Registered Nurse Labor & Delivery NIGHTS $20k sign-on bonus Wilson County Hospital

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:  Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Organization:

Labor and Delivery

Job Summary:

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Responsible for assessing, implementing, and evaluating care for various patients within the facility. Reports directly to the Clinical Director of the unit. This position works in conjunction with other members of nursing service, ancillary services, physicians, patients, and families. It collaborates with various members of the healthcare team to ensure quality of care across the continuum. Requires the ability to be self-directed and quality focused. Interpersonal communication skills are a necessary function of this position.

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Hours of Position:

7p-7a, 36 hours/week

$20k Sign-on Bonus for eligible candidates (current employees and candidates who have worked at Vanderbilt within the last year are not eligible.)

Department Summary:

Within our unit, we have several areas that serve the community. This is where Labor and Delivery, OB triage, OB OR, antepartum, postpartum and our newborn nursery are located. We are located on the first floor at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital and have our own entrance in the Women's Pavilion that is open for patients and visiting hours from 6am-9pm. Before and after these hours, patients would enter through the emergency room.

The environment on our unit consists of a friendly and compassionate group of multi-disciplinary staff who are teamwork-oriented with a focus on safety and quality.  Our goal is to make each patient’s experience special.  Our focus is to care for women and provide extraordinary care.  There are 6 labor beds, 12 post partum beds and 14 Nursery beds.

Every pregnancy is unique, which is why we provide individualized, family-centered care, making the patient's experience as special as possible.

Our nurses are successful because they have a desire to go above and beyond to customize care for their patients, have the knowledge and skills to perform their jobs, and leadership that supports safe and effective care.

We orient new nurses to our unit by meeting them where they are experience-wise and providing them with the tools they need to be successful.  Orientation time is based on the nurse's experience with training and support needed to provide safe, quality care.  We provide educational opportunities for BLS, ACLS, NRP, STABLE and AWHONN Fetal Monitoring. We also send our nurses to workshops such as Spinning Babies, to enrich our educational tools to support our patients' desire to deliver naturally. 

We also have nurses that are trained as lactation counselors, offering breastfeeding education and lactation support. We offer free childbirth classes as well as breastfeeding preparation classes as well, for our community. We have outpatient lactation appointments on campus.

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