Registered Professional Nurse IV; Educator), Med-Surg Intensive Care Unit

Join Hilo Benioff Medical Center and be part of a team that proudly cares for our friends, family, and neighbors across East Hawaiʻi.

Hilo Medical Center is seeking a Registered Professional Nurse IV – Assistant Nurse Manager/Educator to support the Intensive Care Unit and provide leadership in clinical education, staff development, and high-quality patient care. This role combines advanced nursing practice, staff supervision, education, and operational coordination to ensure the ICU team maintains clinical competencies and delivers safe, patient-centered care to critically ill patients across the adult and geriatric populations.

• Lead education and staff development: Develop, coordinate, deliver, and evaluate orientation, in-service education, competency programs, and ongoing professional development for ICU staff in alignment with applicable regulatory and organizational standards.
• Provide and oversee clinical care: Assess patients, develop and implement nursing care plans, administer medications and treatments, assist with procedures, provide patient and family education, and ensure accurate and timely documentation.
• Coordinate ICU operations: Function as charge nurse as assigned, coordinate staffing and patient assignments based on patient acuity and staff competencies, delegate responsibilities, and support the efficient use of unit resources.
• Provide clinical leadership and mentorship: Serve as a subject matter expert and role model for nursing skills, procedures, equipment, and clinical practices while coaching, mentoring, and supporting staff development.
• Promote quality and patient safety: Monitor compliance with nursing standards, infection prevention and safety practices, hospital policies, and regulatory requirements; identify opportunities for improvement and participate in performance improvement initiatives.
• Support continuous improvement and collaboration: Collaborate with nursing educators, physicians, interdisciplinary teams, and hospital committees; stay current with nursing trends and evidence-based practices; and assist with evaluation of new equipment, policies, procedures, and clinical initiatives.

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing required.
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) from an accredited college or university is highly desirable.

• Minimum of 1½ years of professional nursing experience. Of the required one and one-half (1 1/2) year of professional nursing work experience, one and one-half (1 1/2) year of professional nursing experience working in an Intensive Care Unit is required. The required experience must have been gained within the past two (2) years.
• Demonstrated supervisory aptitude or potential through leadership, team‑lead, supervisory, administrative, or related nursing responsibilities.

• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within one month of appointment.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification required within six months of employment or transfer into the position.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification required within six months of employment or transfer into the position.

• Current, valid license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Hawaii required.

As the Big Island’s leading providers of inpatient and outpatient care, the East Hawaii Region of Hawai`i Health Systems Corporation (HHSC), consisting of Hilo Benioff Medical Center, Honoka'a Hospital, Ka′u Hospital, Yukio Okutsu State Veterans Home, East Hawaii Medical Group and East Hawaii Health Pharmacy, delivers a full range of services and programs. Our three hospitals include 290 beds and more than 1,900 employees.

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