Nurse (Inpatient Clinical/OB-GYN)

Summary

About the Position: The primary purpose of this position is to provide comprehensive obstetric and gynecologic nursing care to patients, both adolescents and adults, across a continuum. The incumbent provides services to routine and high-risk obstetric patients during the antepartum, intra-partum, and postpartum period maximizing maternal and fetal health for patients seen within the Military Treatment Facility (MTF). This is a Direct Hire Solicitation

Duties

• Provides care for women requiring low to high-risk ante-partum, intra-partum, postpartum, and gynecological care as well as competence in newborn and couplet care.
• Administers oxygen, IV fluids, amnioinfusion, blood products, and prescribed medications.
• Provides perioperative care to include serving as the circulating RN for cesarean sections and additional obstetric surgical procedures as needed (i.e., dilatation and curettage, cervical cerclage, cesarean-hysterectomy).
• Serves as subject matter expert and consultant for nursing staff and healthcare teammates in other areas of the hospital.
• Monitors and oversees staff performance to assure work is accomplished timely.
• Ensures staff makes legible, accurate, and complete nursing entries in the electronic health record.
• Ensures appropriate patient education occurs during the shift and that the correct responses to patient emergencies are made. Verifies and annotates all physicians'/providers' orders written during the shift.
• Prepares written and gives oral instructions to personnel of all shifts regarding status and condition of patients, special procedures, and observations required.
• Provides sufficient information to patients, parents, on pre- and post- admission and/or operative education, disease process and complications, and medication administration.
• Provides for the safekeeping and accurate accounting of controlled drugs and narcotics.

Education

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.