Registered Nurse - Women's Services / Labor and Delivery
In this role, you will provide hands-on support in a fast-paced care environment where every shift makes a direct impact on patients and families.
Posted Sep 25 · New grads welcomed
- Shift and hours
- 12-hour shifts (7p-7a) · Night Shift (7p-7a) · Night Shift Schedule: Part-Time, 30 hours per week, Night Shift (7p-7a), Every 3rd Weekend Rotation Work Shift: Night Shift (United States of America)30 hours a week
- Unit and setting
- Labor and Delivery · Hospital Determines decisions and actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns in an ethical manner and guided by a sound framework for ethical decision-making.
- License
- RN license Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
- Term
- Permanent Schedule: Part-Time, 30 hours per week, Night Shift (7p-7a), Every 3rd Weekend RotationPart-Time
Do you qualify?
- New grads
- Welcomed No experience required
- License
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services Check your license
- License
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State Check your license
- Certification
- BLS HCP through AHA Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Certification
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Certification
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy Pediatrics (AAP)
- Certification
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Certification
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Education
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
Your six-month RN application plan
Start about six months before graduation. Some programs open earlier; use each employer’s application dates.
6 months before
Shortlist units
Check application windows. Gather clinical experience, references and your expected graduation date.
Find residencies →4–6 months before
Apply as windows open
Apply before graduation when the program allows it. Keep the cohort date and license deadline with each application.
Explore new grad jobs →2–3 months before
Meet the unit manager
Ask about overtime, a shadow shift, preceptor continuity and the schedule after orientation.
Prepare your questions →Around graduation
Confirm your start
Coordinate NCLEX, the required license and your start date. Get relocation and repayment terms in writing.
Plan your license →
Why start this early?
Advocate describes a 6–9 month application runway for several regional RN programs. These milestones are a planning guide, not deadlines for every employer. See program calendars.
What it pays
Benefits
- BenefitsOne week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE)Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- BenefitsDailyPay voluntary benefit offering instant access to earned, unpaid base pay before payday
- BenefitsUpfront tuition coverage through FlexPath FundedUpfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
- Paid Parental Leave
- Upfront Tuition Coverage
- Flexible Payment Options
The role and schedule
- Patients
- Determines decisions and actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns in an ethical manner and guided by a sound framework for ethical decision-making. Determines decisions and actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns in an ethical manner and guided by a sound framework for ethical decision-making.
- Unit
- Birth Suites Department: 3700000007 Birth Suites
- Day to day
- Collect and analyze health data to implement individualized care plans for women and newborns
- Day to day
- Coordinate care delivery and employ health teaching strategies
- Day to day
- Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes Evaluates the progress toward attainment of expected outcomes in the context of woman, newborn, and family-centered care.
- Day to day
- Determine ethical decisions and actions congruent with diversity and inclusion principles
- Day to day
- Communicate and collaborate with women, families, and healthcare providers Communicates and collaborates with women, families, health care providers, and the community in providing safe and holistic care.
- Day to day
- Serve as a role model, change agent, consultant, and mentor
- Day to day
- Generate or integrate evidence and implement measures to improve quality of practice
- Day to day
- Evaluate nursing practice and participate in peer evaluation
- Day to day
- Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner when planning and delivering care to women, newborns, and families.
- Day to day
- Apply evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge based on clinical and age-specific needs
- Weekends
- Every 3rd Weekend Rotation Schedule: Part-Time, 30 hours per week, Night Shift (7p-7a), Every 3rd Weekend Rotation
- Hours
- 30 Scheduled Weekly Hours: 30
The workplaceFrom Medicare Care Compare, Sep 2026.
- Hospital
- SSM Health ST MARY'S Hospital - Madison
- Address
- 700 SOUTH PARK ST, MADISON, WI, 53715
- CMS rating
- 4 of 5 stars
- Beds
- 354
About SSM HEALTH ST MARY'S HOSPITAL - MADISON
Worth asking
- Can you walk me through base pay range and differentials?
- What should I expect for holiday and call?
