Registered Nurse - Float Pool

Position: Registered Nurse - Float Pool (2025-1333)

Registered Nurse - Float Pool )

Job Title: Registered Nurse - Float Pool
Req:
Location: VMC Main Campus, Renton, WA
Department: Nurse Float
Shift: Days
Type: Full Time
FTE: 0.9
Category: Nursing
Salary Range: Min $46.94 - Max $85.76/hrly. DOE

Job Overview

The staff RN is a licensed professional who assumes responsibility for a group of patients for a designated time frame, providing safe, quality care using the nursing process.

Prerequisites

• BSN preferred.
• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in Washington.
• Successful completion of a graduate nurse residency program orientation or six months' experience as a Registered Nurse.
• AHA BLS for healthcare providers required.

Preferred For Advancement To Charge Nurse Role

• BSN
• Two years' practice in clinical nursing/leadership in area of responsibility preferred.

General Qualifications

• Demonstrates leadership skills with ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, inquiry, innovation, and systems thinking.
• Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• Adheres to Professional Appearance Policy.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community-centered, compassionate, and meet the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with people of all age groups.
• Practices in a caring environment with excellent customer service skills.
• Functions within ANA Standards and the Nurse Practice Act.
• Ability to access information and communicate in an electronic environment, including order entry, e‑mail, and computer documentation.
• Self-directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education and research.

Unique Physical/Mental Demands, Environment And Working Conditions

Must be able to provide safe patient handling as defined in VMC's Safe Patient Handling guidelines and policies, including lifting up to 40 pounds, operating patient lifting equipment, stooping, bending, reaching, crouching, squatting, standing and walking for extensive periods. Requires full body range of motion, manual and finger dexterity, eye‑hand coordination, corrected vision, hearing within normal range, and color discrimination.

Essential Responsibilities And Competencies

• Assesses, guides, directs, and facilitates workflow on the unit. Recognizes when it is necessary for the charge nurse to assume a patient assignment and assumes that role.
• Make staff assignments that reflect patient acuity, continuity of care, staff competency and the necessity of admission, transfer, and discharge activities on all clinical units.
• Mentors staff, float, and agency personnel regarding unit/department/hospital policies, procedures/standards and annual goals and objectives.
• Integrates new staff and agency staff into the culture of the unit.
• Functions as a leader and role model for clinical staff.
• Acts as a clinical resource to unit staff, demonstrating safe use of patient care equipment and teaching others.
• Identifies resource RN for LPN, PCA, and MST as necessary.
• Monitors and evaluates nursing care given to each patient through direct observation, consultation, and patient rounds.
• Assesses unit/environmental safety during patient rounds and reports/corrects deficiencies.
• Maintains awareness of Joint Commission standards, state codes, and practice acts; monitors documentation compliance and facilitates rapid turnaround cycles.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills.
• Responds to patient and family concerns/complaints.
• Reports significant events to supervisors and activates the chain of command per policy.
• Provides input into performance appraisal of clinical staff on assigned shift by documenting feedback and/or communicating concerns to manager.
• Evaluates and provides adequate coverage for breaks.
• Maintains fiscal responsibility by monitoring and adjusting staffing during shift and determining staffing needs for the following shift by clinical judgment.
• Accepts personal responsibility to maintain competencies for direct patient care and team leadership.
• Communicates and collaborates with bed placement and the clinical resource to ensure expedited placement.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Health Care Provider

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