Registered Nurse - Emergency Services West Branch

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Absorbs responsibility for a leadership role encompassing: integrating evidence-based knowledge into practice, delegation and coordination of tasks and assignments of nursing care, facilitating/participating in patient conferences, identifying and providing the means to meet patients’ ongoing and discharge/transfer teaching needs by communicating with the appropriate resource persons and attending discharge/transfer planning conferences, assuming the responsibility for professional growth by seeking out educational opportunities and utilizing programs in the hospital or elsewhere in the community, teaching and/or guiding professional and ancillary personnel, precepts/mentors new employees and students, functioning as a team leader to ensure proper patient placement and delegation of assignments.
• Communicates relevant information in a manner that is understandable and effective. Shows organizational skills through effective planning. Utilizes the nursing process on admission and throughout hospitalization, actively involving the patient and family in the plan of care through: assessment planning implementation evaluation.
• Demonstrates safe medication administration in accordance to established procedure.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and holding a current license to practice in the state of Michigan.
• Valid Michigan Registered Nurse License.
• BLS issued by America Heart Association or Red Cross Certification.
• Must satisfactorily complete first available Basic Dysrhythmia course.
• Must satisfactorily complete ACLS course and Basic Neuroscience course within one year of hire/transfer.
• Must satisfactorily complete Non-Violent Physical Intervention course within one year of hire/transfer.
• Must satisfactorily complete TNCC (Trauma Nurse Certification) within two years of hire/transfer.
• Must satisfactorily complete PALS within two years of hire/transfer.

Qualifications

None

Skills

None

Benefits

None

Pay

Commensurate with experience

Schedule

Full-time