Experienced Registered Nurse, Acute Progressive Neurology Care, Full Time, Nights

Jackson Memorial Hospital - West Wing 12, 1611 NW 12 Ave., Miami, FL 33136

About the Role

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Located in the heart of Miami, it is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, providing nearly every medical specialty through a multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

The Clinical Staff Nurse (CSN) functions as a champion of quality patient care and professional caregiver, demonstrating critical thinking skills and scientific judgment in planning and delivering care. The CSN performs at a competent level of nursing, consistently applying the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, teaching, health promotion, and evaluation. The role upholds the highest standards of professional performance, including ethics, cultural diversity, communication, collaboration, evidence-based practice, research, quality, resource utilization, and environmental health.

Responsibilities

• Implements and coordinates the delivery of care in collaboration with physicians and other healthcare staff.
• Utilizes the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation) in applying nursing knowledge.
• Documents all pertinent information regarding nursing care, care plans, and observations.
• Accounts for narcotics and emergency equipment on each tour of duty.
• Maintains a working knowledge of facility infection control procedures.
• Recognizes, questions, and reports significant patient findings or inconsistencies in medical/nursing orders or treatment regimes; collaborates and seeks corrective action.
• Selects, individualizes, updates, and adheres to clinical procedures, protocols, standards, clinical pathways, plans of care, narcotics policies, and discharge/teaching plans.
• Completes and submits patient/unit charges.
• Recognizes and prioritizes unit needs, implements corrective action independently, and assumes charge nurse role when assigned.
• Applies logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions or approaches to problems.
• Provides functional direction and assistance to LPNs, CNAs, or MAs, and completes new staff orientation as assigned.
• Makes rounds on a timely basis to ensure continuity of care.
• Maintains HIPAA compliance at all times.
• Follows and performs all related unit-specific policies and procedures as detailed on the unit-specific competency checklist.
• Utilizes job and unit-specific equipment as required.
• Demonstrates behaviors of service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Expertise).
• Performs all other related job duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Valid Florida RN license is required.
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification with at least 6 months validity, and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers required at the unit level upon hire; must maintain for the duration of employment.
• Must meet and maintain all unit-specific and organizational skills, competencies, certifications, and licensures as required by regulatory and nursing standards of practice for the specialty.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree in Nursing is required; BSN degree is preferred.
• For employees performing Point of Care testing in the Operating Room, Neuro ICU, NICU, PICU, Pedi-ER, Cath Lab, and/or Interventional Radiology areas, the educational degree must be verified at the time of hire; minimum required is Associate's degree.
• Generally requires 1 to 3 years of related experience.
• Preferred: At least one year of experience as an inpatient acute care and/or progressive care registered nurse.

Schedule

Full Time, Nights: 7:00 pm - 7:00 am, rotating weekends.