Registered Nurse (RN), Labor and Delivery, Nights

Registered Nurse - L&D
Full-time -Night Shift
Largo, Maryland

The Registered RN is a professional caregiver who, as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and who supervises and provides care to these patients utilizing the nursing process including the therapeutic use of self.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Follows established policies and procedures.
• Communicates openly with internal customers and supervisors.
• Provides excellent customer service interfacing well with all levels of staff, management, and physicians.
• Applies University of Maryland core values.
• Assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated timeframe.
• Evaluates patients, implements, and documents nursing care.
• Assists physicians during examinations and procedures.
• Performs various patient tests and administers medications utilizing the nursing process.
• Promotes patients' independence by establishing patient care goals and teaching patients and families to understand conditions, medications, and self-care skills.