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Leadership Team:

Nurse Director:

  • Emma Mack

Clinical Educator

Collaborative Practice with Pediatrician & Obstetrics

Clinical Nursing:

  • Clinical Coordinators
  • Clinical Ladder: CN I – CN IV

Support Staffing:

  • Unit Secretaries
  • Patient Care Assistants
  • Surgical Techs:
    • Monday thru Friday days/evenings/nights
    • On call weekends and holidays.
  • Care Management

Maternity

(Labor and Delivery, 3 main)

The UPMC Hamot Maternity Unit, which includes a 10-bed Labor and Delivery Unit and an 18-bed Post-Partum Unit, is founded on a family-centered care model to ensure optimal bonding and educational opportunities for our families. The unit averages 900-1,200 births per year.

In the Post-Partum Unit, nurses provide couplet care to mothers and babies to promote bonding and to encourage a smooth transition from hospital to home. The transition nursery adjoins the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to ensure optimal safety for newborns. Certifications include NCC, NRP and ACLS.

Nurses in the Labor and Delivery Unit care for obstetrics patients with medical, surgical, endocrine-related problems or pregnancy trauma. The unit is equipped with an operating room and recovery room to manage caesarian sections and emergencies, and also has six LDRs and four additional antepartum rooms to care for high-risk or acutely ill patients.

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Level of Care:

  • Types of patients: Maternity and newborns
  • Number of beds on unit:
    • Labor & Delivery
    • Labor Delivery Room’s – 6
    • Antepartum – 3
    • NST – 1 stress test capabilities
    • Maternity
    • Postpartum – 13 rooms
  • Average daily census:
    • Labor & Delivery – 6
    • Postpartum – 8
  • Nurse/Patient Ratio:
    • 1:3-4 couplets post-partum
    • 1:2 Labor & Delivery

Specialized Unit Technology:

  • Equipment: OB TraceVue computer system, Medication Administration Check System, Accudose
  • Monitors: FHM (Labor & Delivery),heaters-newborns
  • Labor & Delivery O.R. suite on unit

Advanced ‘Intranet’ Resources:

  • Nursing Policy and Procedures
  • Mandatory Education Self-Learning Tools
  • Physicians Orders-standardize order sets for CIS/vaginal deliveries/newborn administration
  • Micromedex
  • Material Safety Data Sheet
  • Discharge Instructions
  • Pharmacy Resources
  • Human Recourses information
  • Peer Evaluations

Orientation:

  • 3 Main 6-8 week orientation
  • Labor & Delivery 6-months orientation
  • Designate preceptor
  • Shadowing in specialty areas
  • Cross training to all Maternity available

Scheduling Options:

  • 4, 8, 10, and 12-hour shifts

Educational Opportunities:

  • Mandatory Madness
  • Morbidity & Mortality Rounds
  • Lunch and Learns
  • Critical Care/Med Surg Course-Encouraged to attend
  • Arrhythmia Courses-L&D
  • ACLS-L&D
  • PALS-Neonatal Resuscitation Program
  • BLS
  • Continuing Education Units
  • Annual Conferences-OB and newborns

Committees:

  • Retention & Recruitment
  • Safety
  • Quality Assurance
  • Peer Review
  • Education
  • Sunshine
  • Nutrition Team
  • Bereavement
  • Service Excellence

Recruitment Opportunities:

  • Student Nurse Intern Program
  • Student Nurses to Patient Care Assistance
  • Nurse Assistant training Program
  • Shadowing experience