Postpartum Registered Nurse - Days/Nights - T9 Birth Center

UPMC Altoona is seeking a full-time Postpartum Registered Nurse to join our T9 Birth Center team! This position will work rotating day and night shifts, rotating weekends and holidays, and an on-call requirement.

The Postpartum Registered Nurse provides direct and indirect care to postpartum couplets (mothers and infants) utilizing the nursing process following delivery until they are discharged home. The postpartum mothers are primarily well, but needed care may include treating mothers with high-risk conditions, such as pre-eclampsia or chorioamnionitis. The patient population includes both vaginal and C-section patient and could also include those who have had a postpartum tubal ligation or hysterectomy. The infants are also primarily well, but may have high-risk conditions, such as hypoglycemia or Newborn Opioid Withdrawal Syndrome (NOWS). Other duties will include education and guidance for care of postpartum mother/newborn, breastfeeding support, and completion of newborn routine testing. The postpartum nurse must be able to multitask effectively and work through multiple patients' needs simultaneously. They also need strong communication and interpersonal skills for both patient and healthcare team member interactions. You will also provide leadership for the nursing team and contribute to the education of a variety of members of the staff and students.

UPMC is committed to investing in nurses like you –financially, personally, and professionally – starting on day one of your career. From tackling student loans to advancing your career later in life, UPMC is the partner you need to succeed and thrive in your nursing career.

Here’s how we support our nurses:

• Newly competitive wages:
• $29.50 (BSN)
• $28.00 (non-BSN)
• Shift differential:  $2.00
• Title and salary will be determined based upon education and nursing experience.
• Generous Sign-On Bonus of up to $15,000.
• $15,000 sign-on bonus available for nurses with 1 or more years of experience.
• Candidates hired into a sign-on bonus eligible role will be asked to make a two-year work commitment.
• An incomparable benefit package (found to be 20% higher in value than other healthcare employers in our market!)
• Up to five and a half weeks of Paid Time Off annually, plus seven paid holidays each year
• Dedicated Professional Development Program, allowing you to achieve your highest potential while rewarding you for your experience and advanced education
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $6,000 per academic year at any accredited institution, available to employees and their dependents (plus discounts for UPMC employees including no cost RN-BSN/MSN options!)

About UPMC Magee Women’s Birthing Center (T9): T9 is a 22-bed multidisciplinary unit that contains its own triage and Operating Rooms. Patients labor, birth, recover and have their postpartum stay in the same unit permitting continuity of patient care throughout their hospital stay promoting skin to skin, support of breastfeeding, delayed bathing, and infant rooming-in. Within the unit is a 4-bed triage area for maternal monitoring of baby and evaluation of emergent obstetrical situations and concerns. Nurses are trained in labor and delivery, how to circulate in the OR for cesarean sections, care of the infant and mother postpartum, triaging patients, and neonatal resuscitation after delivery.  Neonates may need to transition in our 8-bed special care nursery, currently caring for neonates 35 weeks and greater.

Responsibilities:

• Completes annual competency validation activities. Maintains proficiency and competency in point of care testing as defined in the evaluation criteria established by the laboratory. Demonstrates professionalism in providing patient care. Adheres to universal precautions. Identified potential problems and initiates appropriate measures. Identifies environmental factors which deter effective patient care, initiates action, and contributes ideas towards resolution.
• Evaluation:
  • Revises plan of care, as necessary based on daily evaluation of patient.
  • Evaluates patient's outcome based on previously defined goals.
  • Evaluates and documents the patient's response to care, teaching, and treatment.
• Planning:
  • Includes the patient and family/significant other in the formulation of the plan of care.
  • Prioritizes patient's needs appropriately.
  • Plans, conducts, and documents patient care conferences.
  • Maintains a current plan of care for each assigned patient.
  • Utilizes appropriate community agencies and other health care professionals in planning care.
• Utilizes computer systems appropriately. Engages the medical staff and other professionals in discussion of patient care problems resulting in mutually developed plans of care.Serves as a consultant to other members of the health-care team.
• Assessment:
  • Assesses patient and family needs and documents this information appropriately in the computer or on appropriate form.
  • Reassesses patient every eight hours, and, as necessary.
• Implementation:
  • Utilizes nursing care protocols and standards.
  • Carries out and documents procedures according to Hospital Policy.
  • Performs technical skills safely and accurately and demonstrates a working knowledge of equipment.
  • Transcribes and implements physicians' orders appropriately.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of the physiological basis for the nursing care delivery.
  • Demonstrates knowledge of medication and IV therapy administration according to policy.
  • Initiates and coordinates health teaching for patients and families/significant other based on individual needs.
  • Complies with established occupational exposure policies.