Experience
- Minimum 1 year experience required
- Charge experience preferred or willingness to train as charge
License & Certification Required
- Current AK RN license required for Auto Offer
- BLS
- ACLS
- AWHONN Intermediate
- AWHONN Advanced
- NRP
Skills Required
- Administration of blood & blood products
- Amnioinfusion
- Antepartum care
- Antihypertensives management
- APGAR scores
- Assistance with circumcision and post-op site assessment
- Assistance with high-risk delivery
- Assistance with sterile speculum exam
- Assistance with vaginal delivery
- Baby nurse (baby catcher)
- Bladder distension management
- Breastfeeding support/lactation support
- Cervical cerclage
- Cesarean section
- Circulate for C-section
- Collect cord samples
- Cord care
- Couplet care
- D&C
- Discharge teaching to parents
- Drawing venous blood
- Epidural anesthesia
- Episiotomy/incisional care
- Fundus/lochia/perineum care
- Foley catheter insertion/management
- General anesthesia
- High risk antepartum care
- ID/security banding
- Insulin drips management
- Isolation precautions/PPE
- Labor and delivery
- Magnesium sulfate therapy
- Mother/baby care
- Multiple births' management
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Newborn assessment
- Newborn hypoglycemia management
- Nitrous oxide administration
- Non-stress tests (NST)
- Pain assessment and management
- Pitocin (oxytocin) administration
- Postpartum hemorrhage management
- Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia management
- Pregnancy-induced hypertension management
- Premature rupture of membranes management
- Preterm labor management
- Radiant warmers/thermoregulation
- Recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns
- Recovery from C-section
- Reflex checks/edema assessment/clonus management
- Scrubbing for C-section
- Starting and maintaining IVs
- Sterile vaginal exams
- Terbutaline administration
- Triage of obstetrical patients
- Use of EFM (External Fetal Heart Monitoring)
- Use of electric/manual breast pump
- Use of external fetal monitoring
- Use of infusion pumps/drips/IV monitoring
- Use of internal fetal monitoring
- Use of IUPC (Intrauterine pressure catheter) placement and calibration
- Vaccine administration
- Vaginal delivery
- VBAC management/trial of labor
- Wound assessment/care
