Registered Nurse Birth Center

Job Description: The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.

What You Can

Expect from Birth Center of Denver Birth Center of Denver is a midwife-led birth center providing evidence-based, compassionate and supportive care to women and families in the Denver and surrounding areas.

We offer prenatal care, customized education classes, labor support, water birth, postpartum and newborn care up to 14 days.

Centering

Pregnancy™ is our standard model of prenatal care. This group-based approach to prenatal care combines belly checks with time for discussion and shared learning about pregnancy, birth and babies and is focused on building a community with other pregnant parents!

We offer a home-like space outside of a hospital that focuses on a highly supportive and unmedicated childbirth experience.

We offer a luxurious environment with little intervention to support a more natural approach to birth. We have beautifully decorated and spacious suites with spa-like amenities including an oversized tub for water births, a queen-sized bed, and a separate area for loved ones to gather within the same suite.

Birth

Center of Denver is owned by Saint Joseph Hospital and operates independently as a 5-bed licensed freestanding birth center. Should any “what ifs” arise, we have the full benefit of having Saint Joe’s in our backyard, allowing for seamless transitions to the hospital if needed.

The Birth

Center RN role is a salaried exempt position and provides opportunities for you to work to the top of your scope and work with an incredible clinical team. You will be scheduled for both day, night and weekend shifts and will have the opportunity to take call from home if there is not anyone in labor. You must be at the birth center within a 30-minute call response time.

Your hours will be set up alongside our midwife schedules, as there is a CNM/RN call schedule model. You will support women who have low risk pregnancies by providing information, guidance and hands-on clinical care during prenatal care, labor, birth, postpartum and newborn care. The birth center nurse also supports family education, breastfeeding support and are key resources of information and support throughout the prenatal and childbirth journeys.

Essential Functions Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status (including cognitive, communicative, and developmental skills as appropriate). Seeks and evaluates information acquired from other members of interdisciplinary team: patient, family, physician, non-nursing disciplines, support staff, others.

Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care. Actively seeks patient, family, team, and physician involvement to develop plan of care including needed education. Collaboratively plans and prepares patients for further support needs once the current episode of care outcomes are met (i.e., teaching, referrals, and follow-up).

Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate. Provides or delegates care consistent with plan of care, guidelines of care and professional licensure provisions. Demonstrates the ability to set priorities and to coordinate and organize patient care delivery through effectively managing time, supplies, and resources.

Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction. Revises plan of care as indicated and reassesses changes as appropriate.

Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participate in development of others. Integrates legal and ethical standards into practice, complies with regulatory standards, practices within scope of licensure, provides accurate & timely documentation, and understands legal implications of care delivery.

Skills Patient Care Delivery Nursing Fundamentals Interdisciplinary Teams Documentations Professional Etiquette Accountability Patient Care Coordination Communication Patient Evaluation Critical Thinking Minimum Qualifications Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment. RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date.

Basic Life Support

Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

Current

Labor a

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