Registered Nurse - PACU W​/Rotating Weekends & On-Call

Registered Nurse

• Sign On Bonus: $10,000
• Department: PACU I
• Schedule:
  
  FT Days 8a-8:30p, Monday - Friday W/ Rotating Weekends & On-Call, One hour response time for on-call
• Hospital:
  Henry Ford Health Genesys
• Location:
  
  Grand Blanc, Michigan

• Use independent professional judgment, analytical skills, and the nursing process to provide a full range of delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services to patients.
• Within the framework of the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner's Domains of Nursing Practice, demonstrate clinical competence, compassion, customer service orientation, focus on process and outcomes, and cost‑consciousness when assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care provided to patients.
• Coordinate the development of a multi‑disciplinary plan of care in accordance with Nursing Problem Care Sets, clinical practice guidelines, and professional regulations to ensure appropriate length of stay and achievement of quality outcomes.
• Provide patient care that respects patients’ rights, dignity, values, culture, preferences, and expressed needs. Assess patient/family needs for information and education, plan and implement patient teaching using a variety of techniques and methods, and evaluate effectiveness of educational interventions.
• Collaborate with patient/family, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans that prepare patients for continued care needs.
• Initiate appropriate interventions for fall prevention, skin breakdown, VTE, aspiration, and medication reconciliation. Establish, direct, coordinate, and document plan of nursing care in conjunction with patient/family.
• Document nursing interventions (NIC) and progress toward outcomes (NOC); patient education; and evaluation every shift, as required.
• Educate patients regarding treatment plans, safety measures, medications, and self‑care. Work with Case Manager to ensure appropriate referrals are initiated prior to discharge.
• Review discharge plans and instructions with patients prior to discharge, ensuring follow‑up arrangements and that core measures such as discharge instructions for CHF patients are met.
• Administer therapeutic regimens, including medications, IVs, and blood products, according to established policies and procedures.
• Perform and assist with nursing procedures, including dressing changes, catheterization, NG tube insertion, suctioning, and blood specimen collection.
• Monitor patients’ physiologic parameters, recognize and report meaningful changes, and intervene appropriately. Respond to life‑threatening emergencies through initiation of CPR and other direct interventions.
• Maintain a safe environment, utilize universal precautions, document restraints, and ensure compassionate communication with patients and families.
• Support quality monitoring and improvement activities, participate in teaching/mentoring of student nurses, and evaluate own performance for continual improvement.

• Licensed Registered Nurse credentialed from the Michigan Board of Nursing obtained within 60 days of hire date or job transfer date.
• Certified BLS Provider (or Certified Instructor) credentialed from the American Heart Association obtained within 90 days of hire date or job transfer date.
• Graduate of an approved professional (RN) nursing program.

• Organization:
  Henry Ford Health Genesys Hospital
• Department:
  Surgery Recovery Room 001
• Shift: Day Job
• Union Code: MIGRA Teamsters RN Local 332