Registered Nurse, Burn Unit, Nights (Premium Pay) - VUH

About the role

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a community dedicated to advancing health and wellness through teaching, discovery, and patient care. The Burn Center 20 is located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates in establishing the plan of care, coordinating and implementing care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the continuum.
• Analyzes comprehensive information pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Continually utilizes the nursing process to evaluate patient's progress towards goals and applies appropriate interventions to ensure effective outcomes.
• Employs strategies to promote health and a safe and healthy environment.

Requirements

• Care Planning (Novice): Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify distinct tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility.
• Competent in handling multiple assignments often simultaneously by prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units.
• Able to adapt to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
• Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.

Qualifications

• Nursing Patient Education (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency in providing patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Conducts primary care patient interviews and physical examinations.
• Demonstrates sufficient acumen to recognize problems, ask questions, and contact the patient's primary care provider and other members of the healthcare team.
• Gathers pertinent clinical data that aid in referral, treatment, or other primary care pathways.
• Evidence-Based Practice (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully search for evidence to answer clinical questions.

Skills

• Ability to adapt to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
• Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
• Collaborates in establishing the plan of care, coordinating and implementing care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the continuum.
• Analyzes comprehensive information pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Continually utilizes the nursing process to evaluate patient's progress towards goals and applies appropriate interventions to ensure effective outcomes.
• Employs strategies to promote health and a safe and healthy environment.

Benefits

Newly adjusted hourly wages, premium night shift differential of $10/hour, starting November 18th. Excellent benefits, PTO, tuition reimbursement, relocation assistance, and learning and development opportunities to advance your career.

Pay

$25.00 - $30.00 per hour based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This is a full-time night shift position. The shift is 7:00pm - 7:00am, three times per week for a total of 36 hours per week, including some weekends.