Clinical Nurse, Labor & Delivery

Clinical Nurse, Labor & Delivery position at Great Bend Hospital, responsible for providing safe, evidence-based care to patients in Labor & Delivery and Inpatient Nursing units. The RN assumes responsibility for nursing processes, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. Responsibilities include collecting and assessing patient data, initiating and revising individualized plans of care, carrying out interventions, evaluating patient response, providing patient education, and documenting patient care.

Requirements

• Collects and assesses initial and on-going data about the health status of the patient.
• Initiates and/or revises an individualized plan of care that includes immediate and long-term outcomes for the patient/family and reflects the plan of the entire health care team.
• Carries out interventions safely and in compliance with policy to facilitate achievement of expected outcomes.
• Evaluates patient response to intervention/therapy based upon expected outcomes.
• Provides patient education by explaining procedures, medications and giving instructions at a level the patient can understand.
• Addresses patient’s questions and concerns.
• Verifies patient informed consent when indicated.
• Documents and communicates all required components of patient care.
• Provides care to acutely and critically ill patients, in a highly technical and ongoing monitoring environment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Retirement plan
• Paid time off
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance