Labour Nurse

Meeting with expectant mothers for prenatal visits and providing care for normal and problematic pregnancies.
- Teaching childbirth preparation classes.
- Providing information, guidance, and hands-on clinical care to pregnant women.
- Monitoring fetal heartbeat and length and strength of contractions during labor.
- Coaching women, assisting with any complications and administering medications during birth.
- Performing tests on newborns after birth.
- Providing guidance to new mothers on all aspects of recovery and infant care.
- Using equipment and administering medications related to labor, delivery, and the care of newborns.
- Sits with and monitors patient throughout (before/during/after) the labor
- Monitors contractions and helps patients with breathing techniques
- Performs basic IV and central line skills
- Performs phlebotomy skills
- Knowledge of thermodynamics
- Administers pain medication as ordered; administers other beds 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 Pinto, 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.)

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