Job Description
Job Title: Registered Nurse (RN)
Job Specialty: Float Pool ICU CCU
Job Duration: 13 weeks
Shift: 12-hour night shift
Guaranteed Hours: 36 hours per week
Experience: One year of experience preferred
License: State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) required
Certifications:
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Required
- Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - Required
- NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification - Required
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) - Required for specific locations
Must-Have:
- Associate Degree in Nursing is required
- Bachelor Degree in Nursing is preferred
Job Description:
- Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and the patient/family to 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 and 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 care plans and observe outcomes in accordance with nursing standards and in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.
- Demonstrate competency in various therapeutic and 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 readiness, needs, and ability to learn. Evaluate the effectiveness of teaching.
- Provide relationship-based care, engaging the patient or designee as a full partner in compassionate and coordinated care based on respect for preferences, values, and needs.
- Deliver care with respect for cultural differences and diversity of human experience.
- Delegate tasks to non-RN personnel following State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies effectively to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Act as a professional role model for all 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 and mentor new staff or nursing students as needed.
- Pursue learning opportunities and continuing education.
- Seek experiences reflecting current practice to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluate personal integrity and practice in relation to professional standards, guidelines, statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Take action to achieve goals identified during evaluation processes.
- 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, experiences, and safe care delivery.
- 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 professional knowledge.
Please note: Floating may be required to any location within sixty (60) miles of the original assignment location or identified float zone. Float assignments may include duties outside of the original assignment job requirements according to policy.