Moore County Hospital District (MCHD) is an award winning Joint Commission accredited Critical Access Hospital located in the High Plains of Texas in the town of Dumas.

MCHD serves a population base that covers six counties and consistently performs alongside top hospitals in the nation, both rural and urban, in clinical measures, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.

MCHD is a recipient of the Hurst Gold Standard of Nursing Award, the Studer Excellence in Patient Care Award, the TORCH Light award, the Joint Commission Top Performer award, the Texas Healthcare Quality Improvement Award, the Studer Healthcare Partner of the Month award, the Home Care Elite award, and more. MCHD's 2019 Press Ganey Employee Engagement Survey ranked MCHD in the top 95% of healthcare organizations nationally for employee job satisfaction and engagement.

This is a Full Time position.

SUMMARY: Provides direct patient care in the acute care departments. Communicates with physicians, nurses, and other staff about patient’s clinical condition including but not limited to results of diagnostic studies, and symptomatology. Ability to respond quickly and accurately to changes in patient’s condition. Additionally, is cross trained to perform general nursing duties in other departments and may be asked to do any reasonable job duty within scope of practice.

Labor and Delivery Nurse / Circulating Nurse / Newborn Nursery Nurse

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Assess patients in triage for preterm labor, active labor, rupture of waters, pregnancy complications, or co-existing issues
• Assist in maintaining pregnancy in antepartum mothers
• Fetal assessment and monitoring
• Maternal physical assessment(s)
• Manage patients in labor, including induction assistance, epidural assistance, pain management, education, and delivery support
• Assist and circulate in operating room for cesarean sections, tubal, and emergency obstetric and gynecological procedures
• Medication administration and immunizations
• Patient education related to medications, labor, pushing, delivering, and postpartum care of mother and baby
• Newborn care and assessment for healthy infant
• Breastfeeding and postpartum support/management
• Charting via electronic medical records
• Assist with fetal demise
• Collaboration with care management team, including anesthesiologist, physician or midwife, lactation nurse, and charge nurse

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Six months nursing experience in a hospital setting preferred.

LICENSURE / CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

• Current Texas RN license or RN Compact licensure and current CPR certification required.
• ALCS Certification required or must be obtained within first year of employment.
• Departmental requirements are as follows:

OB – Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), Fetal Monitoring and STABLE required or obtained within first year.