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Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner
Director: Andrea Alliston, RN
- Inpatient Level II NICU and transition nursery
- 5 NICU beds and 15 nursery beds
- Specialize in care of patients with prematurity
- 12 hour shifts (6 to 6) with every other weekend off
- Electronic documentation
MOTHER BABY UNIT
Director: Andrea Alliston, RN
- Female patients only
- 5 Labor/Delivery Rooms, one recovery room, three labor observation rooms
- 3 delivery Rooms
- 11 postpartum rooms
- Specialize in care of antepartum patients, vaginal deliveries and C-Sections
- 12 hour shifts (6 to 6) with every other weekend off
- Electronic documentation
- ALOS – 2 to 3 days
Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital
Director: Lucia Champagne, RNC
- Female patients only
- Newly renovated 4 LDR's with state of the art equipment.
- Specialize in care of perinatal patients, vaginal deliveries and C-Sections
- Electronic documentation
- 8 and 12 hour rotating shifts with every other weekend off
- ALOS – varies
NURSERY UNIT
Director: Lucia Champagne, RNC
- Level I nursery
- How many beds/cribs
- Specialize in care of the normal newborn and stabilization of sick neonates for immediate transfer
- Electronic documentation
- 8 and 12 hour rotating shifts with every other weekend off
- ALOS – varies
Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank
- Female patients only
- 15 Labor/Delivery Rooms, 4 triage rooms
- Specialize in care of antepartum patients, vaginal deliveries and C-Sections
- 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off
- Electronic documentation
- ALOS – 2 to 4 days
MOTHER BABY UNIT
Unit Director: Cheri Oser, BSN, RNC
- Female patients only
- 21 private rooms
- Specialize in care of maternal, newborn, and gynecologic surgery patients
- 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off
- Manual documentation
- ALOS – 2 to 4 days
NICU
Director: Cheri Oser, BSN, RNC
- Inpatient Level III NICU
- 16 NICU beds
- Specialize in care of patients with prematurity
- 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off
- Manual documentation
Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans
LABOR AND DELIVERY
- Female patients only
- 6 Labor/Delivery/Recovery Rooms
- 3 Operating Rooms
- 10 antepartum rooms
- Specialize in care of high-risk antepartum patients, vaginal deliveries and C-Sections
- 8 and 12 hour rotating shifts with every other weekend off Electronic documentation
- ALOS – varies
MOTHER/BABY
- Female patients only, inpatient postpartum with transitional nursery
- All private rooms, 20 newborn cribs
- Specialize in couplet care (care of the new mother and baby together)
- 8 and 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off
- Electronic documentation
- ALOS – 2-4 days
NICU
Director: Dawn Ricourard, BSN, RNC
- Inpatient critical care for newborns
- 40 bed unit utilizing pod system
- Specialize in care of patients with prematury, ECMO, and congenital defects
- 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off (less as seniority grows)
- Flow sheet documentation
- ALOS – 30 days
PEDIATRIC ACUTE
Director: Pat Simonson, RNC
- Inpatient care unit for ages newborn to18 years
- 27 private rooms brightly decorated in a home like setting
- Specialize in care of patients with all varieties of medical and surgical pediatric patients
- 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off
- Electronic documentation
- ALOS – 3 days
PICU
Director: Steve Rhodes, RN
- Inpatient critical care for pediatrics
- 14 private rooms designed as a ship sailing on the ocean
- Specialize in care of pediatric patients with neurosurgical procedures, cardiovascular procedures, orthopedic procedures, trauma, infectious diseases, GI, and pulmonology
- Unit also does minor pediatric procedures requiring sedation
- 12 hour shifts
- Flow sheet documentation with some electronic components
- ALOS – 4 days
