REGISTERED NURSE
LABOR & DELIVERY
SUMMARY: Reporting to the Director of Nursing/Maternal Child Services, the staff RN is a professional care giver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and provides care to these patients via therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/instrumentation, and other health care team members.

AGE SPECIFIC: Patient care employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to patients of all age groups--must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development through the life span, possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status, and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's needs in relation to age and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

This position possesses the ability to obtain and interpret information considering age specific needs for the following age groups:
  X      0-28 days     Neonate       X      12-18 yrs     Adolescent
___    29 days-18 mo days     Infant / Young Toddler               X      19-40 yrs     Young Adult
___    18 mo-3 yrs     Toddler       X      40-65 yrs     Middle Adult
___    3-6 yrs     Preschooler   ___    >65 yrs     Older Adult
___    6-12 yrs     School Age         

QUALIFICATIONS:
  1. Current CA State licensure as a Registered Nurse.
  2. Current CPR certificate.
  3. Minimum 1 year experience in LDR or successful completion of a course in neonatal assessment and assessment of the laboring patient within 6 months.
  4. NRP preferred, required within six months of employment.
  5. ACLS preferred, required within six months of employment.
  6. Basic fetal monitoring required within 90 days of employment.
  7. Advanced fetal monitoring required within one year of employment.
  8. Experience and/or training in leadership preferred, if acting as a charge nurse.
  9. BSN, or equivalent experience, required if classified as an RNII.

NOTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL BLOOD AND BODY FLUID EXPOSURE:
The risk category for this position to potential exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens is indicated below:

  X   CATEGORY I: Tasks that will involve potential exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue.
___ CATEGORY II: Tasks that may involve potential exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue, and employment and employment may require performing unplanned Category I tasks.
___ CATEGORY III: Tasks that involve no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissue and Category I and II tasks are not a condition of employment.

Standard precautions are utilized for the care of all patients. Category I and Category II employees are eligible for Hepatitis B vaccination at no cost to the employee.