Labor and delivery, mother/baby, postpartum and pediatrics.
Laboring patients through delivery, including high-risk antepartum and emergency cesarean.
Postpartum patients and their newborns as a couplet, through discharge teaching.
Recovering obstetric patients, including complications, hemorrhage risk and preeclampsia management.
High-risk pregnant patients admitted before delivery — preterm labor, preeclampsia, placental issues.
Healthy newborns from delivery through discharge — assessment, screening, feeding support.
Hospitalized infants through adolescents across medical and surgical diagnoses.
Undifferentiated pediatric patients across all acuities in a dedicated or mixed emergency department.
They look interchangeable on a job description and are not. The single most common cause of a failed placement in this group is a req that names the unit but not the acuity, the ratio or the equipment — so a candidate arrives qualified on paper and unable to hold the assignment.
| Unit | Typical ratio |
|---|---|
| Labor & Delivery | Typically 1:1 in active labor |
| Mother/Baby | Typically 1:3 to 1:4 couplets |
| Postpartum | Typically 1:4 to 1:5 |
| Antepartum | Typically 1:3 to 1:4 |
| Well Baby Nursery | Typically 1:4 to 1:6 |
| Pediatrics | Typically 1:3 to 1:4 |
| Pediatric ED | Varies by acuity |
We ask for patient population, acuity, ratio, equipment and shift pattern at intake, plus the exact credential the unit requires rather than the job title. If you are not sure what to specify, describe the patients and we will work backwards to the credential.
Registered nursing is covered by the Nurse Licensure Compact in most of the country, so a multistate license lets a nurse work across member states without a new application. Thirteen jurisdictions sit outside it — Alaska, California, DC, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands — and in those markets every out-of-state nurse needs a single-state license first. Those are the markets where reqs stay open longest.
Every candidate is spoken to before submittal, with licensure, certifications and unit-specific competency confirmed up front. Rates sit inside the ranges on our published cost breakdown.
Tell us the unit, the ratio and the start date.