Job Description
**Job Title:** Registered Nurse
**Job Specialty:** Float Pool ICU CCU
**Job Duration:** 13 weeks
**Shift:** 12-hour night shift
**Guaranteed Hours:** 36.00 hours per week
**Experience:** One year experience preferred; nursing skills and knowledge specific to specialty
**License:** State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the Nurse Licensure Compact 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 in certain locations
**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 to identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient.
- Promote the optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient through the use of 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 patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, and review of medical records and clinical data.
- Evaluate patient's response 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/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 by assessing readiness, needs, and ability to learn, 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.
- Deliver relationship-based care, respecting cultural differences and the diversity of human experience.
- Delegate tasks to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy.
- Efficiently use time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
- Serve as a professional role model for all staff by demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing practices.
- 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 to maintain skills and competence in clinical practice or role performance.
- Maintain professional records that provide evidence of competency and lifelong learning.
- Evaluate one's own integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards, guidelines, relevant statutes, rules, and regulations.
- Take action to achieve personal goals identified during the evaluation process.
- Demonstrate 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.