REGISTERED NURSE -MOTHER BABY

MOTHER BABY /POST PARTUM

F/T NIGHT 7:00 PM – 7:30 AM

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center a member of the Medisys Health Network is a 404-bed fully accredited community-based teaching hospital and Level I Trauma and Stroke Center. We provide general medical, pediatric, and psychiatric emergency services, ambulatory care on and off campus, ambulatory surgery and a broad spectrum of diagnostic and treatment services. We are currently seeking experienced Mother Baby /Post-Partum Nurses for immediate full-time night shift opportunities. Selected candidates will provide quality healthcare to mothers and newborns.

DUTIES

• Conducting breastfeeding education, and health teaching related to the developing family unit
• Administering vaccinations and performing routine tests on newborns.
• Monitoring and performing thorough assessments of high and low risk mothers and newborns after delivery to ascertain proper healing and recovery. 
• Educating new parents on how to properly care for infants, instructing parents on general newborn care, and feeding techniques for breastfeeding and bottle-feeding mothers.
• Working collaboratively with interdisciplinary team to manage women and newborns with complex medical conditions in the postpartum period to ensure healthy outcomes.
• Providing postpartum couplet care to both the parents and the infant, 
• Educating expecting mothers about proper pre-, and post-natal care and the birthing process through therapeutic communications
• Utilizing EPIC EMR system to prepare timely and accurate electronic medical documentation.