Charge Registered Nurse-Labor and Delivery
Work location: 4400 Long Prairie Rd., Flower Mound, TX 75028
Work hours: Full time, Night shift
Department highlights:- a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb;}tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;}tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5;}75-100 deliveries per month, offering a steady and engaging clinical environment
- 8 Labor & Delivery rooms, 2 operating rooms, and 2 triage rooms
- Level II Maternal Designation
- Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- No OB Emergency Department
- 24/7 in-house anesthesia coverage for continuous support and patient safety
- Collaborative Women's Services team with supportive, highly engaged leadership
- Strong Unit-Based Council (UBC) with opportunities for nurse involvement and engagement
- Self-scheduling opportunities that support work-life balance
Here's What You Need- Nursing Diploma - Required
- Associate Degree in Nursing - Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing - Preferred
- Minimum 1 year of experience as a Registered Nurse - Required
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Registered Nurse - Preferred
- Minimum 1 years of experience as a Registered Nurse in Labor and Delivery - Highly preferred
Licenses & Certifications- Registered Nurse (RN) - Required upon hire
- BCLS - Basic Cardiac Life Support - Required prior to providing independent patient care; maintained quarterly
- ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support - Required within 90 days of hire
- NRP - Essential Neonatal Resuscitation Program - Required within 90 days of hire
- CPI - Crisis Prevention Intervention Training - Required within 90 days of hire; maintained annually
- NRPA - Advanced Neonatal Resuscitation Program - Required within 90 days of hire
- Intermediate Fetal Monitoring (IFM):
- If newly hired with perinatal experience and have never taken IFM - required within 6 months
- If no experience in perinatal nursing - required within 18 months
- AWHONN - Advanced Fetal Monitoring - Required within 18 months (after 6 months of experience with EFM)
Skills- A high degree of confidentiality, positive interpersonal skills, and ability to function in a fast-paced environment.
What You Will Do- Model the Quality Caring Model by demonstrating the eight caring factors-including meeting basic human needs, showing human respect, engaging families, practicing mutual problem-solving, attentive reassurance, encouraging communication, and creating a healing environment.
- Lead teamwork and collaboration by coordinating with the full healthcare team to ensure "individuals caring for individuals, together."
- Support shared decision-making through active participation in unit-based councils and shared governance structures.
- Promote professional development by advancing personal clinical knowledge, supporting peers, and engaging in lifelong learning to strengthen nursing practice.
- Assist unit leadership by providing staff guidance, ensuring a clean and safe environment, completing operational tasks, and demonstrating key skills such as quality management, conflict resolution, critical thinking, delegation, patient safety, and care coordination.
Additional perks of being a Texas Health employee- Depending on status, benefits include 401k, PTO, medical, dental, Paid Parental Leave, flex spending, tuition reimbursement, student Loan replacement programs as well as several other benefits.
- Delivery of high quality of patient care through nursing education, nursing research and innovations in nursing practice.
- Strong Unit Based Council (UBC).
- A supportive, team environment with outstanding opportunities for growth.
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