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Looking for Newly Graduated Nurses – Labor & Delivery OR

UNC Health Rex | Raleigh, NC

🩺💙Join a nationally recognized health system of 40,000+ teammates united by one mission: improving the health and well-being of the communities we serve.


🎉 Big Incentives. Bright Future.

This position qualifies for the UNC Rex Incentive Program, offering:
💰Up to $25,000 in tuition loan forgiveness 
📦Up to $5,000 in relocation assistance(based on location)


👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ Calling All Newly Graduated Nurses!

We are seeking newly graduated Registered Nurses who:

  • Have less than 12 months of nursing experience

  • Are licensed (or will be licensed soon)as an RN in North Carolina

✨ If you’re ready to grow your confidence, sharpen your skills, and make a real impact—this program is for you.


🚀 UNC Health Rex Nurse Residency Program

Our12-month Nurse Residency Program is thoughtfully designed to bridge the gap from nursing school to professional practice—so you never feel like you’re doing it alone.

What makes our program stand out:
✔️ Hands-on, unit-based clinical orientation
✔️ Interactive classroom sessions tailored to your specialty
✔️ Ongoing professional development and continuing education
✔️ Group evidence-based practice project
✔️ Regular milestones, mentorship, and check-ins with leadership

🎯Our goals:

  • Support your transition from novice to confident, competent nurse

  • Promote evidence-based practice for the best patient outcomes

  • Develop leadership skills at the bedside


💖 Why Nurses Choose UNC Rex

We don’t just say we’re a great place to work—we’re nationally recognized for it:

🏆 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity –Newsweek
🏆 America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women –Newsweek
🏆 WRAL Voters’ Choice Award –Best Hospital
🏆 Healthgrades Top 100 Hospital for Stroke Care
🏆 One of the World’s Best HospitalsNewsweek


👶 Unit Spotlight: Labor & Delivery OR

At UNC Rex Labor & Delivery OR, you’ll care for patients throughout labor, delivery, and postpartum recovery—including high-risk antepartum and postpartum patients.

Unit features include:

  • 3-bay OB Emergency Department (OBED)

  • 20 Labor & Delivery rooms

  • 3 Operating Rooms

  • 3 PACU bays

You’ll circulate C-sections and collaborate closely with:
👩‍⚕️ Physicians
🧑‍⚕️ OB Hospitalists
👶 Certified Nurse Midwives
🤝 Nursing Assistants & Surgical Technologists

Nurse-to-patient ratio:1:1 – 1:2


✅ Qualifications

✔️ Graduation from an accredited school of professional nursing
✔️ RN licensure in North Carolina by first day of clinical care
✔️ BLS (Basic Life Support) for Healthcare Providers certification


🩺 Position Summary

As a Clinical Nurse, you’ll provide compassionate, evidence-based care while coordinating and delivering patient-centered nursing services. You’ll report to the Nurse Manager or Director and play a vital role in delivering exceptional care in a hospital setting.


🌈 Start Strong. Grow Confident. Belong Here.

Apply today and begin your nursing career at UNC Health Rex—where support, excellence, and opportunity come together.

Responsibilities:
1. Education - Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self. Attends education programs based on identified learning needs. With assistance, uses patient education materials relevant to patient population. Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers. Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
2. Evaluation of Care - Identifies expected patient outcomes. Seeks guidance as needed in revision of plan of care. Participates in discussion with members of the interdisciplinary team in evaluation of patient care. Communicates relevant information to promote continuity of care.
3. Implementation - Demonstrates competence in care of patients with complex problems, including population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care. Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan. Utilizes healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures in delivery of care. Organizes and prioritizes care according to patient/family needs. Consults with appropriate resources in a timely fashion regarding patients with complex care issues, unusual teaching needs and/or those at high risk for discharge planning.
4. Leadership - With assistance, develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations. Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor. Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration. Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities. Effectively uses communication systems. Participates in promoting cost-effective care. Gives feedback to co-workers. Is aware of public policy and regulatory guidelines affecting the health care environment. Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all
5. Patient Assessment - Recognizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care. Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial, education and safety needs. Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication to others. Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families. Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
6. Planning - Collaborates with patient/family to prepare or update the plan of care. Makes use of available multidisciplinary resources in planning care. Begins to use full range of communication as a means to convey planning. Identifies and addresses cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care. Demonstrates ability to prioritize tasks for patients with complex problems.
7. Research - Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice. Brings ideas and questions to the staff at large for assessment of applicability.


Other Information

Other information:
Education Requirements:
● Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
● If hired after January 6, 2014, must be enrolled within four years of employment, and obtain a Bachelor's degree with a major in Nursing or a Master's degree with a major in Nursing within seven years of employment date.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
● Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina by the day of clinical care.
● Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification
Professional Experience Requirements:
● No prior experience required.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:


Job Details

Legal Employer: NCHEALTH

Entity: UNC REX Healthcare

Organization Unit: Rex Labor Delivery Operating Room

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 36.00

Salary Range: starting at $32.55 

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Onsite

Work Schedule: Variable

Location of Job: US:NC:Raleigh

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: No


This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Heath Care System. This is not a State employed position.


Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.

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