Nurse Manager Labor and Delivery

The Labor & Delivery Unit has 12 labor rooms, a 4-bed triage area, 3 dedicated operating rooms, and a 2-bay PACU. We provide patient care for our most complex and fragile patients as well as to patients who prefer low intervention births. We have a robust midwifery practice that also promotes underwater birth. OHSU also has specialized programs coordinated by  maternal fetal medicine providers, neonatologists, pediatric surgeons and specialty care coordinators who help coordinate care, so our families have all the cutting-edge care at their fingertips. It is truly an exciting place to work.

 

This unit has cohesive, collaborative working relationships with the Mother Baby Unit, the NICU, and physicians. It offers very high quality, family-centered, equitable care. Autonomy is supported. There are complex patients (both those giving birth and newborns). It is supported by highly skilled NICU partners, and the Nurse Manager role is supported by an Assistant Nurse Manager role.

 

The Labor & delivery unit provides intrapartum, antepartum and newborn care to low-risk and at-risk populations.  Care is provided based on acuity and patient type and is in line with the Association of Obstetric, Women’s Health and Neonatal Nurses Guidelines for patients care (AWHONN).

 

• We staff to AWHONN standards.
• This unit has a Maternal Cardiac program.
• We have a Fetal Surgery program, supporting the following among other things:
• Intrauterine Fetal Neural Tube Defect repair
• Intrauterine ablations for twin-to-twin transfusions (TTTS)
• Fetal blood transfusions
• Amniotic fluid reduction
• 80% of the nurses on this unit hold advanced certifications.
• Our nurses are represented on our Shared Governance committee.

The Nurse Manager (NM) is a Registered Nurse (RN) who is responsible for operational, human resources, quality, and financial management of the assigned care area. The NM works with the interdisciplinary team to translate and implement organizational and division priorities into the care area’s operations. The NM ensures a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff. The NM partners with the interdisciplinary care team to ensure the delivery of safe, quality patient care and compliance with administrative, regulatory and clinical policies and procedures. The NM implements quality and safety initiatives, leads process improvement, ensures adherence to hospital and clinical standards of performance, and human resource management. The NM ensures adherence to regulatory standards, bargaining care area agreements, hospital and clinical standards of performance, and human resource management. The NM creates and sustains a patient care environment that supports a safe, knowledgeable, compassionate, productive, and engaged staff.

 

The NM’s decisions and actions are based on the ethical principles outlined by the American Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Nursing. The NM practices in adherence with the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) Nursing Administration: Scope and Standards of Practice for Nurse Administrators, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nursing, the Oregon State Board of Nursing’s Nurse Practice Act, and within the context of the Nurse Manager Competencies developed by the American Organization of Nurse Leaders (AONL). The NM exemplifies the principles of the OHSU Culture of Safety Position Statement by committing to a Just Culture, a Reporting Culture, a Learning Culture, and an Engaged Informed Culture.

 

 

•   Comprehensive health care plans that cover 100% for a full-time employee and

      88% for dependents for .75 FTE and higher.•    $50K of term life insurance provided at no cost to the employee•    Two separate above market pension plans to choose from•    Paid time off- 208 hours per year (full-time), prorated for part-time•    Extended illness bank- 64 hours per year, prorated for part-time•    9 paid holidays per year•    Three weeks of paid parental leave•    Adoption assistance program (up to 5k)•    Substantial Tri-met and C-Tran discounts•    Tuition Reimbursement•    Innovative Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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