Qualifications/Skills of a Postpartum Nurse

Are you interested in caring for both newborns and new mothers? Then a career as a postpartum nurse could be an excellent fit. It’s a wonderful opportunity, providing physical and emotional care for new mothers and their babies. 

Get started as a postpartum nurse

You must first meet a few basic qualifications to work in postpartum. The steps to becoming a postpartum nurse will include:

• --Getting a nursing degree from an accredited nursing school
• --Passing the NCLEX examination
• --Obtaining your RN license
• --Gaining clinical experience.

Once you have met those steps, you can gain some clinical experience and then hopefully launch your career as a postpartum nurse. 

A note about specific hospital requirements: some hospitals will require you to have experience in the postpartum unit, while other facilities may accept new nursing graduates and provide training or a mentorship program where you shadow another more experienced postpartum nurse. Additionally, a growing number of hospitals now require nurses to have a BSN, so be sure to verify whether or not you need a bachelor’s degree in nursing to qualify for employment.

The National Certification Corporation (NCC) currently offers continuing education and certification for Postpartum nurses that cover a variety of topics such as inpatient obstetric nursing, electronic fetal monitoring, and maternal newborn nursing. 

For example, you could pursue the NCC Certification in Maternal Newborn Nursing (RNC-MNN). And when you’re looking for some continuing education hours, check out the online CE modules that you can complete on your own time, which is a major advantage for all busy nurses but especially for busy travel nurses!

Read More About Postpartum Travel Nursing Salary and Requirements from the link below.

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