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Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery 20K Signing Bonus

Employer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Location
Nashville, Tennessee
Closing date
Oct 27, 2021

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Discipline
Registered Nurse (RN)
Specialty
Labor and Delivery
Position Type
Nurse
Hours
Full Time
Work Setting
Academia
Registered Nurse Signing Bonus Labor and Delivery

* 2000075

Job Registered Nurse - Critical Care

Primary Location TN-Nashville-Vanderbilt Hospital (VUH)

Organization Labor & Delivery 30 201893

Your Role:

Our Labor and Delivery Registered Nurse typical shift includes caring for high-risk maternal fetal medicine patients to low-risk midwife patients. Vanderbilt Labor and Delivery Registered Nurses provide comfort measures and support to mothers who have suffered intrauterine fetal death (IUFD), assist in vaginal delivery and recovery, participate as members of the obstetrical emergency team, care for high-risk antepartum patients, triage outpatients, and circulate in the operating room for cesarean birth and fetal surgery. The Center for Women's Health at Vanderbilt offers many outstanding programs for obstetrical patients including: midwifery care, interpretive services, on-staff lactation consultants, water labor tubs, fetal surgery, and nitrous oxide for labor analgesia.

SIGNING BONUS - $15,000

Department/Unit Summary

Our unit specializes in caring for women throughout the childbearing cycle. Low and High Risk Obstetrical patients are evaluated and treated in Labor and Delivery during all phases of the childbearing cycle for management of a variety of clinical conditions. We care for healthy mothers with well babies, as well as for mothers with complex diseases and high risk pregnancies such as: pre-eclampsia, diabetes, multiple gestation, and fetal anomalies.

On our unit we have:

* 12 LDR (Labor and Delivery Rooms)
* 4 beds in the Triage Center
* 6 Maternal Special Care beds
* Daisy Awards Winning Nurses recognized by their patients for the last five consecutive quarters

Our focus is on creating a family-centered environment with a firm belief that patient safety should always come first. We involve our patients and their families in our bedside assessments and reports, as we strive to keep our patients involved as the most important member of the healthcare team. From the moment a patient arrives on our unit we demonstrate the mission of Vanderbilt: We Care, We Teach, We Learn, We deliver EXCELLENT CARE.

Position Shift:

This is a FT night shift position: 7pm to 7am

Click here to view how Vanderbilt Health employees celebrated the difference they make every day:

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Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Our Nursing Philosophy

We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's mission of quality in patient care, education and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families and communities reach excellent health and well-being.

Achieve the Remarkable

Learn more about VUMC Nursing:

* Nursing Careers: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/index.html
* Benefits: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/benefits.html
* Our Nursing Philosophy: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/philosophy.html
* Our Nursing Leadership: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/leadership.html
* Shared Governance: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/shared-governance.html
* Education & Professional Development: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/professional-development.html
* Life In Nashville: http://www.vumcnursingcareers.com/nashville.html
* VUMC Nursing: http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/root/vumc.php?site=vanderbilt-nursing

Position Qualifications

Required:

* Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
* 1 year of labor and delivery experience preferred or the equivalent

Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration (LCR):

* Registered Nurse

Physical Requirements and Strengths Needed:

"Heavy Work" category requiring exertion of 50 to 100 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 20 to 50 lbs. of force frequently and/or up to 10 to 20 lbs. of force continually to move objects.

* Occasional :Sitting: Remaining in seated position
* Occasional :Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with help of coworkers or assistive device
* Occasional :Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
* Occasional :Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles
* Occasional :Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
* Occasional :Kneeling: Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees.
* Occasional :Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
* Occasional :Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
* Frequent :Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
* Frequent :Walking: Moving about on foot.
* Frequent :Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
* Frequent :Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.
* Frequent :Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self, patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and small spaces
* Frequent :Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
* Frequent :Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands.
* Frequent :Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
* Frequent :Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.

* Frequent :Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.
* Continuous :Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
* Continuous :Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
* Continuous :Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.
* Continuous :Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.
* Occasional :Chemicals and Gasses: Medications, cleaning chemicals, oxygen, other medical gases used in work area.
* Frequent :Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other contagious illnesses.

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