Description
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients.
The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice, and coordination of care with other health team members.
Position Details
- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- Shift Details: Full-time, 36 hours/week, night shift
- Department: Emergency Department
- Primary Location: St George Regional Hospital
- Additional Details: Licensed RN experience in an Emergency Department and/or high acuity setting preferred. One year of licensed RN experience required.
Essential Functions
- Assess: Performs appropriate assessment of physical, social, and psychological status.
- Plan: Uses assessment information and critical thinking skills to collaboratively develop individualized plan of care.
- Implement: Directs the interdisciplinary care team via delegation, coordination, and collaboration as appropriate.
- Evaluate: Evaluates patient response to interventions through review of achievement of goals, clinical outcomes, patient, and family satisfaction.
- Professionalism: Promotes nursing profession and participates in development of others.
Minimum Qualifications
- Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of practice.
- Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.
- RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four years of their hire date.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN).
Physical Requirements
- Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
- Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
- Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
- Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients.
Benefits We provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness.
Salary $35.22 - $53.29 per hour