Perinatal Nurse Job Description
Perinatal nurse
provides primary, secondary and coordinating tertiary care to employees in compliance with the State Nurse Practice Act.
Perinatal Nurse Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective perinatal nurse job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included perinatal nurse job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Facilitate care that is based in the nursing process and is consistent with the Oregon Nurse Practice Act
Assumes responsibility and accountability for the State Perinatal Database System NICU Module at SBUH and its affiliates
Responsible for accurate data collection and timely submission for all OB participating hospital and state initiatives
Responds appropriately to needs of patients calling into clinic including prescription refills, treatment of symptoms, following policies
Coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes
Working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary health care team to optimize team performance
Participating and promoting quality clinical improvement on unit by supporting departmental and hospital safety standards
Social, behavioral and physical knowledge of current health care environment
Assist in a standardized approach to Fetal Monitoring following the Nursing Standards of Fetal Monitoring Care and standardization of what the care providers are trained to practice every day
Bring in a component of consistency which leads to a high reliable Labor & Delivery Unit
Perinatal Nurse Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Perinatal Nurse
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: BLS, CPR, S.T.A.B.L.E, ACLS, NRP, BCLS, AHA, EFM
Education for Perinatal Nurse
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the perinatal nurse job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Associate and Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, School of Nursing, Nursing Program, Graduate, Science, Education, Associates, Patient Care, Health Care, Performance
Skills for Perinatal Nurse
Desired skills for perinatal nurse include:
Microsoft Office Suite
Specifically Excel and Microsoft Word
Workplace
Assists in achieving accreditation standard compliance
EMR
EPIC EMR
Federal regulations
Local
Nurse Practice Act
State
Desired experience for perinatal nurse includes:
Work collaboratively outside Maternal Child Services to ensure women are getting high quality care that is evidenced based to ensure good outcomes
Assisting in a standardized approach to Fetal Monitoring following the AWHONN Nursing Standards of Fetal Monitoring Care and standardization of what the care providers are trained to practice every day
Bringing in a component of consistency which leads to a high reliable Labor & Delivery Unit
Working collaboratively outside Maternal Child Services to ensure women are getting high quality care that is evidenced based to ensure good outcomes
S.T.A.B.L.E certification and completion of the AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Course within the first year of employment
One (1) year experience High Risk Labor and Delivery exp
Perinatal Nurse Examples
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Perinatal Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a perinatal nurse. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for perinatal nurse
- Assesses patients on admission to the hospital, and in the outpatient setting for Minnesota Perinatal Physicians
- Educates patients/families about self-management of acute and chronic illness in pregnancy with sensitivity to the patient's learning ability and cultural and ethnic background
- Facilitates the patient's transition between and within health care settings, such as admitting, transferring, and discharging patients
- Acts as consultant for triage nurses
- Provide staff consultation and education as needed
- Collaborates with physicians and other health care professionals as a participant in multidisciplinary quality improvement teams as assigned
- Integrates research to promote evidence-based practice for obstetric patients with complex acute, critical, or chronic illness
- Practice professional nursing which requires a broad range of general nursing knowledge and expertise
- Generates Hospital specific reports from the NICU module
- Complete NICU module summaries on all infants transferred to the NICU from affiliate
Qualifications for perinatal nurse
- One year in Labor & Delivery required
- Florida Nursing License req
- NRP within first six months of employment
- Original Nursing Degree/Diploma or Official/Unofficial Transcript indicating the nursing degree awarded
- Original FL RN license
- Original BLS for Healthcare Provider card
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Perinatal Nurse Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a perinatal nurse. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for perinatal nurse
- Collaborates with with 0.6 RPC RN and the Regional Perinatal Center Coordinator on all quality assurances activities on the data collection
- Cross covers ob RPC nurse
- Evaluate the consistency and quality of the data entered into the Core Module of the SPDS, Computer Information System (CIS) and the Antepartum data base/
- Responsible for assuring timely collection and maintenance of complete and accurate data for all the above systems
- Cross cover for NICU RPC data nurses who are responsible for the NICU module of the SPDS
- Cross-cover the birth certificate department
- Participates in perinatal research
- Functions as a liaison to the nursing staff issues related to research projects undertaken by OB faculty
- Participates in outreach quality improvement/education initiatives
- Generates hospital-specific reports from the data system that show Internal and affiliate hospital performance information for comparison purposes
Qualifications for perinatal nurse
- Current Florida RN Nursing License
- ACLS certification or agreement to obtain by completion of the ninety day probationary period
- Completion of the AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Course within the first year of employment
