Travel Post Partum/Mom Baby RN - $1,576 per week

Care Career is seeking a travel nurse RN Post Partum for a travel nursing job in Irving, Texas.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: Post Partum
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: 11/09/2026
• Duration: 13 weeks
• 36 hours per week
• Shift: 12 hours, nights
• Employment Type: Travel

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive nursing care to postpartum patients during recovery following childbirth.
• Assess maternal vital signs, uterine tone, fundal height, lochia, pain, and overall recovery.
• Monitor patients for postpartum complications, including hemorrhage, infection, hypertension, and thromboembolic events.
• Provide nursing care for high-risk antepartum patients, monitoring maternal and fetal status and promptly reporting abnormal findings.
• Assess newborns for vital signs, temperature stability, feeding tolerance, and signs of distress.
• Provide routine newborn nursery care, including feeding support, hygiene, and monitoring of intake and output.
• Monitor newborns for complications such as hypoglycemia, jaundice, respiratory distress, and temperature instability.
• Support newborn safety practices, including identification verification and safe sleep education.
• Assist mothers with breastfeeding, lactation support, and newborn care education.
• Administer prescribed medications and treatments to maternal and newborn patients according to orders and facility protocols.
• Establish and maintain IV access and provide IV therapy as ordered.
• Recognize emergencies involving mothers or newborns and initiate appropriate interventions.
• Educate patients and families about postpartum recovery, warning signs, newborn care, and follow-up appointments.
• Document assessments, interventions, medications, and patient responses accurately in Meditech.
• Collaborate with obstetric providers, pediatric providers, lactation consultants, and other interdisciplinary team members.
• Follow infection prevention procedures, patient safety standards, and hospital policies.
• Float to other areas as needed, within competency and facility guidelines.

Requirements Active Texas RN license required. Temporary licenses are not accepted. Minimum of 2 years of hospital nursing experience. Current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification. Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification. Previous newborn nursery experience. Ability to care for high-risk antepartum patients and postpartum recovery patients. Experience in antepartum care and newborn nursery care. Strong maternal and newborn assessment skills. Ability to recognize and respond to maternal and neonatal complications. Strong communication, critical-thinking, and patient education skills. Meditech experience preferred. Advanced fetal monitoring (Advanced FM) experience preferred. RNC-OB certification preferred but not required. Willingness to float as needed according to facility policy.

About Care Career

Benefits

• Referral bonus
• Weekly pay
• Medical benefits
• Continuing Education
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits