HonorVet Technologies is seeking a travel nurse RN Labor and Delivery for a travel nursing job in Largo, Maryland.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty:Labor and Delivery
- Discipline:RN
- Start Date:06/30/2025
- Duration:13 weeks
- 36 hours per week
- Shift:12 hours, nights
- Employment Type:Travel
Title: RN - Labor and Delivery
Location: Largo, MD 20774
Duration: 13 weeks
Description:
Maternal & Fetal Assessment:
- Perform admission assessments, including obstetric history, vital signs, and fetal heart rate monitoring (intermittent and continuous).
- Interpret external (and if trained, internal) fetal monitoring strips; recognize and respond to non-reassuring patterns.
- Labor Support & Delivery Assistance:
- Provide emotional support, coaching, and pain management (e.g., epidural monitoring, IV analgesia) throughout labor.
- Assist with vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections—prepare instruments, maintain sterile field, and support obstetric team.
- Post-Delivery & Newborn Care:
- Initiate immediate newborn care: Apgar scoring, thermoregulation, and cord clamping.
- Facilitate early skin-to-skin contact and support initiation of breastfeeding.
- Monitor mother’s postpartum status: fundal checks, lochia assessment, vital signs, pain control, and uterine involution.
- Clinical Interventions & Emergency Response:
- Administer medications, IV fluids, and blood products per provider orders.
- Recognize and manage obstetric emergencies (e.g., hemorrhage, eclampsia, shoulder dystocia) and initiate appropriate protocols (e.g., Massive Transfusion, Code OB).
- Participate in neonatal resuscitation if certified (NRP).
- Documentation & Compliance:
- Accurately chart all assessments, interventions, and patient/family education in the EMR.
- Adhere to Joint Commission standards, AWHONN guidelines, and hospital policies for obstetric care and safety.
- Patient & Family Education:
- Teach peripartum patients and families about labor progress, pain-management options, newborn care, and postpartum self-care.
- Provide discharge teaching on feeding, maternal recovery, warning signs, and follow-up care.
- Collaboration & Communication:
- Coordinate with interdisciplinary teams: obstetrics, anesthesia, neonatology, lactation consultants, and social services.
- Facilitate smooth handoffs to postpartum and newborn care units.
About HonorVet Technologies
HonorVet Technologies: Pioneering Purpose, Empowering Heroes
Founded in 2015, HonorVet Technologies stands as aService-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), proudly certified byNaVOBAand theU.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Our mission goes beyond staffing—we are committed to transforming lives by addressing the critical unemployment challenges faced by veterans.
As aJoint Commission-certified clinical staffing agency, we deliver unmatched expertise in placing top-tier healthcare professionals—RNs, LPNs/LVNs, CNAs/CMAs, and NPs—across diverse facilities, including hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, old-age homes, schools, correctional facilities, and more.
At HonorVet, we don't just fill roles; we bridge gaps, uplift communities, and honor the ones who served.
Benefits
- Vision benefits
- License and certification reimbursement
- Continuing Education
- Medical benefits
- Wellness and fitness programs
- Dental benefits
- Guaranteed Hours
- Mileage reimbursement
- Referral bonus
- Bereavement
- Holiday Pay
- Sick pay
- Retention bonus
