About This Position
Take on a 26-week Labor and Delivery RN contract in Eureka, CA, with day shifts, 36 guaranteed hours per week, and an hourly rate of $72.00-$85.00. Join Quick2Hire and bring your maternal-newborn expertise to a rewarding travel assignment beginning October 19, 2026.
Position Details
- Role: Registered Nurse - General
- Unit: Labor and Delivery RN
- Location: Eureka, CA
- Employment type: Travel/Contract
- Shift: Day, 3x12 hours, 6:00 AM-4:00 PM
- Duration: 26 weeks
- Guaranteed hours: 36 per week
- Start date: October 19, 2026
Responsibilities
- Provide nursing care across antepartum, Labor and Delivery, LDRP, postpartum, mother/baby, and newborn settings.
- Support labor management, vaginal deliveries, high-risk deliveries, cesarean sections, postpartum recovery, and couplet care.
- Assess and monitor laboring patients, postpartum patients, newborns, and obstetrical emergencies.
- Deliver safe IV therapy, medication administration, fetal monitoring, newborn care, and patient education.
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team while maintaining accurate clinical documentation.
Requirements
- Active Registered Nurse licensure appropriate for the assignment.
- ACLS, AWHONN Intermediate, BLS, and NRP certifications.
- Epic charting experience is required.
- IV therapy and phlebotomy: administration of blood and blood products; drawing venous blood; maintaining central lines, including CVC/PICC; starting and maintaining IVs; and using infusion pumps, drips, and IV monitoring.
- Labor and Delivery management: amnioinfusion; assisting with high-risk delivery; assisting with vaginal delivery; circulating for C-section; forceps/vacuum extraction; hemorrhage/shock; recovering C-section patients; and sterile vaginal examination.
- Work settings: antepartum; a setting with more than 300 births per month; high-risk antepartum; Labor and Delivery; LDRP; and mother/baby.
- Medication administration: anticoagulation therapy; antihypertensives; antiseizure medications; insulin drips; magnesium sulfate therapy; Pitocin/oxytocin; prostaglandins; and terbutaline.
- Neonatal delivery-room care: APGAR scores; Baby Nurse or “Baby Catcher” duties; collecting cord samples; ID/security banding; and radiant warmers/thermoregulation.
- Antepartum care and procedures: assisting with amniocentesis; assisting with sterile speculum examination for effacement, dilation, station, and presentation; NST/non-stress tests; OCT/oxytocin challenge tests; reflex checks, edema assessment, and clonus; sterile vaginal examination; triage of obstetrical patients; and use of EFM/external fetal heart monitoring.
- Newborn care: assisting with circumcision and assessing the site post-operatively; car seat education; cord care; discharge teaching to parents; infant identification; metabolic screening; neonatal abstinence syndrome care; newborn assessment; newborn hypoglycemia care; phototherapy; teaching circumcision care to parents; and thermoregulation.
- Postpartum care and procedures: Baby-Friendly protocols; breastfeeding and lactation support; Foley catheter insertion and management; fundus, lochia, and perineum care; and wound assessment and care.
- Surgical procedures: cervical cerclage and D&C.
- Postpartum care involving cesarean section, couplet care, multiple births, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and vaginal delivery.
- Pain management: epidural anesthesia; general anesthesia; IV conscious sedation; nitrous oxide; pain assessment and management; and PCA/IV patient-controlled analgesia.
- Cardiac monitoring and emergency care, including interpretation of dysrhythmias.
- Professional practices: isolation precautions/PPE and vaccine administration.
Compensation & Why Quick2Hire
This assignment pays $72.00-$85.00 per hour with 36 guaranteed hours each week. Quick2Hire is your staffing partner, providing a dedicated recruiter throughout the assignment and reliable weekly pay. Quick2Hire also offers per diem shifts for nurses seeking extra flexibility. Apply through Quick2Hire today for this Eureka, CA Labor and Delivery RN contract.
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Experience
- At least 1 year of Registered Nurse experience.
- Experience caring for patient assignments with a 1:1-3 ratio.
- Travel nursing experience is not required.
