Job Description
Job Title: RN Float Pool
Job Specialty: MedSurg/Tele
Job Duration: 13 Weeks
Shift: 12-Hour Night Shift
Guaranteed Hours: 36 Hours per Week
Experience: One year experience preferred
License: State RN license from a participating state in the NLC
Certifications:
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
- NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification
Must-Have:
- Associate Degree in Nursing required
- Bachelor Degree in Nursing preferred
Job Description:
- Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and the patient/family.
- Identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
- Promote optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient using the nursing process in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act.
- Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values.
- Assess patients' physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data.
- Evaluate patients' responses and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes.
- Develop and implement patient plans of care and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate competency in a variety of therapeutic/diagnostic interventions, including but not limited to IVs, incision/wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections.
- Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient.
- Provide patient/family education through assessment of patient/family learning readiness, needs, and ability.
- Provide teaching and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
- Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in providing compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for the patient’s preferences, values, and needs.
- Provide relationship-based care by understanding what is most important to the individual and actively engaging them in all aspects of care.
- Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
- Delegate to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Effectively use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Serve as a professional role model for staff, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing processes.
- Manage resources and patient flow by matching nursing competencies with individualized patient and unit needs.
- Use standards of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice.
- Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care.
- Precept or mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
- Seek out learning opportunities and continuing education experiences to reflect current practice and maintain skills and competence.
- Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Take action to achieve goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrate a commitment to the organization through ongoing participation in hospital and unit-based meetings.
- Understand the value of measurement and the importance of continuous quality improvement data.
- Use quality measures to improve performance and accountability for patient outcomes, patient experiences, and the safe delivery of care.
- Participate in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research activities.
- Use current healthcare research findings and other evidence to expand clinical knowledge, enhance role performance, and increase knowledge of professional issues.
Note: Floating may be required to any location within sixty (60) miles of the original assignment location. Float assignments may include duties outside of original job requirements in accordance with policy.