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RN Labor and Delivery FT Nights-April 2024
Lexington
Apr 25, 2025
About RN Labor and Delivery FT Nights

Overview

As our Labor Delivery Nurse at CHI Saint Jospeh Health, you’ll guide the mother through the labor and childbirth process, focusing on the safety of mom and baby, with kindness and compassion.

To thrive in this role, you'll be flexible in triaging patients, performing screening exams, or guiding patients through routine inductions and deliveries. You'll consistently be monitoring the mother’s dilation progress while also keeping close watch on baby’s fetal heart rate. You'll be coaching mom as the baby is delivered and providing updates and support to mom and baby's loved ones. We have wonderful days where we get to be with new parents through the biggest milestone in their lives. We also have hard days comforting parents as they grieve. As part of our care team, you are sensitive and understanding to different circumstances and above all, you remain calm in all situations.

Key Responsibilities:

Triage walk-ins to determine if a patient is in labor, water is broken, false alarm, etc

Support pregnant patients in labor including induction, epidural assistance (if needed), general pain management and fetal monitoring

Assist and circulate in the operating room for cesarean sections, tubal ligation, cerclage and emergency procedures

Educate patients on various interventions or procedures - medications (name and purpose), exams, and labor stages

Assess newborn and provide care

Communicate with the care management team, including anesthesiologist, physician or midwife, lactation nurse, charge nurse, postpartum unit, patient and family

Incentives:

We're offering a $25,000 sign on bonus AND up to $24,000 in outstanding student loan pay off for new hires that meet eligibility requirements.

About Us:

Welcome to Saint Joseph East, a 217-bed, full-service, community hospital located in a convenient setting in Lexington, Kentucky. Saint Joseph East also includes the Women's Hospital at Saint Joseph East which is dedicated to supporting the well-being of women in Central and Eastern Kentucky and serves a 16-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

Whether you are an experienced healthcare professional or working toward that, we invite you to experience Hello Humankindness with us! CHI Saint Joseph Health provides you with the same level of care you provide for others. We care about our team members well-being and offer benefits that complement work/life balance such as:

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k) and 457(b) Retirement Programs with matching

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

Mental Health resources for you and your family

Wellness Program with rewards up to $450

Tuition Reimbursement for future career growth and development

Adoption Assistance

Voluntary Protection: Accident, Critical Illness, Identify Theft and Pet Insurance

Short and Long Term Disability

Free Premium Membership to Care.com with preloaded credits to support adult and child care needs

Employer Discounts

Relocation Assistance*

Employee Referral Bonuses up to $7,500*

Sign-on Bonuses up to $25,000*

Education Assistance (student loan payoff) up to $24,000*

*for eligible hires

Learn more about Saint Joseph East and it's awards and recognitions here: Saint Joseph East

Responsibilities

This position is accountable for the daily patient care operations of the assigned department, working under the direction of the Nurse Manager on assigned shifts. Responsible for daily patient care assignments, maintaining clinical standards of care, maintaining labor productivity and supervision of the patient care environment; supporting the care team. Supports the activities of the Nurse Manager. Maintains positive inter- and intra-departmental relationships. Directs patient throughput activities in the assigned unit. Maintains evidence-based nursing practices to achieve desirable patient outcomes in accordance with the Kentucky Nurse Practice Act.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

Provides direct supervision of personnel practicing on Nursing Units, makes patient care assignments, evaluates assignments, facilitates patient throughout, and directly observes staff performance on their assigned shift.

Proactively matches existing resources seeking ways to provide patient care that supports staff and maintains a therapeutic environment.

Monitors productivity and assures that staffing and resources are aligned with patient care needs.

Communicates personnel related concerns to the Unit Manager.

Uses a logical, systematic approach to problems and problem-solving.

Facilitates Patient Experience best practices on the unit (hourly rounding, etc.)

Maintains Unit Professional standards. Holds staff accountable for behaviors and attitudes.

Maintains confidentiality of information of the department. Assists in audits and data collection as requested.

Contributes to the efficient operation of the department.

Performs direct patient care and accepts an assigned group of patients as needed.

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate’s Degree (ADN) in Nursing from an accredited nursing college or program

Active Registered Nurse (RN) license cleared by the Kentucky Board of Nursing or with eNLC multi-state practice privilege

Basic Life Support (BLS)

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS ) required to obtain within 3 months post hire

Neonatal Resusitation Program (NRP) required to obtain within 3 months post hire

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing (BSN)

Previous LD experience strongly preferred

Pay Range

$30.00 - $43.50 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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