Registered Nurse, Acuity Nights

Registered Nurse, Flexible Acuity, Full‑Time, Nights

• Location:
  
  Elkhart, IN
• Department:
  Flexible Acuity Unit
• Facility:
  Elkhart General Hospital

Beacon Health System is hiring a full‑time, night‑shift Registered Nurse in Flexible Acuity at Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, IN.

Type:
Full‑Time / FTE 0.9 (36 hrs/wk) | Shift: Night | Shift Details: 7p‑7:30a, every 3rd weekend. Be a Beacon. Make a Difference.

As a Flexible Acuity Registered Nurse, you’ll report to the Manager of the Intermediate Care Center and provide professional nursing services. You will assess the needs of patients and initiate, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care. This role will collaborate with other professional, clinical, and ancillary staff in providing quality care to patients.

• Perform the priority (high risk, high frequency) technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
• Establish and/or revise priorities for job/patient care activities based on the acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, consideration of other department or staff priorities, timelines and plans.
• Respond to data indicating potential or actual risk to an individual's physical or emotional health by initiating action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
• Advocate for the patient or family when necessary to achieve appropriate outcomes.
• Maintain accountability for own and delegated actions and decisions. Bases actions and decisions on scientific principles/logic, successful experiences, intuition, standards of practice/protocols, and organizational values.
• Seek supervision, consultation, or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently.
• Use internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
• Develop or revise a plan of care for assigned patients based on initial and ongoing data. Includes measurable goals/outcomes; reflects the values, preferences and limitations of patients and/or family members; identifies interventions to achieve outcomes/goals; addresses pertinent physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and learning problems/needs.
• Initiate or maintain interventions to assure continuity of safe and effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care.
• Modify, continue or discontinue interventions, goals, or time frames, according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency and/or patient satisfaction.
• Document consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collection results and outcomes of interventions.
• Use interpersonal communication strategies with all members of the team in order to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction by those involved.
• Delegate to other staff members based upon acuity/complexity of need, role definition and ability to perform, and the collective needs of patients, families and unit. Maintains accountability for achieving appropriate outcomes/goals associated with delegated acts.
• Maintain awareness of advances in clinical specialty.
• Contribute to the department's ability to achieve and maintain clinical excellence, customer‑focused service excellence, fiscal responsibility, innovative and talented people, and the best place to work.
• Contribute to the development of co‑workers through positive role modeling, resource assistance and direct feedback.

• High level of knowledge and competency in performing nursing care procedures, assessments, treatment, and techniques.
• Advanced analytical skills to solve complex problems and make decisions related to patient care.
• Interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, patients, visitors, physicians, and others.
• Clear and concise communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Responsiveness and reasonable adaptability for scheduling purposes when necessary, due to extenuating circumstances in support of co‑workers and department functions.

• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing…