RN Post-Surgical Weekend Program Nights

Department

34404 Carolinas Medical Center:
Mercy - Nursing: 5N Surgical Telemetry

Part time

Yes

24

Weekend Nights

$38.20 - $57.30

This position is sign-on bonus eligible.

5 North is a 26-bed General Surgery specialty unit. We are a Med‑Surg Unit with heavy surgical volume. We specialize in:

• Elective bariatric/weight loss surgery - these are typically our happiest and easiest patients. They go to the OR and are expected to be up and ambulating on post‑op Day 0.
• General surgery - appendectomies, cholecystectomies, small bowel obstruction, etc.
• Foot and ankle ortho - total ankle replacements and infected foot wounds, BKA’s etc.
• Urology surgery.

A Nurse on our Unit will gain experience in drains of all kinds, wound vacs, central lines, NGT, DHT, and all surgical things!

Atrium Health Mercy, a 196‑bed facility of Carolinas Medical Center, is one of two Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) locations and is 1.3 miles from CMC. As a Planetree Designated facility, we focus on the following:

• Connect values, strategies, and action
• Implement practices that promote partnership
• Use evidence to drive improvement
• Create organizational structures that promote engagement

For more than 100 years, Atrium Health Mercy has treated approximately 80‑110 ED and 130‑212 in‑patients daily with a special combination of human compassion and leading‑edge expertise. Atrium Health Mercy is a full‑service community hospital, specializing in the care of seniors and in complex foot and ankle surgery, hip and knee surgery, bariatric surgery, and women's pelvic health. Atrium Health Mercy is Magnet designated in Nursing Excellence and is also a Planetree designated patient‑centered hospital.

The Planetree model is committed to enhancing health care from the patient’s perspective; empowers patients and families by providing information and education, cultivates healing of the mind‑body‑spirit, provides patient‑directed care, is value‑based, holistic and promotes safety of patients through active involvement in their own care.

Provides professional nursing care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation in accordance with policies and procedures under the supervision of the supervisor and manager. Assists in maintaining a safe work environment and performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner. Maintains clinical and professional competency as appropriate to the age, culture, developmental stages, and special needs of the patients served.

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer’s health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
• Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.
• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
• Attains knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Seeks knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice and promotes futuristic thinking.
• Evaluates one’s own and other’s nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that…