Critical Care RN

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high‑quality care that truly impacts patients' well‑being and recovery. You will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. Collaboration within an interdisciplinary team is essential to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

• Diagnostic and patient monitoring – detection and recognition of acute changes, escalation of concerns, and handling critical results.
• Administration and monitoring of therapeutic interventions and regimens – starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients’ rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown, and following safety policies.
• Effective management of rapidly changing situations – identifying, assessing, and anticipating patient needs.
• Organization and work‑rule competencies – prioritizing, coordinating, and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner.
• Helping role – consistently contributing to a healing environment, providing patient comfort, supporting human dignity, serving as a patient advocate, and maintaining a therapeutic environment.
• Teaching‑coaching function – assessing patient readiness to learn, effectively explaining conditions, and interpreting illness for patients.

Requirements

• Associate of Nursing (required upon hire)
• Registered Nurse: TN (required upon hire)
• Basic Life Support – CPR (required upon hire)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (required within 6 months of hire)
• Preferred: Bachelor of Nursing (required upon hire)
• Preferred: Pediatric Advanced Life Support (required upon hire)

Where you’ll work

CommonSpirit Memorial is an award‑winning, not‑for‑profit, faith‑based health care organization dedicated to the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. Founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, it offers a comprehensive continuum of care—from preventative and primary care to acute hospital services specializing in cancer, cardiac, neuroscience, stroke, and orthopedic services. The organization has earned repeated top recognition from U.S. News and World Report, PINC AI™, CMS, Healthgrades®, Leapfrog, and was recently named one of the Best Places to Work in Tennessee. It serves Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia with the expertise of 4,700 employees and nearly 500 affiliated physicians.

Pay

$33.11 – $49.25 per hour