Registered Nurse; RN ) ERT, Surgery, Part-Time- Evenings

Overview

Beacon Health System is hiring a part-time, evening-shift Registered Nurse ERT in Surgery at Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, IN
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Type:
Part-Time/FTE 0.6 (24 hrs/wk)

Shift: Evenings

Shift Details:
Three 8-hr shifts, plus call rotation

Be a Beacon. Make a Difference.

At Beacon Health System, you’re not just part of a team, you’re part of something bigger. Every patient interaction is a chance to lead with compassion, build trust, and create lasting impact. Here, your expertise supports healing, and your heart connects us to the communities we serve.

As a Surgery Registered Nurse, you’ll report to the Manager of Surgery 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 self and delegated actions and decisions. Base 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; 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, 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 the collective needs of patients, families, and unit. Maintain 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, 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.
• Follow through and complete other job-related assignments or requests for assistance.
• Attend and participate in department meetings and is accountable for all information shared.
• Complete mandatory education, annual competencies, and department-specific education within established time frames.
• Complete annual employee health requirements within established time frames.
• Maintain license/certification, with registration in good standing throughout the fiscal year.
• Direct patient care providers are required to maintain current BLS (CPR) and other certifications as required by position/department.