Nurse (Labor and Delivery) - Camp Lejeune, United States - Department Of Defense

    Department Of Defense
    Department Of Defense Camp Lejeune, United States

    1 month ago

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    Full time
    Description

    Summary



    About the Position: Serve as Nurse (Labor and Delivery) within the Defense Health Agency (DHA), North Carolina Coast Market, Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune.

    • This is a Direct Hire Solicitation.
    • Incentives may be authorized.
    • Advanced in-hire rate may be authorized.


    Duties

    • Provide comprehensive specialized nursing care to complicated and routine antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, and perioperative obstetric patients and their neonates.
    • Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate complicated and routine obstetric and neonatal patients who require close observation for subtle changes in condition.
    • Consistently utilize advanced assessment skills to identify difficult patient care problems, formulate plans to meet complex patient care needs, and continually revise goals and objectives according to changes in maternal/fetal status.
    • Monitor, evaluate and document the status of laboring patients through frequent checks of blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation, and fetal monitor patterns and reports findings to the provider as appropriate.