Registered Nurse - N Transitional Care Unit

Registered Nurse - 1 N Transitional Care Unit

Department: 1 N Transitional Care Unit

Daily Work Times: 7:00 pm - 7:30 am

Shift: Nights

Scheduled Bi-Weekly

Hours:

72

Position Summary: The registered nurse is a professional nurse who coordinates the delivery of nursing care for monitored patients during their hospital stay including cardiac monitoring, hemodynamic stabilization, responsiveness to emergent situations, and care of evidence‑based medicine patients. The registered nurse ensures that quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the Michigan Department of Public Health, the medical center and nursing department standards.

Utilizing the nursing process, the RN functions primarily in direct patient care, participates in maintaining a safe patient care environment, maintains patient privacy, dignity, confidentiality, and respects patient rights.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Performs purposeful hourly rounding including:
  Pain, Position, Personal needs and Possessions.
• Applies the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and discharge to meet patient/family needs.
• Provides professional direct and indirect patient care in the medical‑surgical telemetry setting.

Qualifications:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Must possess a valid State of Michigan Nursing License.
• BLS certified.
• Possesses excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate and present oneself to patients, visitors, other staff and physicians verbally and in writing in a courteous, confident and professional manner.

Preferred:

• Previous work experience within the specific unit specialty.
• Specialty certification within the specific unit.

Additional Information:

• Schedule:
  
  Full-time
• Requisition :
• Daily Work Times: 7:00 pm - 7:30 am
• On Call:
  No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.