Observation Unit

Shift Supervisor (RN) Short Stay Observation

Up to $15,000 Sign-On Bonus | Opportunity to combine Shift Supervisor (0.3) FTE with Staff RN (0.6) for full time schedule (0.9)!

Looking for a nursing role that’s fast-paced, diverse, and rewarding? Mercy Cedar Rapids is hiring Registered Nurses — experienced or new graduates — to join our 28-bed Short Stay Observation Unit.

Not every hospital has a unit like this. This unique unit cares for patients who need brief hospital stays (24-48 hours) after the Emergency Department or surgery. You’ll work with a wide variety of patients including post-op ortho, urology, cardiology, and acute pain. It’s an opportunity to build a broad skill set across multiple specialties while helping patients transition safely and confidently back home.

Schedule That Fits Your Life

• 3 weekly shifts 7p-7:30a!
• 36/hrs per week with Full-Time Benefits

Why Mercy & the Short Stay Observation Unit

• Opportunities to grow across multiple specialties
• A supportive team environment where your voice matters
• Mercy Cedar Rapids is an independent locally managed healthcare system that has served the community for 120+ years.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver safe, high-quality patient-centered care
• Monitor patients recovering from surgery, illness, or acute pain
• Educate patients and families so they feel confident at discharge
• Collaborate closely with physicians, techs, and fellow nurses
• Document accurately and communicate clearly at hand-offs
• Respond quickly to changes in patient condition and emergencies
• Foster a respectful, compassionate, and team-focused environment

Job Description

• Ensures that accurate and clinically relevant information is communicated with patients, their families, and co-workers at hand offs and other times as needed.
• Takes all measures necessary to ensure that the appropriate and involved parties have communicated necessary information in order to allow for the best possible patient outcome.
• Provides and ensures high quality and safe patient care using evidence-based practice, performance improvement, and service excellence.
• Manages customer complaints in a timely and caring manner in the absence of the Director or ANM.
• Assists with department staffing to meet daily census needs and modifies staffing to meet departmental needs as necessary.
• Participates in regular department meetings as applicable.
• Assists with recognizing outstanding individuals or teams in their department.
• Collaborates with others to implement key initiatives and demonstrate performance improvement within the department based on quality metrics.
• Practices cost containment efforts on a shift to shift basis by efficient use of time and resources i.e. man-hours, patient charges, equipment, supplies.
• Fosters interdisciplinary collaborative relationships within the department and organization.
• Serves as a positive role model and mentor for department and hospital staff establishing and reinforcing expectations of cooperation, collaboration, and respect.
• Participates in the orientation and mentoring of new employees.
• Observes and evaluates staff performance providing regular performance feedback and completing annual performance appraisals as delegated.
• Follows Mercy's safety guidelines carries out job-specific safety duties and responsibilities and promptly reports any unsafe conditions, situations, incidents, and injuries.

Department Specific Duties

• Short Stay Observation Unit:
• Serves as a role model for staff by demonstrating clinical expertise when providing direct patient care.
• Displays support for and awareness of Department Business Plan and assists with implementation of Action Plans toward meeting goals.
• Participates in holding unit staff accountable by comprehensively investigating and then providing feedback when there are opportunities for performance improvement followed by written details to Nurse Manager which include employee response.
• Provides consultation upon request within area of clinical expertise to nursing staff or other health professionals throughout the organization.
• Participates in monitoring and maintaining unit compliance with regulatory, accrediting, and policy standards/expectations as evidenced in both mock and…