Registered Nurse / Labor And Delivery Department

Job Summary:
Labor and Delivery (L&D) registered nurse position in an acute care setting. This role involves providing care for laboring, postpartum, and well newborn patients, including handling high-risk scenarios such as hypertensive crises and hemorrhage. The nurse will work autonomously, utilizing advanced skills like newborn stabilization and titrating drips, in a unit with a dedicated C-section suite and adherence to AWHONN guidelines for staffing ratios.

Job Details:

• Schedule: 12-hour night shifts from 7:00 PM to 7:00 AM, with weekends and holidays scheduled equitably, and on-call after hours with a 30-minute response time.
• Required Qualifications: Valid license to submit, BLS (Basic Life Support), ACLS (Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support), NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation Program), and STABLE certification. Two years of labor and delivery experience, with recent strong labor or postpartum experience, and familiarity with high-risk obstetric cases including hypertensive crisis and hemorrhage protocols. Experience with newborn stabilization and managing laboring patients independently is essential. Ability to titrate mag, pitocin, and insulin drips is required.
• Preferred Qualifications: Experience performing newborn stabilization, comfort working with OB in-hospital and managing labor cases autonomously, and familiarity with electronic fetal monitoring systems.
• Additional Information: The unit has six well-equipped beds with 24/7 in-house obstetrician and neonatologist coverage shared with hospitalists, on-call anesthesiology, and no current nurse aides or surgical techs on the unit. Self-scheduling includes a single facility orientation day plus two 12-hour shifts on the unit. Floating assistance may be required occasionally, with a focus on safety and task completion. Candidate addresses will be verified to ensure compliance with the 50-mile radius rule.

Benefits
The benefits of taking a travel assignment with Cross Country include:

• Private housing or generous housing allowance
• Comprehensive health insurance with prescription coverage
• Dependent health insurance with prescription coverage
• Competitive salaries
• Referral bonuses
• Travel reimbursement
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Direct deposit/free checking
• Unlimited free CE credits

Other

As one of the leading suppliers of travel healthcare professionals and a Best of Staffing® Talent Award winner, Cross Country Nurses offers thousands of opportunities for healthcare professionals across the country. We have relationships with more than 2,500 healthcare facilities nationwide and offer excellent compensation and one of the most comprehensive benefits packages in the industry. Have the freedom to decide where you want to work and take your career where you want it to go when you travel with us.