Registered Nurse; RN; Med Surg ICU

Overview

Join our dedicated healthcare team where compassion meets innovation! As a Registered Nurse with us, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in patients' lives while enjoying a supportive work environment that fosters professional growth and work-life balance.

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
• Generous paid time off
• Career development and continuing education opportunities
• Health savings accounts, healthcare & dependent flexible spending accounts
• Employee Assistance program, Employee discount program
• Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, legal insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, long‑term care, elder & childcare, auto & home insurance

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location and is determined by employment status.

Shift: Rotating

Hours:

Per Diem

The Clinical Nurse assumes principal responsibility for the total nursing care, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of each assigned patient. The staff nurse initiates teaching and educates the patient and family or significant other to attain optimal health. Access to all Patient Health Information for treatment purposes only.

• Obtains information and interprets it in terms of the patient’s needs.
• Demonstrates knowledge of growth and development.
• Understands the range of treatment needed as appropriate to the ages of the patients served.
• Independently cares for two critically ill patients.
• Assesses and recognizes changes in condition, notifies the physician appropriately, and reports accurately and concisely; documents completely including reassessments.
• Provides head‑to‑toe critical assessment and reports utilizing critical thinking skills; includes changes in condition, treatments rendered, and vasoactive medication dosages.
• Manages multiple drips and sedation.
• Assesses and cares for patients on ventilators and understands alarms and patient parameters.
• Understands hemodynamic status, correlates Swan‑Ganz readings, blood pressure, and urine output to assess appropriately.
• Assists with bedside procedures such as arterial line placement.
• Initiates interdisciplinary communications and incorporates recommendations.
• Demonstrates consistent knowledge and skills for appropriate care across patient age groups on the assigned unit.
• Acts as a liaison between patient, physicians, family or significant other, and other health disciplines.
• Develops, implements, and updates individualized teaching and discharge plans.
• Initiates and documents progressive patient and family teaching.
• Facilitates the discharge process, ensuring all goals are addressed prior to discharge.
• Utilizes current theories and knowledge for accurate assessments and evaluations.
• Completes acuity evaluation on all assigned patients per unit protocol.
• Adapts to altered work patterns, sets priorities, and reallocates assignments to meet patient needs using available resources.
• Administers medications prescribed by physicians, including IVs, blood, and blood products; knows actions, indications, contraindications, precautions, adverse reactions, dosage, and route of administration.
• Verifies medication orders against MAR for ongoing accuracy.
• Recognizes, evaluates, and intervenes appropriately in life‑threatening situations.
• Checks new patient orders throughout the shift and implements them in a timely manner.
• Completes an end‑of‑shift review of physician orders.
• Notifies the physician in a timely manner regarding variances in diagnostic tests, vital signs, and assessments.
• Functions as a charge nurse as assigned.
• Supports changes in clinical practice as evidenced by the plan of care and subsequent documentation.
• Serves as a resource…