More questions to askFewer questions
- What orientation, preceptor time, and ongoing unit support are included?
- How are patient load, floating, and staffing support handled day to day?
Your fit
On your path
Labor & Delivery has an opening for new graduates. This employer welcomes new graduates for this role. See the posting’s qualifications and orientation details.
Original listing
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0007 St. Mary's Hospital - Madison Job Id R201651 Night Shift
It's more than a career, it's a calling WI-SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Madison
Worker Type
Regular
Job Highlights
Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you'll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.
In this role, you will provide hands-on support in a fast-paced care environment where every shift makes a direct impact on patients and families. Your attention to detail, compassion, and ability to work closely with clinical teams will help create a safer, smoother care experience. If you enjoy interacting with patients and want to grow in a collaborative care setting, this role is perfect for you.
Department: Labor and Delivery
Schedule
Part-Time, 30 hours per week, Night Shift (7p-7a), Every 3rd Weekend Rotation
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Job Summary
Manages women's services activities, workflow and nursing resources.
Job Responsibilities and Requirements
Primary responsibilities
- Collects and analyzes pertinent health data to develop and implement an individualized plan of care that includes interventions and alternatives to attain expected, measurable outcomes for women and newborns in the context of woman, newborn, and family-centered care.
- Coordinates care delivery to promote woman-, newborn-, and family-centered care within their scope of practice. Employs health teaching strategies that promote, maintain, or restore health within the context of a safe environment for woman, newborn, family-centered care.
- Evaluates the progress toward attainment of expected outcomes in the context of woman, newborn, and family-centered care.
- Determines decisions and actions on behalf of women, fetuses, and newborns in an ethical manner and guided by a sound framework for ethical decision-making. Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for women, newborns, and families.
- Communicates and collaborates with women, families, health care providers, and the community in providing safe and holistic care.
- Serves as a role model, change agent, consultant, and mentor to women, families, healthcare consumers, and other health care professionals. Acquires and maintains knowledge and competencies that reflect current evidence-based nursing practice for women, newborns, and families.
- Generates or integrates evidence to identify, examine, validate, and evaluate interprofessional knowledge, theories, and varied approaches in providing care to women and newborns. Practices, evaluates, and, if indicated, implements new measures to improve the quality of nursing practice for women and newborns.
- Evaluates their own nursing practice and participates in the evaluation of others in relation to current evidence-based consumer care information, professional practice standards and guidelines, statutes, rules and regulations. Considers resource factors related to safety, effectiveness, technological advances, and fiscal responsibility when planning and delivering care to women and newborns.
- Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner when planning and delivering care to women, newborns, and families.
- Applies the existing body of evidence-based practice and scientific knowledge in health care to women's services nursing practice, ensuring that nursing care is delivered based on patient’s age-specific needs and clinical needs as described in the departments Scope of Service.
- Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
- Graduate of accredited school of nursing or education equivalency for licensing
Experience
- No experience required
Physical requirements
- Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
- Constant standing and walking.
- Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
- Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
- Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
- Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
- Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
- Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
- Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
- Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
- Occasional driving.
- Rare crawling and running.
Required professional license and/or certifications
State of Work Location: Illinois
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Professional Nurse (RN) - Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR)
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy Pediatrics (AAP)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
State of Work Location: Missouri
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Missouri Division of Professional Registration
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy Pediatrics (AAP)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
State of Work Location: Oklahoma
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN)
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy Pediatrics (AAP)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
State of Work Location: Wisconsin
- Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- And
- Registered Nurse (RN) Issued by Compact State
- Or
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services
- And
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) - American Academy Pediatrics (AAP)
- Or
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - American Heart Association (AHA)
- Or
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Essentials - American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Work Shift
Night Shift (United States of America)
Job Type
Employee
Department
3700000007 Birth Suites
Scheduled Weekly Hours
30
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Benefits
SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.
- Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE).
- Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.
- Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.
What's around it?
Madison, WIFrom Census ACS 2024.
Living costs about 3% below the US average
- Median rent
- $1,413/mo
- Household income
- $78,050/yr, all local households, not nurse pay