Birthing Center

Our birthing center has seven labor and delivery suites, three observation rooms and two operating suites. Our team is composed of RNs, unit secretaries, labor & delivery assistants, and operating room techs. We work closely with each other to meet the challenges each day brings.

Our role as an academic medical center and a community hospital results in an interesting patient mix. We get extremely high-risk patients as well as low-risk patients, and we see a variety of complex medical and social situations.

We are supported by our Unit Educator, an Assistant Nurse Manager and a Nurse Manager. We have an active Practice Council and growth opportunities through our clinical ladder.

For more information call Renee Dall at (802) 847-2819 or (800) 722-9922 or visit www.fletcherallen.org.

Birthing Center

Orientation

RN orientation is a year-long process, with the first 10 to 14 weeks dedicated to hospital and unit orientation. Emphasis is on systems-level nursing orientation and unit-level clinical experience and didactic sessions. The Nurse Educator is very active in your orientation process. During the first 8 to 10 weeks, you will be assigned to work with preceptors on the busy day shifts, mastering organizational skills and become skilled in all aspects of the position, which includes pre-term care, high-risk care, circulating and scrubbing in the OR, and Post Anesthesia Care. You will spend the next 2 to 4 weeks with a preceptor on the shift you were hired into, fine-tuning the skills you have learned. After orientation, you will continue to work on acquiring the unit competencies. Over the course of the year, you will master unit competencies and be orientated into the charge nurse role.