Staff RN- Weekend Option - Cardiac -down

Overview

Looking for Experienced RNs

30 hrs/wk, Nights

Every Friday, Saturday and every other Sunday

Pay - $47.80 per hr plus nights differential of $4.90 per hr

In the Cardiac Step-down Unit, we treat patients of all ages. We specialize in treating surgically and medically, those patients with congenital heart defects. We also provide medical cardiac management for children and adolescents with heart and vasculature related disease, as well as perform heart, lung, and heart/lung transplants.

• 24 beds
• Approximately 75% of our population is under the age of six months.
• We are looking for detail‑oriented team members who can handle a fast‑paced environment.

Assists patients to move rapidly, uneventfully, and as effectively as possible through their episode of care while maintaining quality and safety as a priority. Delegates, directs, oversees and provides developmentally appropriate patient care. Practices professional nursing and promotes patient advocacy in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses and maintains a current Ohio Nursing License.

Essential Functions:

• Provides nursing care using a Family Centered approach.
• Assesses individualized patient needs. Communicates patient care needs and priorities to assigned Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), Patient Care Assistants (PCAs), Unit Coordinators, and Allied Health personnel.
• Plans, implements, educates and evaluates care using Evidence-Based Practices.
• Utilizes Therapeutic Communication while monitoring the physical, psychological, and social needs of patients and families.
• Engages in the workplace community by staying aware of changes, participating in data collection or auditing, understanding Quality Improvement, and representing staff at relevant meetings and then reporting important information and updates back to staff.
• Documents according to organizational standards, policies, and procedures.

BSN or Associate degree with commitment to obtain BSN within 5 years of hire, required.

Licensed as a Registered Nurse in the State of Ohio.

Current CPR certification required. Must be willing to obtain and maintain NRP, PALS, ACLS, APHON or other necessary certification as determined by manager based on business unit.

• Occasionally: Biohazard waste, climb stairs/ladder, driving motor vehicles (work required)
  * additional testing may be required, fume/gases/vapors, hand use: grasping, gripping, turning, lifting/carrying: 41-60 lbs, lifting/carrying: 61-100 lbs, machinery, power tools, pushing/pulling: 100 lbs or greater with assistance.
• Frequently: Bend/twist, blood and/or bodily fluids, chemicals/medications, communicable diseases and/or pathogens, depth perception, electricity, lifting/carrying: 0-10 lbs, lifting/carrying: 11-20 lbs, lifting/carrying: 21-40 lbs, patient equipment, pushing/pulling: 0-25 lbs, pushing/pulling: 26-40 lbs, pushing/pulling: 41-60 lbs, pushing/pulling: 61-100 lbs, reaching above shoulder, repetitive hand/arm use, sitting, squat/kneel.
• Continuously: Audible speech, color vision, computer skills, decision making, hearing acuity, interpreting data, peripheral vision, problem solving, seeing – far/near, standing, walking.

EOE M/F/Disability/Vet