RN - ICU, Nights

Overview

Experience the advantages of real career change. Join Piedmont to move your career in the right direction. Stay for the diverse teams you’ll love, a shared purpose, and schedule flexibility that frees you to live for what matters both in and outside of work. You’ll feel valued, motivated to be your best, and recognized for your contributions to exceptional patient outcomes.

Piedmont leaders are in your corner, invested in your success. Our wellness programs and comprehensive total benefits and rewards meet your needs today and help you plan for the future.

The staff nurse provides nursing care to patients from birth through the lifecycle utilizing nursing processes to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate the care for patients. They function within the framework of the policies and procedures of the organization and demonstrate professional growth and accountability. The staff nurse is responsible for maintaining standards of practice, coordinating patient care activities of all assigned staff in the provision of quality nursing care.

• Graduate from a nursing program – Required
• Bachelor's Degree – Preferred

• No experience required;
  New Graduates of a nursing program eligible – Required
• Nursing Experience in Hospital Setting – Preferred
• 1 year in a hospital setting for PRN positions – Required

• RN – Registered Nurse – Georgia State Licensure and/or NLC/eNCL Multistate Licensure;
  Current License in the State of Georgia as a Registered Nurse or NLC/eNCL Multistate License – Required
• BCLS – Basic Life Support – Required

• Advanced certification in field of specialty, if applicable (see addendum)

• ACLS Certification – required within 180 Days (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date)

• ACLS Certification – required within 180 Days (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date)

• CDN (Certified Dialysis Certificate) – preferred

• ACLS and PALS Certification – required within 180 Days (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date). Experienced Emergency Department nurses will have 6 months to obtain the PALS certification.

• Chemotherapy/Biotherapy Certification – required upon hire before independent chemotherapy administration

• PALS Certification – required at Piedmont Columbus Hospital (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date); PEARS or PALS Certification – required at Piedmont Athens Hospital (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date) – required within 180 Days

• Pre Op/PACU/ENDO/CSU – ACLS; PALS if unit provides care to pediatric patients (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date); OR – BLS required only within 180 Days

• Labor and Delivery – ACLS Certification (Nurse Residents or nurses new to specialty will complete applicable certifications within 6 months of start date); NRP by the end of orientation period; AWHONN Intermediate Fetal Monitoring Program within 12 months of start date;
  Mother/Baby – NRP by the end of orientation period; NICU – NRP by the end of orientation period; NAT (Newborn Admission Team) – NRP by the end of orientation period;
  Nursery – NRP by the end of orientation period – required within 180 Days