Registered Nurse

Position Details

• Role: Registered Nurse - General
• Unit: Labor and Delivery RN
• Location: Eureka, CA
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Shift: Night, 3x12 hours, 18:00-06:00
• Contract duration: 13 weeks
• Guaranteed hours: 36 per week
• Start date: October 19, 2026
• Charting system: Epic

Responsibilities

Provide safe, compassionate nursing care throughout the antepartum, intrapartum, delivery, postpartum, and newborn periods. Support patients and families through routine and high-risk obstetric care, coordinate with the care team, document accurately, and respond to changing maternal and newborn conditions.

Requirements

Certifications: ACLS, AWHONN Intermediate, BLS, and NRP.

• Patient ratio experience of 1:1-3.
• Epic charting experience.
• IV therapy and phlebotomy, including administration of blood and blood products, drawing venous blood, maintaining central lines (CVC/PICC), starting and maintaining IVs, and using infusion pumps, drips, and IV monitoring.
• Labor and delivery management, including amnioinfusion; assisting with high-risk and vaginal deliveries; circulating for C-sections; forceps/vacuum extraction; hemorrhage/shock response; C-section recovery; and sterile vaginal exams.
• Experience in antepartum, high-risk antepartum, Labor and Delivery, LDRP, and Mother/Baby settings, including settings with more than 300 births per month.
• Medication administration involving anticoagulation therapy, antihypertensives, antiseizure medications, insulin drips, magnesium sulfate therapy, Pitocin (oxytocin), prostaglandins, and terbutaline.
• Neonatal care in the delivery room, including APGAR scores, Baby Nurse responsibilities, collecting cord samples, ID/security banding, radiant warmers, and thermoregulation.
• Antepartum care and procedures, including assisting with amniocentesis; assisting with sterile speculum exams for effacement, dilation, station, and presentation; NSTs; OCTs; reflex checks, edema assessment, and clonus checks; sterile vaginal exams; triage of obstetrical patients; and use of EFM (External Fetal Heart Monitoring).
• Newborn care, including assisting with circumcision and assessing the site post-operatively; car seat education; cord care; discharge teaching for parents; infant identification; metabolic screening; neonatal abstinence syndrome care; newborn assessments; newborn hypoglycemia care; phototherapy; teaching circumcision care to parents; and thermoregulation.
• Postpartum care and procedures, including Baby Friendly protocols, breastfeeding and lactation support, Foley catheter insertion and management, fundus/lochia/perineum care, and wound assessment and care.
• Surgical procedures, including cervical cerclage and D&C.
• Postpartum care for patients with cesarean section, including couplet care, multiple births, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and vaginal delivery.
• Pain management involving epidural anesthesia, general anesthesia, IV conscious sedation, nitrous oxide, pain assessment and management, and use of IV PCA.
• Cardiac monitoring and emergency care, including interpretation of dysrhythmias.
• Professional practice skills, including isolation precautions/PPE and vaccine administration.

Compensation & Why Quick2Hire

This contract 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 clinicians seeking extra flexibility. Apply through Quick2Hire to be considered for this Eureka, CA opportunity.