Labor and Delivery RN

Where You’ll Work

Founded in 1887, Dignity Health at California Hospital Medical Center is a 318-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles. The hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II trauma center, the Los Angeles Center for Womens Health, obstetrics and pediatric services, and comprehensive cardiac and surgical services. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health, one of the nations five largest health care systems. Visit here https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/californiahospital for more information.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Assessment: Performs total body and system assessment each shift/visit according to unit standards.
• Care of Patient: Including planning, implementing, evaluating and educating.
• Clinical/Technical Skills: Utilizes technology, procedures, protocols, standards and interventions specific to assigned unit.
• Documentation: Performs legible, timely, concise and accurate documentation according to policies and procedures. Proficient and competent with the computerized documentation system.
• Leadership: Accepts responsibility and accountability for own decisions and behaviors. Recognizes, accepts and cooperates with direction from facility leadership.
• Precepting/Mentoring: Participates in orientation of new staff, ancillary personnel and mentors students in a constructive and positive manner. Serves as resource to staff from other nursing departments

Our new birth center offers next-generation comfort and technologically equipped care to support growing families with optimized experiences and outcomes.​ We have modernize​d our maternity services, including labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, and our 24-bed Level III NICU​ to create spacious, nurturing environments for the 2,400 deliveries and 500 NICU admissions we handle each year​.

• 28 private postpartum rooms—to provide an enhanced level of patient comfort
• 24 private NICU rooms—offering families more space to bond with their newest arrival
• 3 surgery suites—with state-of-the-art equipment and technology
• Pregnancy care center—with private triage, antepartum, and birthing rooms
• Children’s play area—to soothe anxious families in the waiting room
• Private spaces—to meet and consult with families

 If you are committed to social justice health equity and prepared to deliver care in new innovative ways you belong with us.

 

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Job Requirements

Required

• Active Registered Nurse license in the State of California
• 1 year of Labor & Delivery experience
• Basic Life Support - CPR (BLS) from the American Heart Association
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) from the American Heart Association
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Fire Safety, within 90 Days of hire

Preferred

• Bachelors of Science in Nursing
• 1 to 3 years of acute care experience