RN L&D Nights Charge

Job Summary

Join a team that promotes a positive work environment and a positive culture for our staff and our patients!

Exceptional Hourly Rate PLUS many company benefits!

This is not a new grad opportunity and require at least 12 months of RN experience in specialty area.

Our Family Birthing Center is an LDRP composed of 14 rooms, which includes 6 labor rooms, 1 Antepartum room, 4 Recovery rooms, 3 triage bays, and a 3 bed well-baby nursery. We staff by AWHONN standards, and are truly a community hospital serving the ever-growing Mat-Su Borough, in addition to several villages throughout Alaska (which several are only accessible by flight). Our staff works closely together as a team, as we provide every type of care from admission all the way through postpartum.

When you experience the camaraderie and the compassion that our team has towards our patients, it is understandable why we maintain such a high patient satisfaction rate.

Essential Functions

• Supervises and supports nursing and support staff, delegating tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Evaluates staff performance, providing feedback and coaching to maintain high standards of care.
• Oversees the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care, ensuring patient care plans are followed and adjusted as needed.
• Collaborates with healthcare professionals to coordinate patient care and resolve issues related to patient flow or care delivery.
• Ensures effective communication among physicians, patients, families, and hospital departments, including managing shift handoffs and unit huddles.
• Monitors patient flow, manages bed assignments, and optimizes resource utilization within the unit.
• Conducts employee and patient rounding to evaluate care delivery and satisfaction.
• Monitors adherence to safety standards, infection control protocols, and hospital policies, addressing non-compliance promptly.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives and audits to enhance patient outcomes and ensure compliance with healthcare regulations.
• Ensures necessary medical supplies are available and properly utilized while maintaining cost-effective resource management.
• Facilitates ongoing education and professional development for nursing staff and ensures training needs are met.
• Leads efforts in infection prevention by conducting audits, educating staff, and ensuring adherence to protocols for hand hygiene, sterilization, and use of PPE.
• Responds to emergencies within the unit, providing leadership and direct care as necessary.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Licenses and Certifications

As a core employee with Mat-Su Regional, you will be eligible for competitive base pay, night shift incentives, and a robust total rewards compensation package. Our benefits package includes some of the following : health insurance, dental, vision, 401K, PTO and more! Mat-Su company insured and family members will be eligible for drastic medical care discounts in all areas of care! You can also qualify for tuition assistance and a loan reimbursement program up to $20,000! . Apply to learn more!

Mat-Su Regional Medical Center has twice been named one of the Top 150 Places to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Hospital Review and in 2019 received the Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association's patient safety award, "High Reliability : Persevering in the Pursuit of Zero Patient Harm." Mat-Su Regional Medical Center is your community healthcare provider, a 125-bed facility with a wide range of inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic imaging and emergency, medical and surgical services. Mat-Su Regional Medical Center also offers a sleep lab, cardiac catheterization lab, advanced wound care, inpatient behavioral health services, three off-site urgent care facilities, robotic surgery and advanced total hip replacement procedures.

From the majestic Pioneer and Twin Peaks in the Chugach Range to the Talkeetna Mountains in Southcentral Alaska, Palmer is framed in breathtaking beauty. Located 42 miles northeast of Anchorage on the Glenn Highway in the Matanuska Valley, the city's unique history and heritage are unparalleled in the state.

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