OB/GYN RN jobs outside of the hospital?

jlove86 · Sep 9, 2009

I'm really curious about this as well, so I thought I'd bump it.

andeam · Sep 9, 2009

One thing that is always in demand are teachers. Childbirth instructors at hospitals around Dallas anyway are usually RNs, there are also RNs that work in county health departments and do case work for high risk and teen pregnancies and do "home health" type of work to make sure the mother has everything they need to make it through pregnancy and delivery safely.

Hope this helps :)

ONCRN84 · Sep 9, 2009

I did maternal child public health nursing for a while. I did home visits with low-income pregnant women and then after the baby was born up until 1 year (longer if needed). I did a lot of education, community referrals, education, did I mention education? It's great if you like patient education.

Since you are working with a low-income/at risk population, your clients tend to live in not so safe neighborhoods. I got out of it because there was a gang shooting at one of my client's houses 20 minutes after I left. It freaked me out. Also in our county we used our own vehicles and I didn't want my car associated with some of the houses I was in.

Edit: I MISS my families though. Most of them anyway. That was the hardest part about leaving that job. The families and my coworkers.

DoGoodThenGo · Sep 9, 2009

Here in NYC there are a good number of nurses with OB and even NICU backgrounds, doing private duty as infant nurses to newborns. Indeed met a former NICU nurse from North Carolina last year out with her charge and we had a nice chat. Not happy with her job in NC, and missing her daughter who moved to NYC, the daughter actually encouraged and put the nurse in touch with one of the larger and better known agencies in Manhattan for that sort of thing. Once NYS licensure, background checks and other things required by the agency were completed she had work the next day and works as little or much as she chooses. The nurse now has her own "business" set up and also works upon referrals.

Live near Lenox Hill Hospital in one of the more wealthy areas of Manahttan, so it is a common sight to see infant nurses, though from what one understands work can be had in a all parts of the city. Usually the families range from "comfortable" to well let us just say "wealthy" *LOL* Though many families will some how chip in to arrange hiring an infant nurse for at least the first week or so after delivery, and IIRC some new mothers told me their insurance covered all or part of the cost.

From what the nurse from NC told me, her work (aside from caring for the infant), sounds rather exciting. Normally a car is sent to pick her up when the client goes into labour and takes her to the hospital. After birth the child is handed over to the nurse (while still in hospital), and she takes charge until dissmissed. While she does live in, the nurse told me she always has her own living accomodations and does NOT perform nanny duties for any other children in the household, she cares for the infant, period. If the family travels (St.Barts, Europe, Russia, etc), she goes along as well. Many of the baby nurses one has seen do wear whites, others simply what one would see on any OB floor (coloured top with perhaps white or light blue pants), though think this may be status thing for the family. Maybe they would pay extra if one work a cap and starched whites whilst out pushing the baby in it's pram?

DoGoodThenGo · Sep 9, 2009

You might try also looking into lying-in hospitals, though there aren't many. NYC's only had the one which was run by St.Vincent's of Manhattan, and it closed a few years ago due to malpractice issues (cost of insurance).