WA - RN-Labor & Delivery Nurse(LDRP), Nights(12-Hour Shifts), **Acute Care Experience Preferred** - Moses Lake

Mobile Health Team Inc, is a Nurse owned staffing agency that focuses on meeting the needs of our healthcare professionals by offering a variety of placement options, flexible scheduling and competitive pay.

We are currently looking for experienced, hardworking and compassionate Healthcare Professionals to join us and help bridge the staffing gap in all aspects of the healthcare system. We offer PRN, Contract and permanent positions.

Mobile Health Team Inc., a staffing agency, has an opening for an RN (LDRP). We are looking for someone with a passion for people.

Location: Moses Lake, WA, 98837

Assignment Start Date: 11/11/2024

13 weeks | Nights | 12-Hour Shifts | 36 hours per week guaranteed

The Estimated Weekly Total is based on working the listed hours per week and includes available stipend amounts. Please contact a recruiter for full details.

This position is responsible for functioning as both a caregiver and a care manager. In the caregiver role, the RN assumes responsibility for a group of patients for a designated time frame implementing the Nursing Process. In the role of care manager, the RN directs and oversees the work of other caregivers, (nurses and non-nurses) via delegation, coordination, supervision, and validation/evaluation of patient care outcomes.

NATURE AND SCOPE

The individual in this position reports to the Charge Nurse, Department Director, and other designated supervisory staff on duty. This position works closely with patients, physicians, and other clinicians to ensure optimal patient care and outcomes.

The individual in this position will be required to fully understand the purpose and operation of Patient Care Services along with having the ability to make decisions based on sound judgment when a situation dictates.

Specific Accountabilities

• Performs assessment/data collection, focusing on physiologic, psychosocial, and cognitive status.
• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner by utilization of/adherence to pre-determined procedures, policies, and care plans.
• Identifies patient/significant other learning needs, and readiness for learning, and implements patient teaching as defined by policy and care plans.
• Documents in patient’s chart, via electronic medical records and/or paper processes, per policy and by all regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to patient/significant other and family rights, as identified by Samaritan Healthcare regardless of race, age, religion, color, creed, sex, national origin, or any other classification protected by law; and regardless of ability to pay.
• Demonstrates appropriate delegation of patient care activities. Functions effectively to supervise assigned coworkers.
• Demonstrates effective organization and priority setting utilizing sound critical thinking.
• Demonstrates appropriate use of lines of authority.
• May be required to function as a Charge Nurse to include: Delegation of patient assignment/re-assignment; assisting/informing with admits, discharges, and transfers; coordinating staff coverage for breaks; helping staff problem-solve; serving as a lead for unit.
• Maintains professional growth and development through seminars, workshops, and professional affiliations to keep abreast of the latest trends in the field of expertise.
• Functions with awareness of/adherence to safety requirements. This includes, but is not limited to: security and safety, understanding of MSDS, equipment, infection control, fire, disaster, safe lifting, and body mechanics.
• Ensures self-compliance with organization policies and procedures as well as labor agreements.
• Ensures the interface with team members and other support groups is conducted courteously and efficiently conducive to the organization’s values.
• Professionally conducts self and ensures personal appearance meets the standards necessary to perform the job function while representing the organization.
• Ensures that additional accountabilities, as may be required, by management be handled in a manner necessary to meet organizational standards.
  
  

Experience/Education/Qualification

Experience:

• Experience as an acute care registered nurse preferred.
• A minimum of one year of RN experience is preferred for specialty nursing departments.
  
  

Education

• Must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
  
  

Licenses, Certifications, And/or Registration

• Must have current WA license.
• AAP NRP Advanced (American Academy of Pediatrics, Neonatal Resuscitation Program) is required for all RNs before the end of orientation and is renewed every 2 years.
• STABLE course completion within 6 months of completing orientation, and renewed every 2 years.
• OB ALS online course taken within 6 months of completing L&D training and renewed every 2 years.
• AWHONN’s Intermediate Fetal Monitoring course for all L&D RNs is required and must be obtained within 3 months of completing L&D training and renewed every 2 years. An advanced Fetal Monitoring course is also acceptable.
• RN-C in specialty preferred.
  
  

EMR System: Meditech experience preferred

Shift: Nights, 1845-0715 with 36 hours a week and the ability to pick up extra shifts. Must be a team player and willing to float to other depts. RTO must be approved and added to the end of the contract.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Critical thinking skills: Seeks resources for direction. Performs independent problem-solving. Decision-making is logical and deliberate.
• Demonstrate accountability. Practices within legal and ethical guidelines.
• Crisis management
• Demonstrates competency in the ability to care for customers/patients across the age continuum.
• Demonstrates competency on equipment listed on the department-specific checklist.
• Ability to perform the primary functions of a Registered Nurse in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of all assigned patients
• Frequent standing, walking, lifting, reaching, kneeling, bending, stooping, pushing and pulling.
• Manual dexterity, light physical effort, ability to lift/carry up to 30 lbs. (supplies and equipment). Manual dexterity of hands and feet to ambulate 8 to 12 hours per shift and adroitly manage multiple pieces of equipment/tubes/invasive lines.
• Physical strength to perform CPR (bed/floor), lift and push/pull 60 to 300 pounds (with assistance) as often as 20 times per 8 to 12 hours, and perform constant walking, twisting, turning, and stretching maneuvers in patient care and use of equipment.
• Keen mental faculties to perform assessment and decision-making skills in the management of acutely ill patients.
• Good reading eyesight. Is able to see clearly 20 feet or more, to judge distance and space relationships, and to see peripherally. Visual acuity to observe patient assessment data and use manual/automated documentation tools.
• Emotional stability: Conducive to dealing with a high-stress level for 8 to 12 hours at a time associated with caring for acute patients/families, fast-paced physical activity, rapidly changing patient conditions, emotional demands of patients and their families, and demands of maintaining effective working relationships with peers, managers, physicians, and other health care workers.
• Ability to communicate using verbal and/or written skills for accurate exchange of information with physicians, nurses, health care professionals, patients and/or family, and the public.
  
  

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Mobile Health Team, Inc is a workforce solutions company. We match experienced healthcare professionals with temporary or permanent positions globally.

Our mission is clear, to bridge the staffing gap in the healthcare industry by creating and maintaining long-term working relationships with clients and healthcare professionals. We specialize in temporary and permanent placements in order to meet our client's needs.