Registered Nurse, Progressive Care Unit

Registered Nurse, Progressive Care Unit, Full-Time, Days

• Location:
  
  Elkhart, IN
• Department:
  Progressive Care – Cardiac Step-Down

Beacon Health System is hiring a full‑time, day‑shift Registered Nurse for our Progressive Care Unit at Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, IN
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Type: Full‑Time/FTE 0.9 (36hrs/wk)

Shift: Day , Every third weekend)

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance through Cigna
• Life Insurance
• 403(b) Matching Retirement Fund
• Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Shift Differentials
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition and Certification Reimbursement
• Clinical Ladder Program
• Local and National Discounts

As a Progressive Care Unit Registered Nurse, you’ll report to the Manager or Director and provide professional nursing services. You will assess the needs of patients and initiate, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care, collaborating with other professional, clinical, and ancillary staff to provide quality care.

• 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, basing 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, including measurable goals/outcomes and addressing physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and learning needs.
• Initiate or maintain interventions to assure continuity of safe‑effective care across the entire continuum of care.
• Modify, continuing, or discontinuing interventions, goals, or time frames according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency, and patient satisfaction.
• Document consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collection results, and outcomes of interventions.
• Use interpersonal communication strategies with all team members to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction.
• Delegate to other staff members based on acuity/complexity of need, role definition and ability to perform, collective needs of patients, families and unit, maintaining accountability for achieving appropriate outcomes or 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, innovation 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.
• Follow through and complete other job-related assignments or requests for assistance.

You bring a high level of knowledge and competency in performing nursing care procedures, assessments, treatment, and techniques. As a Registered Nurse, your advanced analytical skills are necessary to solve complex problems and make decisions related to patient care. You demonstrate the interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, patients, visitors, physicians and others. You have the ability to communicate both verbally and in writing clearly and concisely, and you are responsive and adaptable for scheduling purposes when necessary.

• Associate of Science in Nursing (ASN) required, Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) preferred.
• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in Indiana.
• Candidates hired after January 1 2014 must have or obtain a BSN within five (5) years of employment as a Registered Nurse, or will have the option to become certified in their area of specialty. The certification must be maintained based on accrediting body standards.