Being a Labor & Delivery Nurse for a Traveling Nurses Company

If you are applying at a traveling nurses company for a labor and delivery job, then you must meet a certain skill set to be considered. Many of the skills include antepartum, labor assessment, pregnancy complications, and infant interventions after delivery, phlebotomy, pain management & anesthesia, post partum interventions, and interventions during delivery.

A traveling nurses company will insist that you have antepartum experience. This includes knowledge and experience of breathing and relaxation techniques, inserting a catheter, performing and understanding the importance of what you see when performing a sonogram. A labor assessment means that you can assess the mother and the fetus and see any complications, the fetal position, if the mother is really in labor, and understand the fetal heart rate.

A traveling nurse's company also wants you to be able to understand and be knowledgeable of complications. Complications might include fetal movement, cesarean, tubal litigation, and normal cardiac rhythms. You should also know about pulmonary artery catheters and all types of monitoring with the mother and baby.

Infant interventions after delivery include knowing how to properly do an apgar score, a newborn physical assessment, teaching the mother how to give her newborn a bath, take care of the circumcision area, breast feeding, how to resuscitate a baby, and more.

Post partum interventions assist the mother with taking care of herself after delivery of the baby. Showing the mother how to take care of herself is of the utmost importance because she has to be healthy enough to take care of her baby.

Pain management is another important skill that you must be experienced with if you are interested in working for a traveling nurse's company. This is because you must know how to give an epidural, how to properly position the patient, properly assess a patient's level of pain, coaching the patient, and more.

A traveling nurse's company wants to make sure that they are hiring nothing but the best. You should have the appropriate skills depending on your specialization as a nurse and you should be knowledgeable of the patients needs. Working in labor and delivery, you must know everything prior to delivery of the baby and after.