Fairview Health Services

Responsibilities/Job Description

Fairview looking for skilled and passionate Registered Nurses to join our Labor & Delivery team in Burnsville, MN. Conveniently located just 20 minutes south of Minneapolis at the crossroads of I-35E and I-35W, our hospital has been a trusted provider of expert maternity care and community health services since 1984. We offer free parking for patients, visitors, and employees.

Are you curious about what it’s like to work in a Labor & Delivery or Postpartum unit? This could be the perfect opportunity for you! Fairview Ridges Birthplace features a 30-bed Postpartum unit, a 9-bed Labor & Delivery unit, and a 3-bed Maternal Assessment Center, supporting approximately 2,000 deliveries each year. Join our dedicated team and be part of a collaborative, patient- and family-centered environment where we honor each patient’s preferences for both medical and non-medical support throughout their labor, delivery, and postpartum journey.

Schedule: This position is 48 hours per pay period, nights, 12 hour shifts with every third weekend (Friday, Saturday, Sunday).

The Registered Nurse is responsible for the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care for all assigned patient population(s). The RN is responsible for performing these responsibilities in accordance with all policy, procedures, professional practice guidelines and the MN Nurse Practice Act. The RN coordinates care with members of the health care team and delegates responsibilities to others as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient needs and identifies expected nursing outcomes.
• Involves the patient, family, and other health team members in gathering data.
• Uses an ongoing, systematic process to gather relevant information (biological, psychological, spiritual, and social aspects) from patient and family.
• Analyzes data and information to identify potential risks, prioritize needs and determine priority problems.
• Identifies outcomes that are age appropriate, culturally appropriate, realistic, and attainable.
• Validates these with patient, family, and other health team members.
• Documents data and identified outcomes.
• Develops an individualized nursing plan of care.
• Collaborates with patient, family, and other health team members to develop a nursing plan as part of an integrated, comprehensive plan of care
• Develops an individualized plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, condition, and other relevant needs.
• Determines nursing interventions based on identified needs.
• Identifies interdisciplinary resources needed to assist in implementing the nursing plan of care.
• Prioritizes interventions based on patient acuity, available resources, and patient/family preferences and needs.
• Documents and updates the plan of care to assure continuity throughout the continuum of care.
• Implements nursing interventions based on the plan of care.
• Provides care according to the plan, and in accordance with all relevant policies, procedures, and nursing practice guidelines.
• Coordinates nursing care with the care of all other health team members.
• Initiates age and culturally appropriate measures to support and meet patient needs while achieving expected outcomes.
• Initiates patient/family teaching as appropriate to age, readiness to learn and available resources.
• Collaborates, consults, or makes referrals if unable to perform safely and independently.
• Delegates direct and indirect patient care activities to appropriate personnel based on needs, condition, potential for risk/harm, complexity of the skill and predictability of the outcome.
• Assures all actions are based on scientific, ethical, or ecological principles; proven effectiveness; experience; practice standards; patient/family requests and values; or, legal parameters.
• Uses the full range of therapeutic modalities to support and augment the healing process, moving from least intensive and invasive to more, depending on need and context.
• Documents interventions according to practice guidelines.
• Anticipates, recognizes, and responds to emergent situations.

Required Qualifications

• 1 year L&D Experience OR 2 years Postpartum Experience OR 2 years Acute Care Experience
• MN Registered Nurse (RN) License
• Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc or Red Cross)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing or BAN
• 1-3 years of experience

Qualifications

$42.96- $72.75 Hourly

Overview

Fairview Health Services is searching for hardworking RNs looking for an exciting career in our L&D Post-Partum units located at our Burnsville, Minnesota campus! Our hospital is just 20 minutes south of Minneapolis, MN near the 35E and 35 W conjunctions. The hospital has been providing state-of-the art care and community services to the residents of the elegant Minnesota Valley since 1984.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in a L&D/Post-Partum unit? If so, then this might just be the position for you! Fairview Ridges Birthplace is a 30 bed postpartum and 9 bed labor and delivery unit with a 3 bed maternal assessment center and over 2200 deliveries per year. Join our team to work in a collaborative, patient and family centered environment where we focus to meet our patients and families desires for medical and non-medical interventions that support their labor, delivery and postpartum experience.

This position is XX hours per pay period, rotating day/night, 12 hour shifts (7am-7:30pm, 7pm-7:30am), every third weekend.

We offer generous benefits including medical, dental, time off and more. Check out additional benefits information here:Benefits (fairview.org) www.fairview.org/benefits/noncontractrn