Registered Nurse, ER (Sango), full time nights, Clarksville

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated.

About the Role

Responsible for planning, organizing, and administering patient care within the scope of training and expertise, collaborating with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes. This role operates in conjunction with the objectives and policies of the hospital and the Nurse Practice Act of the State of Tennessee.

Full-time position (36 hours/week), nights (6:45pm - 6:45am).

Responsibilities

• Collaborates in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements 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.
• Works autonomously to provide safe, thorough, and effective physician-ordered care in the home setting.
• Conducts primary care patient interviews, assesses the safety of the home environment, and performs a comprehensive physical assessment.
• Demonstrates appropriate acumen to recognize problems, ask questions, and contact the patient's primary care provider.
• Provides patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify distinct tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility.
• Competently handles multiple assignments often simultaneously by prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units.
• Adapts to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
• Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
• Searches for nutrition evidence to answer clinical questions, generally working under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.

Skills

• Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Home Care - Novice): Possesses ample fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate patients.
• Nursing Patient Education (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency in providing patient education.
• Care Planning (Novice): Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs and manage tasks effectively.
• Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to search for nutrition evidence.

Core Accountabilities

• Organizational Impact: Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output impacts other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
• Problem Solving/Complexity of Work: Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
• Breadth of Knowledge: Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area.
• Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to team members.

Core Capabilities

• Supporting Colleagues:
  • Develops Self and Others: Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to improve performance and gain knowledge.
  • Builds and Maintains Relationships: Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders to expand and strengthen relationships.
  • Communicates Effectively: Recognizes group interactions and modifies communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
• Delivering Excellent Services:
  • Serves Others with Compassion: Seeks to understand current and future needs of stakeholders and customizes services accordingly.
  • Solves Complex Problems: Approaches problems from different angles and identifies new opportunities.
  • Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Provides ongoing support and coaching to increase employees' effectiveness.
• Ensuring High Quality:
  • Performs Excellent Work: Engages in dialogue about quality and addresses issues promptly.
  • Ensures Continuous Improvement: Looks beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems.
  • Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks.
• Managing Resources Effectively:
  • Demonstrates Accountability: Focuses on and drives critical issues to closure.
  • Stewards Organizational Resources: Applies understanding of departmental work to manage resources effectively.
  • Makes Data-Driven Decisions: Demonstrates understanding of data to identify and elevate opportunities.
• Fostering Innovation:
  • Generates New Ideas: Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources.
  • Applies Technology: Demonstrates enthusiasm for learning new technologies and tools.
  • Adapts to Change: Views difficult situations as opportunities for improvement.

Requirements

• Licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Tennessee.
• Graduate of an approved discipline-specific program.
• Less than 1 year of relevant work experience.

Benefits

• Affordable, high-quality health plan options.
• Dental and/or vision plans.
• 403(b) retirement plan.
• Paid Time Off (flex PTO).
• Tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied).
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Subsidized backup childcare.
• Inpatient nursing supplemental pay program.

About Our Nursing Philosophy

We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of quality in patient care, education, and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families, and communities reach excellent health and well-being.