med/Surg)
• Nursery located behind Nurses station
• Charting System: Epic
• Floating Required:
• Med/surg - as helping hands/in the role of a CNA
• Could be floated within scope of practice and below
• Orientation: (facility and unit)
• Per experience-traveler nurse, typically 1 week
• Scheduling:
• Weekend rotation: every other weekend
• Will they be on call? If so, what is that schedule? LOC per census and LOC rotation
• Holiday Expectations: 3 holidays scheduled, 1 on-call, rotating schedule
• Approval of time off? 2 gold tickets/year and request off before next schedule is posted
• Other notes:
• Scrub Color: Hospital provided scrubs
• Free Parking? Yes