- One year minimum of nursing experience, preferably in OB, Labor & Delivery or Perinatal
- Requires at least 5+ years of direct clinical care
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and web browsers
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a perinatal nurse. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for perinatal nurse
- Recruits patients for research studies ensuring subject eligibility, screens patients, tracks patient data and explains the study purpose and content of each study
- Performs nursing care, nursing assessment, and data collection for clinical research studies
- Coordinates clinical research data collection for pharmaceutical studies, Federal studies or investigator initiated studies in patient records (paper and electronic), sponsors documents (electronic and paper) and other forms for data collection
- Develops procedures for inpatient and outpatient research activities, follows protocols in the scheduling of tests and procedures
- Trains other research nurses in specialized skills and knowledge necessary to perform variety of basic and complex research data collection and nursing care
- Provides working direction for research activities to nursing staff and/or other non-licensed medical or office support personnel
- Assists in resolving problems relating to patient care and acts as a patient advocate
- Monitors and evaluates patients involved in research studies, including their response to therapy
- Assists in organizing and preparing collected data for subsequent publication as appropriate
- Coordinates, if appropriate, all regulatory aspects for each study, which may include budgets, contracts, IRB submissions, and other required committee submissions
Qualifications for perinatal nurse
- Graduate from an accredited nursing diploma, associate’s, or bachelor’s of science degree program
- Recent experience caring for high risk newborns post transition through discharge
- Recent high risk postpartum or antepartum experience
- Advanced Fetal monitoring training and Certification
- One year of High Risk Antepartum or Labor experience as an RN
- Bachelor's degree in nursing or higher required within 3 years -OR- 20 years of RN experience
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a perinatal nurse. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for perinatal nurse
- Maintains inventory of investigational mediation, devices or approved medication for each protocol and acts as liaison between investigator pharmacy as each protocol requires
- Anticipate the needs of and coordinate care for a group of complex patients to achieve clinical, financial and organizational outcomes
- Work collaboratively with, and provides leadership for, a multidisciplinary Health care team to optimize team performance and patient outcomes
- Promote and identify quality improvement initiatives that are aligned with departmental and hospital safety and operational goals
- Identify methods to promote cost-effective use of resources
- Promoting and identifying quality improvement initiatives that are aligned with departmental and hospital safety and operational goals
- Collaborates and facilitates care to families with a multi-disciplinary health care team to implement a specific plan of care for defined perinatal high risk members, for optimal outcome of mothers and babies
- Ensures appropriate prenatal consultation with specialties and fetal imaging
- Assists with and facilitates the identification and tracking of prenatal patients at risk for preterm labor, current pregnancy induced hypertension and others, per entrance criteria
- Communicates results with referring OB/GYN and family
Qualifications for perinatal nurse
- Have a current BLS for Healthcare Provider card
- Have 1 year of current RN experience in a hospital setting (required)
- 1 year of recent experience with high risk antepartum patients including ability to interpret and assess fetal heart rate tracings -or- high risk postpartum and newborn couplet care
- Relevant training and certificate applicable to the position, as specified by the Nurse Manager
- Inpatient Obstetric Nursing (RNC-OB), Maternal Newborn Nursing (RNC-MNN) or Electronic Fetal Monitoring (C-EFM) certification
- Experience with both antepartum and postpartum patient populations
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a perinatal nurse. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for perinatal nurse
- Provides referral support for our partnering providers
- Participates in Center for Fetal Care outreach initiatives
- Participates in and represents the Perinatal Team in department programs and meetings
- Collaborate with, assist, and support the department’s physician director of quality, equity and safety
- Gather, compile and verify data including data entered into the department QA database
- Investigate cases designated for quality review that relate to the delivery of clinical care in the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service, following established CQS program protocols
- Supervise and monitor data entry and data quality control, entering and verifying data as needed
- Collaborate with nurse director and nurse specialist from inpatient units and outpatient departments to collect data and conduct follow-up investigations relating to incidents, adverse outcomes, patient/family dissatisfaction and equipment or service problems related to the delivery of clinical care in the Vincent Obstetrics and Gynecology Service
- Liaison with nurse director from inpatient and outpatient units to implement policy
- Conduct medical record reviews
Qualifications for perinatal nurse
- Minimum of two (2) years of recent inpatient acute care nursing experience, preferably in a women's health area
- Two (2) years of recent RN experience in Labor & Delivery or Postpartum
- Charge nurse experience within L&D required
- Graduate of a school of nursing with current California RN license
- 12 months of acute care experience working with the patient population similar to the Perinatal Special Care Unit, high risk Mother Baby or LDRP
- National Certification in Perinatal Nursing