First Choice RN

Are you an experienced Registered Nurse looking for premium compensation and maximum flexibility? Explore FirstChoice – Trinity Health's nurse staffing solution! FirstChoice RNs fill short and long-term assignments throughout the health system, with nationwide opportunities available.

About the Role

FirstChoice is Trinity Health's internal resource pool designed for nurses who desire flexible scheduling, increased pay scales, and variety in practice settings and learning opportunities. As a FirstChoice RN, you will provide quality patient-centered care considering age-specific, developmental, cultural, and spiritual needs through competent clinical practice and application of the nursing process.

Benefits

• Flexible scheduling
• Premium pay
• Variety of practice settings
• Learning opportunities
• Minimum commitment
• Online self-scheduling

Responsibilities

• Integrate concepts of relationship-based care into practice consistently.
• Assume accountability for nursing care of designated patients and demonstrate unit/area designated competencies.
• View patients holistically, considering physical, psychosocial, emotional, age-specific, cultural, and spiritual factors.
• Provide critical thinking by gathering and analyzing patient information and responding to patient situations with corrective or creative interventions.
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and revise an individualized plan of care using evidence-based interventions, involving the patient and family.
• Identify patient and family education needs, develop and implement a teaching plan, and utilize the teach-back methodology.
• Plan for care across the continuum, including discharge readiness in collaboration with other disciplines.
• Participate effectively as a member of the interdisciplinary team to achieve patient outcomes.
• Assure quality patient outcomes in collaboration with medical staff and the healthcare team.
• Participate in unit/organizational quality and safety initiatives.
• Identify and prevent hospital-acquired conditions such as nosocomial infections, falls, and pressure ulcers.
• Manage team members to provide care for a group of patients, prioritizing activities and delegating appropriately.
• Organize and prioritize individual workload around patient and unit needs effectively.
• Steward available resources effectively and identify education and professional growth needs.
• Participate in quality improvement and evidence-based practice activities.
• Maintain confidentiality of patient, physician, associate, and visitor information.
• Perform job duties safely and report hazards immediately to management.
• Adhere to applicable laws, regulations, and Trinity Health's Corporate Integrity Program and Code of Ethics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Current BLS certification; ACLS required for critical care.
• Willingness to float throughout the hospital and/or multiple hospital locations.
• EPIC experience preferred.
• Cannot hold a concurrent position at a Trinity Health facility.
• Ability to complete orientation and training.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program with a current Nursing License in the state of employment.
• Active BLS certification; credentials required per specialty area (e.g., ACLS, TNCC).
• BSN preferred.
• Minimum of eighteen (18) months to two (2) years of recent clinical experience in the relevant specialty area.
• Knowledge of nursing theory, practice, and age-specific needs.
• Interpersonal skills necessary for collegial relationships with coworkers and therapeutic relationships with patients and families.
• Critical thinking skills for performing principal duties and responsibilities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in a collaborative, shared leadership environment.
• Personal presence characterized by honesty, integrity, and caring, with the ability to inspire and motivate others.

Skills

• Ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail.
• Ability to walk and stand continuously (at least 90% of the time).
• Ability to move, lift, and position patients.
• Ability to set and organize work priorities and adapt to changing situations.
• Ability to work concurrently on multiple tasks in a potentially stressful environment with diverse personalities.
• Manual dexterity for operating a keyboard.
• Hearing for extensive telephone and in-person communication.

Specialty Areas

• Travel Nurse
• Registered Nurse (RN)
• ICU, CCU, CICU, CVOR, Critical Care
• OR, CNOR, Scrub, Circulate, First Assist, AORN
• ER, ED, Emergency
• MICU, SICU, Surgical Services, Surgical ICU, Step-Down, PCU, Progressive Care, Telemetry
• Medical Surgical, Med/Surg, M/S
• Neonatal, NICU
• Pre-Operative, Post-Operative, PACU, POCU
• Endoscopy, Endo
• Pain, Wound Care, WOCN