Registered Nurse Labor and Delivery

Job Title

Registered Nurse – Labor and Delivery

Location

Kansas City, MO | Acute Care Hospital

Schedule / Job Type

Contract | Days | Full-Time | 3x12-Hour Shifts (6:45 AM – 7:15 PM) | Onsite

Key Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive nursing care within an LDRP model, including triage, antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care with full couplet care required
• Circulate and assist with vaginal deliveries and C-sections, including recovery of C-section patients
• Administer and monitor medications including Pitocin, Magnesium Sulfate, antihypertensives, prostaglandins, and terbutaline; manage IV therapy, infusion pumps, and blood product administration
• Perform and interpret external and internal fetal monitoring, including IUPC placement and recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns
• Provide newborn care including assessment, phototherapy, hypoglycemia management, thermoregulation, and discharge teaching to parents
• Participate in holiday shifts, weekend rotation (4–6 Sat/Sun shifts and 2 Fridays per 6-week schedule), charge RN assignments as needed, and 2 mandatory on-call shifts per 6-week schedule period

Required Qualifications

• Active RN license; both Kansas and Missouri licensure (or compact license) required at time of submission
• Minimum 3 years of Labor and Delivery experience; first-time travelers not accepted
• Required certifications: BLS, Fetal Heart Monitoring (FHM), and NRP
• Proficiency with Epic EMR required
• No pending licenses accepted
• Must live at least 75 miles from the facility to be eligible

Preferred Experience / Skills

• AWHONN Advanced or AWHONN Intermediate certification preferred
• Community hospital experience preferred
• Experience assisting with high-risk deliveries, scrubbing for C-sections, and cervical cerclage procedures
• Familiarity with neonatal resuscitation, APGAR scoring, and use of rapid response teams

Why Join Us

• Work in a full-scope LDRP environment covering a wide range of obstetric and gynecological procedures in an acute care hospital setting
• Scrubs provided and parking is complimentary