Registered Nurse; RN - Intermediate Step Down Unit - St. Joseph Hospital Warren

Overview

At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence. The Intermediate Care (IMC) Unit is currently seeking dedicated and compassionate Registered Nurses to join our award-winning team. Our 30-bed unit includes 14 private rooms and 8 semi-private rooms, and we provide care for a diverse patient population including those with cardiac and pulmonary conditions, as well as patients experiencing surgical complications.

Unique to our unit, we are one of the few areas outside of the ICU that cares for ventilator-dependent patients with tracheostomies. We strive to maintain a 1:4 nurse-to-patient ratio to ensure safe, high-quality care and support for our staff. The IMC team is a dynamic mix of experience levels, from new graduate nurses to professionals with over 30 years of service.

We are proud recipients of the Daisy Team Award, recognizing our commitment to excellence, teamwork, and patient-centered care. If you’re looking to build your skills in a high-acuity environment while being supported by a collaborative and knowledgeable team, we would love to welcome you to the IMC family.

Full Time:
Scheduled for 36 Weekly Hours. Shift Time:
All, Weekend-only options. This position will have scheduled shifts every other weekend.

The Stepdown Registered Nurse (RN) delivers patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment, identifying and determining the priority of patient’s problems/needs, and evaluating the process and outcome of nursing care, all in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team. The RN coordinates, provides, and directs patient teaching activities and coordinates the care provided by health team members.

• Conducts initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyzes assessment data, creates a plan of care, implements treatment, and evaluates treatment effectiveness
• Administers medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures
• Serves as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments
• Acts as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department
• Serves as patient advocate in collaboration with spiritual care, palliative care, and ethics
• Serves as a point of care with care coordination and family members or caregivers
• Clinically manages patients with multi-system organ failure and/or multisystem trauma
• Using the AACN Synergy Model, restores, supports, promotes, rehabilitates, or palliates to maintain the physiologic, psychologic, and psychosocial stability of patients across the lifespan
• Synthesizes and prioritizes information in order to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient-focused action using clinical judgement and clinical inquiry
• Anticipates and responds with confidence and adapts to rapidly changing patient conditions
• Responds to the unique needs of the patients and families coping with unanticipated illness or injury and treatment and advocate for their choices in quality of life
• BSMH nurses are expected to practice and deliver care in accordance with the core concepts and intention of the BSMH Nursing Professional Practice Model

Current RN license in state they are working or covered by compact (preferred). BLS Basic Life Support (preferred upon hire, must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care). ACLS (preferred). CCRN (preferred). PCCN (preferred). NIH Stroke Certification (preferred).

Bachelor of Science Nursing (preferred).

EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training (preferred). Critical Care Course (preferred).

• Assigns patient care according to the nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff
• Orients, facilitates learning experience, and provides education to nursing staff and others
• Possesses clinical knowledge, skills, and competency to provide evidence-based patient care in accordance with current standards of practice, policy and procedure, and BSMH mission
• Performs comprehensive assessment of patient's clinical condition and psychosocial needs
• Safely and efficiently develops, implements, and prioritizes plan of care
• Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery
• Assesses patient's physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and patient outcomes
• Assists patient and family in coping with patient's illness
• Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills
• Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients and their support resources
• Recognizes own limitations and seeks assistance to perform safely
• Advances personal and…