What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mother Baby (Postpartum) LVN/LPN *SIGN ON BONUS position at Wisestaff LLC?
Description
Wisestaff is urgently hiring for qualified Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN/LPN) with two (2) or more years of full-time LVN experience working as an LVN on a Labor & Delivery unit within the last five (5) years. SAMMC is a Level One Trauma Center and the largest inpatient Military Hospital. If you are looking for a rewarding career, we invite you to apply today! This teaching hospital provides invaluable training in support of graduate medical education, specialties, and critically important trauma skills. There is no more rewarding place to work than providing healthcare to our military service men and women.
LVNs work under the supervision of registered nurses and physicians to provide basic bedside care to patients. They also assist in monitoring, observing, and communicating with patients and their families about medication, at-home care, and preventative lifestyle changes.
Mother Baby (Postpartum) LVN/LPN Duties:
- Prepare and recover cesarean section surgical patients with both regional and general anesthesia.
- Provides care appropriate to the age of the population served.
- Planning and managing patient care according to each patient’s needs.
- Interviewing patients and recording their medical history
- Obtaining patient vital signs and escorting patients to their rooms
- Administering injections of medications
- Verifying that patient charts are updated promptly and accurately.
- Observing and recording patients’ conditions and reactions to medications and treatments
- Adheres to and follows all patient experience initiatives.
- Reports to and departs from work on time and as scheduled.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Must be able to deal with stress while maintaining composure.
- Implements measures to prevent exposure to infectious pathogens and communicable conditions.
- Consults other departments, as appropriate, to provide for an interdisciplinary approach to the patient’s needs.
- Monitors temperature of blanket/fluid warmers and rotates fluids therein.
- Inputs charges into the computer and logs patients into record books and census sheets.
- Providing Mother-baby care when staffing and census warrants.
- Advocate for family-centered care.
- Provides bedside hand-off whenever transfer of care occurs.
- Provides appropriate care/care planning to unit guidelines, designation and national mandates.
- Provides clear information to providers regarding status of the patient.
- Educates the patient and her family on all aspects of her care.
- Assesses and intervenes appropriately based on patient's coping abilities.
- Accurately assesses quantitative blood loss after delivery.
- Demonstrates knowledge and skill in the assessment and care of antepartum, postpartum women, pediatric patients and well neonates. #ZR
Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN/LPN) Benefits:
- 11 Paid Federal Holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, President's Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day
- 2 weeks of annual (PTO) paid time off.
- Continuing education credits
- 401k optional
- Scrubs provided.
- Full-Time Permanent Government Contract positions.
- $350 Sign-on bonus in your FIRST check!
The full-time Licensed Vocational Nurse (LVN/LPN) position includes Health and Welfare Cash Allowance for the following benefits:
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
Requirements
- Must have two (2) or more years of full-time LVN experience working as an LVN on a Labor & Delivery unit within the last five (5) years.
- Must be able to pass a background check for government clearance.
- Must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing by the National League of Nursing
- Valid Licensed Vocational Nurse LVN/LPN Nursing license from any US Jurisdiction
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross.
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification by the American Heart Association
- Must have experience managing patients with Magnesium Sulfate, Pitocin and insulin drips and patients with epidurals and amnio-infusions.
- Experience in performing scrub tech role in the OR preferred, not required.
