Attachment B - Statement of Duties Womens Health Unit Scrub Tech.pdf
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This document provides the statement of duties for a Women's Health OR Nursing Assistant position at the Gallup Indian Medical Center. The duties include assisting with non-stress tests, triaging patients and taking vitals, assisting certified nurse midwives and registered nurses as needed, providing care to laboring patients by taking vital signs and being present for deliveries, setting up delivery tables using sterile technique, assisting with repairs and administering various medications using sterile technique, monitoring patients using electronic fetal monitoring and intermittent auscultation, assisting with epidural/spinal anesthesia, managing labor in collaboration with certified nurse midwives, circulating during C-sections, acting as the baby nurse during deliveries to provide resuscitation as needed and administering newborn medications and vitamins, practicing baby-friendly breastfeeding steps, providing postpartum care including recovering patients with spinal anesthesia after C-sections, performing daily assessments, administering medications, supporting breastfeeding, and providing discharge teaching.
The related federal contract opportunity is for non-personal healthcare services of various registered nurses for the emergency department, intensive care unit, perioperative services, and other areas. The solicitation number is 75H71021Q00008 and is being offered by the Department of Health and Human Services Indian Health Service.
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03/2016
Indian Health Service
Statement of duties
Position title:
Duty location:
Provide specific statement of duties for position to be filled:
| Position title: Women's Health OR Nursing Assistant |
| Duty location: Gallup Indian Medical Center |
| Provide specific statement of duties for position to be filled: Certification Requirements: |
1. BCLS
Shift:
80-84 Hrs Per Pay Period / 12 Hr Day/night Shifts /includes, Weekends and Holidays
Statement of Duties: The Women’s Health Unit at Gallup Indian Medical Center cares for complex high-risk populations. We are a referral center for Zuni Hospital, Crownpoint Hospital, and Fort Defiance Hospital. The unit has 5 LDR rooms, 2 triage beds and 7 postpartum beds. The total number of deliveries per year is estimated at 450 with a C-Section rate of 19% in 2018. Care is provided for patients from antenatal through post-partum with 24/7 rooming-in of the neonate. Antenatal testing is completed on the floor in triage as an outpatient service. We have the capacity to continuously monitor with central monitor capability in each labor room, in the nurses station and at the provider desk. We also have the capability to monitor up to four active fetal strips from monitors in the OB clinic and in provider offices. A fully equipped OR on the floor allows for prompt response to a need for Cesarean Sections. Primary care providers consist of Certified Nurse Midwives and Obstetricians. AWHONN staffing guidelines are used taking into account patient acuity as well as staff experience and competence.
Contract OR NA duties:
• Assists with scheduled NST’s
• Puts triage patients in triage bed and takes vitals, assisting CNM and RN as needed
• Assists with patient transfers to higher level of care by making packets
• Provides care to laboring patients as nursing assistant by taking vital signs, and being present during deliveries o Sets up delivery table using sterile technique o Assists CNM and OB with repairs using sterile technique o o Administers Labetalol o Administers antibiotics o Administers uterotonics as needed o Foley insertion o Monitors patients using electronic fetal monitoring and intermittent auscultation o Assists with epidural/spinal anesthesia o Manages labor in collaboration with CNM o Circulates during C-Sections (will train as needed)
• Provides care to neonate o Acts as baby nurse during delivery (NSVD and C-Section) o Provides resuscitation as needed o Administers Vitamin K and Erythromycin o Practices Baby Friendly 10 steps for successful breastfeeding o Provides care during postpartum period o IV starts with assistance o Administers antibiotics as needed
• Provides care to postpartum patients o Recovers patient with spinal after C-Section (will train as needed) o Daily shift assessments o Administers uterotonics as needed o Supports breastfeeding o Provides discharge teaching
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