Registered Nurse; RN; Acuity

Registered Nurse (RN) - Flexible Acuity
- Full-Time
- Days

Beacon Health System is hiring a full-time day-shift

Registered Nurse for our Flexible Acuity Unit at Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, IN
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Type:Full-Time/FTE 0.9 (36hrs/wk)
Shift:Day
Shift Details:7a-7:30p

Be a Beacon. Make a Difference.

At Beacon Health System,you’renot just part of ateam,you’repart of something bigger. Every patient interaction is a chance to lead with compassion, build trust, and create lasting impact. Here, yourexpertisesupports healing, and your heart connects us to the communities we serve.

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

About Elkhart Hospital
Elkhart General Hospital is a not-for-profit hospitallocatedin Elkhart, Indiana. Our full-service, 357-licensed-bed hospital has served the community for more than 100 years with a variety of services including:
Emergency Department; radiology; orthopedics; maternity,pregnancy and childbirth; behavioral health; imaging and lab; genetic counseling;

DaVinci robotic surgery. As part of Beacon Health System, patients have access to providers not only at this location but canalsoaccess resources and services from across the entire health system.

What You’llDo

As a Flexible Acuity Unit Registered Nurse,you’ll reportto the Manager of Patient Care Services. Provides professional nursing services. Assesses the needs of patients and initiates, implements and evaluates individualized plans of care. Collaborates with other professional,clinical and ancillary staff in providing quality care to patients.

Flexible Acuity Unit RN Job Responsibilities

Performs 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 dataindicatingpotential or actual risk to an individual's physical or emotional health byinitiatingaction to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.

Advocate for the patient or family when necessary to achieveappropriate 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, orassistancewhen 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 oninitialand 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 ormaintaininterventions toassurecontinuity of safe and effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care.

Modify,continueordiscontinueinterventions, goals, ortimeframes, according to evaluation of effectiveness,efficiency and/or patient satisfaction.

Document, consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collectionresultsand 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…