Job Description
OhioHealth is seeking a compassionate Staff Nurse, Labor & Delivery to provide high-quality, family-centered care for mothers and newborns. In this casual role, you will assess and monitor laboring patients, manage fetal monitoring, administer medications and IVs, assist with deliveries and emergencies, and support postpartum and newborn care. You'll collaborate with an interdisciplinary team in a fast-paced, technologically advanced environment that values inclusion, continuous learning, and professional growth while making a meaningful impact on community health.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct nursing care to laboring, birthing, and postpartum patients and newborns
- Continuously assess maternal and fetal status, including vital signs and fetal monitoring
- Administer medications, IV therapies, and epidural support per provider orders and protocols
- Assist physicians and midwives with deliveries, procedures, and emergency interventions
- Educate and support patients and families on labor, birth, postpartum, and newborn care
- Document assessments, interventions, and outcomes accurately in the electronic medical record
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to develop and implement care plans
- Follow infection control, safety, and quality standards in all clinical activities
- Participate in unit-based quality improvement, drills, and continuing education
- Advocate for patient preferences, cultural needs, and informed decision-making
Required Skills
- Labor and delivery nursing
- Fetal heart rate monitoring and interpretation
- Postpartum and newborn assessment
- Medication administration and IV therapy
- Electronic fetal monitoring equipment use
- Emergency response in obstetrics (e.g., PPH, preeclampsia)
- Electronic medical record documentation
- Patient and family education on childbirth and newborn care
- Infection control and patient safety protocols
- Interdisciplinary team collaboration
