Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sits with and monitors patient throughout (before/during/after) the labor
• Monitors contractions and helps patient with breathing techniques
• Performs basic IV and central line skills
• Performs phlebotomy skills
• Knowledge of hemodynamics
• Administers pain medication as ordered; administers other meds to address specific
• medical conditions,such as hypertension and diabetes
• Takes and records patient’s vital signs, ascertains if problematic
• Reads fetal monitor & ascertains if there is a problem with baby’s heart rate
• Identifies & manages life-sustaining physiological functions in unstable patients
• Checks patient’s cervix periodically to monitor progression/lack of dilation
• Ensures patient’s bed is kept dry & clean; cleans up bodily fluids expelled before & after the birthing process
• Contacts anesthesia when/if patient is ready for epidural; contacts delivering physician at appropriate time, ascertains proper time
• Cares for patients on Pitocin, MgSO4 & continuous lumbar epidural
• Ensures patient is in proper position for delivery & all monitoring equipment is functioning properly
• Aids doctor with drapes, gloves, gowns, etc.; hands doctor delivery instruments as needed during birthing process
• Encourages patient to push at proper time(s)
• Records time of birth
• Immediate care of newborn (clean, weigh, etc.)
• Gives Apgar scores

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Graduate of an accredited nursing program
• Current nursing license, in good standing with the State licensing board
• Minimum of one (1) year Labor & Delivery (L/D) experience
• Cognitive skills as related to the position
• Ability to lift twenty (20) pounds. Moving, lifting or transferring of patients may involve lifting of up to fifty
• (50) pounds
• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods
• Ability to bend, lean and stoop without hindrance; full range of body motion
• Fine motor skills
• Visual acuity; normal range of hearing