Rn Mother Baby Center

Department: 38014500 Mercy Mother Baby Center Mother Baby
Shift: Day/Evening (United States of America)
Hours: 28
Contract: MNA-5-Mercy RN
Weekend Rotation: Every Other
Job Profile Summary: Nursing is the diagnosis and treatment of human response to actual or potential health problems. This includes establishing an intentional therapeutic relationship between a registered nurse and a patient and family. As a leader and the integrator of care, the professional nurse has the responsibility, authority, and accountability for planning, coordinating and evaluating the patient’s care needs. Provides care to the obstetrics patients and their families during during the antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum period.
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Principle Responsibilities

• Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues and communities.
• Utilizes the best evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.
• Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and regulatory guidelines.
• Preceptor (only when acting in this role).
  • Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs and plans appropriate learning experiences.
  • Demonstrates ability to implement an individualized orientation plan for the orientee.
  • Demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of orientee.
  • Facilitates development of organizational and prioritization skills of orientee.
  • Demonstrates ability to evaluate interpersonal sills of orientee.
  • Serves as a professional role model.
  • Facilitated socialization of orientee into the organization and work group.
• Attains knowledge of environmental health concepts, such as implementation of environmental health strategies.
• Quality of Practice.
  • Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
  • Participates in quality improvement activities related to nursing practice.
  • Incorporates available QI data to improve nursing practice and outcome.
• Participates in educational activities related to nursing practice.
• Assessment.
  • Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
  • Collects and prioritizes data in a systematic and ongoing process that involves the patient, family, other health care providers and environment as appropriate.
  • Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.
  • Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and instruments in data collection.
• Incorporates available QI data to improve nursing practice and outcome.
• Evaluates the patient’s/family’s understanding of and response to the plan of care.
• Involves the patient, family, and health care team members in the evaluation process when appropriate.
• Promotes a positive work environment.
• Ethics.
  • Acts in an ethical manner.
  • Maintains a therapeutic and professional patient-nurse relationship with appropriate professional role boundaries.
  • Serves as a patient advocate assisting patients in developing skills for self-advocacy
  • Uses available resources to help formulate ethical decisions.
• Facilitates development of organizational and prioritization skills of orientee.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Participates in quality improvement activities related to nursing practice.
• Demonstrates ability to evaluate interpersonal sills of orientee.
• Develops an individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.
• Resource Utilization.
  • Incorporates factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in planning and delivering patient care.
  • Utilizes resources related to standards of care in a safe, effective and ethical manner.
  • Manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in the future.
• Serves as a professional role model.
• Outcomes Identification.
  • Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
  • Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.
• Education.
  • Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
  • Participates in educational activities related to nursing practice.
  • Acquires and applies the knowledge gained from educational experiences to current nursing practice.
• Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate manner.
• Professional Practice Evaluation.
  • Evaluates one’s own nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and regulatory guidelines.
  • Engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis, identifying strengths and goals for professional development.
  • Obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Promotes an environment that encourages individual growth, nurtures professional practice and fosters teamwork.
• Uses appropriate evidence based assessment techniques and instruments in data collection.
• Integrates data relevant to the situation to identify needs, patterns and variances.
• Shares knowledge and skills in practice settings.
• Collegiality.
  • Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others.
  • Shares knowledge and skills in practice settings.
  • Provides immediate and ongoing positive and constructive feedback to colleagues regarding their performance.
  • Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes through knowledge of the patient or situation.
• Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific to the diagnoses as appropriate.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress towards attainment of the outcome.
• Manages resources to assure they will be accessible to other in the future.
• Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Obtains informal feedback regarding one’s own practice from patients, peers, professional colleagues, and others.
• Diagnosis.
  • Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
  • Interprets assessment information to identify each patient's needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.
  • Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect the current patient status.
  • Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other health care team members.
  • Documents nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care guidelines.
• Utilizes resources related to standards of care in a safe, effective and ethical manner.
• Demonstrates ability to validate clinical competence of orientee.
• Incorporates factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact on practice in planning and delivering patient care.
• Maintains a therapeutic and professional patient-nurse relationship with appropriate professional role boundaries.
