Where You’ll Work
Founded in 1923, Dignity Health - St. Mary Medical Center is a 389-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Long Beach, California. Serving over 80,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, heart care, and orthopedics. Additionally, St. Mary Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center and received a Healthgrades 5-Star Award for Heart Failure in 2026.
One Community. One Mission. One California
Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes. To be successful in this role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Our new birth center offers next-generation comfort and technologically equipped care to support growing families with optimized experiences and outcomes. We have modernized our maternity services, including labor and delivery, antepartum, postpartum, and our 24-bed Level III NICU to create spacious, nurturing environments for the 2,400 deliveries and 500 NICU admissions we handle each year.
- 28 private postpartum rooms—to provide an enhanced level of patient comfort
- 24 private NICU rooms—offering families more space to bond with their newest arrival
- 3 surgery suites—with state-of-the-art equipment and technology
- Pregnancy care center—with private triage, antepartum, and birthing rooms
- Children’s play area—to soothe anxious families in the waiting room
- Private spaces—to meet and consult with families
Your friends say you have the best nursing job. And yes helping bring new babies into the world is a life-changing event not just for your patients and their families but for you too. Each time you help a new mother bond with her child or a new father cradle the head just so you can't help but smile. Your calm demeanor during labor your expertise during complications and your ability to juggle multiple tasks on a busy day all come into play. Today's patient is expecting triplets and you're ready.
Your job is a daily reminder of how important family and personal time are in life. And at heart Dignity Health celebrates those times of wellness and happiness by offering all employees a Total Rewards program that encourages balance. Your Total Rewards benefits helps you lead a balanced life where your health finances continuing education and growth are all cared for. So your schedule is very flexible. Your coworkers are hard working diverse and supportive. And you feel looked after at work and at home.
If you are committed to social justice health equity and prepared to deliver care in new innovative ways you belong with us.
Learn more about the Grand Tower
We are not currently accepting new graduate or new to speciality applications. Our next posting period will be July 1, 2026 for an October 16, 2026 start date. Positions can be found under National Resident RN (<12 months experience as an RN) or RN Transition/Fellowship (>12 months experience as an RN.
Job Requirements
Required
- 1-2 years of Labor & Delivery experience
- Current State of California RN license
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification - American Heart Association
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) certification - American Heart Association
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification
- Advanced Fetal Monitoring certification