Experienced Registered Nurse ICU, Float Pool, JHS Workforce Plus, Per Diem, Nights

Jackson Memorial Hospital - JHS Workforce Plus Critical Care Facility, 1611 NW 12 Ave., Miami, FL 33136

About the Facility

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 has been ground zero for some of the world's greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida. We've grown into one of the nation's largest public hospitals and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world's most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

About the Role

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

The CSN will function within the JHS CARE Model, which includes accountability for planning, implementing, evaluating, and communicating all phases of nursing care for assigned patients. The CSN possesses clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.

Responsibilities

• Implements and coordinates the delivery of care in collaboration with physicians and other healthcare providers.
• 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 and/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 overt/covert unit needs, problems, and implements corrective action independently.
• Assumes charge nurse role when assigned; supervises designated personnel and takes action as needed.
• Applies logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, and 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

• Associate's degree in Nursing is required; BSN degree is preferred.
• Valid Florida RN license is required.
• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers are required upon hire with at least 6 months validity and must be maintained at JHS for the duration of employment.
• Must meet and maintain valid and current all unit-specific and organizational skills, competencies, certifications, and licensures as required by regulatory and/or nursing standards of practice for the specialty.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Generally requires 1 to 3 years of related experience.
• At least 3 years' experience as a hospital registered nurse in critical care is preferred.
• Hospital float registered nurse experience is preferred.

Unit-Specific Credentials

• Adv Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS)
• Basic Life Support (BLS)

Schedule

Per Diem, Nights 7:00 PM - 7:00 AM (minimum three shifts a month).