Clinical Nurse I - New Graduate 2026 MTSU

Responsibilities

• Participates in identifying and meeting learning needs of self.
• Attends education programs based on identified learning needs.
• Uses patient education materials relevant to patient population.
• Assesses readiness to learn of the patient/family/caregivers.
• Assesses developmental level of patient and factors affecting ability to learn.
• Identifies expected patient outcomes.
• Sets goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
• Develops goals to promote professional growth or minimize limitations.
• Achieves goals and objectives within identified time frame or renegotiates with supervisor.
• Is knowledgeable about activities which facilitate intra/interdepartmental collaboration.
• Participates in development and achievement of unit goals and performance improvement activities.
• Effectively uses communication systems.
• Promotes a safe, clean and secure hospital environment for all.
• Reads journals that contain studies or articles that may be applicable to practice.
• Bridges gaps between research and practice.

Requirements

• Graduation from a school of professional nursing.
• Licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina by the day of clinical care.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Provider certification.

Qualifications

• No prior experience required.

Skills

• Competent clinical nursing care.
• Coordination and delivery of patient care.
• Nursing process.
• Complex problem care.
• Population-appropriate physical, psychosocial, educational and safety aspects of care.
• Bedside point of care testing.
• Healthcare organization and nursing standards, policies and procedures.
• Communication systems.
• Cultural and ethnic issues in planning patient care.
• Planning care.
• Research.

Benefits

Sign on Bonus up to $20,000.

Pay

Not specified.

Schedule

Variable.