Registered Nurse - Maternal Child Services

About This Role

Deliver evidence-based nursing care to maternal and child patients, focusing on labor and delivery, mother/baby couplet care, high-risk antepartum, and newborn nursery care. Collaborate with healthcare teams and educate patients and families.

Responsibilities

• Deliver nursing practices according to up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care
• Provide safe and excellent individualized patient care
• Communicate ongoing status, rendered care, and treatment plans with patients, nursing colleagues, and other healthcare team members
• Administer medication utilizing bar-scanning and documentation technologies
• Document patient assessments, plan-of-care, interventions, and evaluation using Point-of-Care electronic systems
• Educate patients and families on optimizing health, wellness, and disease management
• Perform multi-disciplinary discharging of patients to ensure safe transitioning and continuum of care
• Care for Labor and Delivery patients
• Perform Mother/Baby couplet care
• Provide High Risk Antepartum care
• Circulate in the Operating Room
• Provide Newborn Nursery Care

Requirements

• Current and valid New Jersey Registered Nurse license
• BLS/CPR certification by American Heart Association within 60 days of hire
• Minimum of 6 months of nursing experience or active participant in the Hackensack Meridian Health Nurse Residency program

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 months of nursing experience or active participant in the Hackensack Meridian Health Nurse Residency program.

Nice to Have

• Maternal child services experience in a hospital setting including labor and delivery, postpartum, antepartum, and well-baby nursery
• ACLS within 6 months of hire
• NRP within 6 months of hire
• Inpatient Obstetrics and/or External Fetal Monitoring Certification
• BSN in progress and/or willing to acquire within three (3) years of hire

Benefits

Certifications