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Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery

📍 Santa Maria, california · · · 36 hrs/week

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Candidate pay rate:$84/hr ≈ $3,024/wk before stipends Quick apply or call (408) 441-9200

Job description

Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery

Start Date: 09-28-2026

End Date: 12-28-2026

Contract Type: Travel Contract

Hours per Week: 36

Candidate Pay Rate: $84.00 per hour

About United Health Care Staffing

At United Health Care Staffing (UHC Staffing), we believe healthcare staffing should be more than just finding a job. We are here to connect amazing professionals with opportunities that make their careers exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. With us, you're not just signing up for a contract you are joining a team that's got your back, answers your calls, and maybe even cracks a joke or two to brighten your day. Think of us as the travel buddy who handles the logistics while you focus on what you do best helping people heal.

Education

  • Trauma Level: 3
  • Charting System: Cerner
  • Unit Notes: - Unit: L&D/PP
  • # L&D Beds: 14 beds
  • # triage beds: 6 triage beds, 2 OR suites
  • # Postpartum beds: 28 beds
  • # births per day, per year: 250 births per month
  • Certs: ACLS, BLS, Fetal HM - AWOHNN (adv) for L&D, BLS, NRP required for Postpartum
  • Ratios: 2 to 1 laboring, follow AWOHNN guidelines, 1 to 4 couplet care
  • FHM System: Fetal Link
  • EMR: Cerner
  • Charge Nurse: yes - they try not to take a patient assignment
  • Nurse Aides/OB tech: OB tech - yes, day and night shift
  • Weekend Requirement: every other
  • Call Requirement: no - may have to be on standby
  • Holidays: they will work them in with perm staff rotation
  • Scrub Color: Nurses - navy for PP, ob tech and L&D nurses - seal blue (provided)
  • Tele: Phillips
  • Vents: No
  • OB/Neonataologist in house: No but available if needed
  • IV Team: No
  • RT 24/7: Yes
  • Pharmacy 24/7: Yes
  • Shifts: 12 hr shifts - 7a-7p or 7p-7a
  • C-section experience required: Will be required to circulate for c-sections. Scrubbing experience is preferred.
  • Floating: They will have to float to postpartum, PP will NOT have to float to L&D
  • Floor specific orientation: 3 shifts
  • Common diagnosis / Types of patients: any gestational age, antepartum, high risk deliveries, substance abuse, pre-eclampsia, insulin dependent diabetics
  • Years of Experience: 2
  • Shift Notes: 7p-7a, EOW first to float
  • Specialty: Labor and Delivery
  • Start Date: 2026-09-28
  • End Date: 2026-12-28
  • Created Date: 2026-08-26
  • Required Hours/Week: 36
  • Start Time: 07:00
  • End Time: 19:00
  • Positions: 1
  • Short Description: RN (Registered Nurse)
  • Contract Type:

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Ready to start your next adventure as a Registered Nurse - Labor and Delivery? Let's get you moving forward!

Send your resume to [email protected] or call us at 408-441-9200 today.

Why UHCS

Weekly or bi-weekly pay, medical/dental/vision, a SIMPLE IRA with employer contribution, tests paid on qualifying assignments with payroll deduction available, and one recruiter who stays with you for the whole assignment — reachable after hours. Every placement is credentialed to Joint Commission standards, so your packet is accepted the first time.