Experience
- Minimum 1 year experience required
- Previous charge experience preferred or willing to train
License & Certification Required
- AK RN license in hand for Auto Offer
- BLS
- ACLS
- AWHONN Intermediate
- AWHONN Advanced
- NRP
Skills Required
- Administration of blood & blood products
- Amnioinfusion
- Antepartum care
- Antihypertensives
- APGAR scores
- Assist with circumcision and assess site post-op
- Assist with high-risk delivery
- Assist with sterile speculum exam (effacement, dilation, station, presentation)
- Assist with vaginal delivery
- Baby nurse (baby catcher)
- Bladder distension
- 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
- Foley catheter insertion/management
- Fundus/lochia/perineum care
- High-risk antepartum
- ID/security banding
- Insulin drips
- Isolation precautions/PPE
- Labor & delivery
- Magnesium sulfate therapy
- Mother/baby care
- Multiple births
- Multiple gestations
- Neonatal resuscitation
- Newborn assessment
- Newborn hypoglycemia
- Nitrous oxide
- NST (Non-stress tests)
- Pain assessment & management
- Pitocin (oxytocin)
- Postpartum hemorrhage care
- Pre-eclampsia/eclampsia
- Pregnancy-induced hypertension
- Premature rupture of membranes
- Preterm labor care
- Radiant warmers/thermoregulation
- Recognition and treatment of abnormal fetal heart rate patterns
- Recover C-section
- Reflex checks/edema assessment/clonus
- Scrub for C-section
- Starting and maintaining IVs
- Sterile vaginal exam
- 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
Desired Skills
- Charge experience preferred
