Advantage RN ~ Travel Nurse Staffing Company

LABOR & DELIVERY SKILLS CHECKLIST                                                                                                                        

This profile is for use by Critical Care nurses with more than one year experience in their discipline and specialty. It will not be a determining factor for the Advantage RN program.

Please enter your full legal name as it appears on your Social Security Card.

First Name:  Last Name: email:

Please check the boxes below for each age group for which you have provided age appropriate nursing care:

A.   Newborn/Neonate (birth-30days) F.     Adolescents (12-18 years)
B    Infant (30 days-1 year) G.   Young adults (18-39 years)
C   Toddler (1-3 years) H.   Middle adults (39-64 years)
D   Preschooler (3-5 years)  I.     Older adults (64+)
E.    School age children (5-12 years)    

My experience is primarily in:  (please indicate number of years)

    Labor & Delivery                  year(s)

   LDR                                     year(s)

   LDRP                                  year(s)

 Community Hospital              year(s)

   Teaching Hospital                  year(s)                     #  births/month

Please indicate your level of experience:   A.  Theory, no practice     B.  Intermittent     C.  One- Two Years Current Experience                          D.  Two plus years experience, can function independently

A.  ANTEPARTUM   c.  Norms for perinatal vital signs               ABCD
1.  Assessment   d.  Perform admission risk assessment      ABCD
a.   Assess for comfort               ABCD e.  Presence of clonus                                ABCD
b.  Breathing/relaxation techniques          ABCD f.  Progression of labor  
c.  Coaching                                               ABCD (1)  Contraction characteristics          ABCD
d.  Positioning                                               ABCD (2)  Dilation                                             ABCD
2.  Equipment & procedures   (3)  Effacement                                     ABCD
a.  Catheter insertion   (4)  Fetal presentation/position           ABCD
(1)  Foley catheter                                ABCD (5)  Station                                              ABCD
(2)  Straight catheter                            ABCD (6)  Status of membranes                     ABCD
b.  Delivery table set up                              ABCD (7)  Sterile speculum exam                   ABCD
c.  Sonogram   (8)  Vaginal exam                                  ABCD
(1)  Amniotic fluid index                       ABCD g.  Rupture of membranes  
(2)  Assist with sonogram                      ABCD (1)  Fern test                                           ABCD
(3)  Biophysical profile                           ABCD (2)  Nitrazine