• Attains knowledge and competency that reflects current nursing practice.
• Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care.
• Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care.
• Participates in shared decision-making.
• Planning.
  • Develops a plan that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes.
  • Develops an individualized plan considering patient characteristics or the situation as appropriate in conjunction with the patient, family and others.
  • Establishes a plan that provides for continuity of care.
  • Incorporates evidence based nursing practice takes into consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.
• Charge Nurse (only when acting in this role).
  • Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation so the patient and family needs are met and resources are efficiently utilized in a safe manner.
  • Promotes an environment that encourages individual growth, nurtures professional practice and fosters teamwork.
  • Collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other disciplines.
• Evaluation.
  • Evaluates the patient’s progress towards attainment of the outcome.
  • Evaluates the patient’s/family’s understanding of and response to the plan of care.
  • Utilizes systematic and ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care.
  • Involves the patient, family, and health care team members in the evaluation process when appropriate.
  • Documents revisions in diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care according to documentation guidelines.
• Serves as a patient advocate assisting patients in developing skills for self-advocacy
• Validates and communicates nursing diagnoses with the patient, family and other health care team members.
• Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Documents interventions according to documentation guidelines.
• Integrates research findings in practice.
• Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate
• Leadership.
  • Provides leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
  • Functions as a professional role model.
  • Promotes a positive work environment.
  • Participates in shared decision-making.
• Environmental Health.
  • Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
  • Attains knowledge of environmental health concepts, such as implementation of environmental health strategies.
  • Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for workers and healthcare consumers.
  • Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to healthcare consumers, families, colleagues and communities.
• Implementation.
  • Implements the identified plan.
  • Implements interventions in a safe, timely, appropriate manner.
  • Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific to the diagnoses as appropriate.
  • Coordinates implementation of the plan of care if appropriate
  • Documents interventions according to documentation guidelines.
• Collaborates effectively with unit staff, leadership and other disciplines.
• Interprets assessment information to identify each patient's needs relative to age, developmental stage and culture.
• Collects and prioritizes data in a systematic and ongoing process that involves the patient, family, other health care providers and environment as appropriate.
• Demonstrates ability to coordinate and direct unit operation so the patient and family needs are met and resources are efficiently utilized in a safe manner.
• Implements the identified plan.
• Identifies expected outcomes individualized to the patient.
• Acquires and applies the knowledge gained from educational experiences to current nursing practice.
• Establishes, in the collaboration with the family, patient, realistic and measurable patient expected outcomes based on nursing diagnoses, patients present and potential capabilities, goals, available resources and plan for continuity of care.
• Facilitated socialization of orientee into the organization and work group.
• Incorporates evidence based nursing practice takes into consideration current statutes, rules and regulations when developing the plan of care.
• Engages in self-evaluation of practice on a regular basis, identifying strengths and goals for professional development.
• Functions as a professional role model.
• Contributes to the professional development of peers, colleagues, and others.
• Acts in an ethical manner.
• Uses available resources to help formulate ethical decisions.
• Formulates, revises and resolves nursing diagnoses that reflect the current patient status.
• Provides immediate and ongoing positive and constructive feedback to colleagues regarding their performance.
• Collects, prioritizes and synthesizes comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health or situation.
• Research.
  • Integrates research findings in practice.
  • Utilizes the best evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.
• Documents revisions in diagnoses, outcomes and the plan of care according to documentation guidelines.
• Contributes to a supportive and healthy work environment.
• Documents nursing diagnoses in compliance with the patient care guidelines.
• Systematically enhances the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for workers and healthcare consumers.
• Analyzes assessment data to determine nursing diagnoses.
• Collaboration.
  • Collaborates with patient, family, and others in the conduct of nursing practice.
  • Partners with others to effect change and generate positive outcomes through knowledge of the patient or situation.
• Demonstrates ability to identify the orientee's learning needs and plans appropriate learning experiences.
• Demonstrates ability to implement an individualized orientation plan for the orientee.

Job Requirements

• BLS Tier 1 - Basic Life Support - Multisource required by completion of orientation
• NRP - Neonatal Resuscitation - Multisource required
• Licensed Registered Nurse - MN Board of Nursing required if working in the state of MN upon hire or
• RN-C in related specialty preferred

Physical Demands
Medium Work*:
Lifting weight Up to 32 lbs. occasionally (*Allina Safe Patient Moving Policy), Up to 25 lbs. frequently

Additional :

Tier1: One or more years Labor & Delivery RN experience within the last 3 years

Tier 2: One or more years postpartum experience

Tier 3: One or more years of acute care experience or new graduate with OB capstone/OB internship experience

0.7 FTE

Day/Evening

8 hour shifts

Every other weekend

MNA contract

Benefit eligible