Registered Nurse

Position Details

• Specialty: RN - General, Labor & Delivery
• Location: Eureka, CA
• Employment type: Travel/Contract
• Contract duration: 13 weeks
• Shift: Nights, three 12-hour shifts (18:00–06:30)
• Guaranteed hours: 36 per week
• Start date: December 14, 2026

Responsibilities

Provide nursing care for patients and families across labor, delivery, and postpartum settings. Coordinate care with the clinical team, monitor patient needs, document care, and support safe transitions through the perinatal care journey.

Requirements

• Certifications: ACLS, AWHONN Intermediate, BLS, and NRP.
• Epic charting experience is required.
• Previous travel experience is not required.
• IV therapy and phlebotomy: administration of blood and blood products; drawing venous blood (required); maintaining central lines (CVC/PICC) (required); starting and maintaining IVs; using infusion pumps, drips, and IV monitoring.
• Labor and delivery management: amnioinfusion; assisting with high-risk deliveries and vaginal deliveries; circulating for C-sections; forceps/vacuum extraction (required); hemorrhage/shock (required); recovering C-sections.
• Work settings: antepartum; high-risk antepartum (required); Labor & Delivery; LDRP; Mother/Baby; experience in a setting with more than 300 births per month (required).
• Medication and administration: anticoagulation therapy; antihypertensives; antiseizure medications; insulin drips (required); magnesium sulfate therapy; Pitocin (oxytocin); prostaglandins (required); terbutaline.
• Neonatal care in the delivery room: APGAR scoring; Baby Nurse (“Baby Catcher”); collecting cord samples (required); ID/security banding; radiant warmers and thermoregulation.
• Antepartum care and procedures: assisting with amniocentesis (required); assisting with sterile speculum exams to assess effacement, dilation, station, and presentation; NST (Non-Stress Tests); OCT (Oxytocin Challenge Tests) (required); reflex checks, edema assessment, and clonus; sterile vaginal exams; obstetrical patient triage (required); use of EFM (External Fetal Heart Monitoring).
• Newborn care: assisting with circumcision and assessing the site post-op (required); car seat education; cord care; discharge teaching to parents; infant identification; metabolic screening (required); Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (required); newborn assessment; newborn hypoglycemia; phototherapy; teaching circumcision care to parents (required); thermoregulation.
• Postpartum care and procedures: baby-friendly protocols (required); breastfeeding and lactation support; Foley catheter insertion and management; fundus, lochia, and perineum care; wound assessment and care.
• Surgical cases and procedures: cervical cerclage (required); D&C (required).
• Postpartum care for patients with cesarean sections, couplet care needs, multiple births, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy-induced hypertension, and vaginal deliveries.
• Pain management: epidural anesthesia; general anesthesia (required); IV conscious sedation (required); nitrous oxide; pain assessment and management; use of IV PCA.
• Cardiac monitoring and emergency care: interpretation of dysrhythmias (required).
• Professional topics and skills: isolation precautions/PPE; vaccine administration.

Compensation & Why Quick2Hire

Pay is $72.00–$85.00 per hour. Quick2Hire is your staffing partner, with a dedicated recruiter supporting you throughout the assignment, reliable weekly pay, and per diem shifts available if you want extra flexibility. Apply through Quick2Hire to be considered for this Eureka, CA contract.