Registered Nurse, ICU

About the role

Your Experience Matters Rutherford Regional Health System is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More About Our Team At Rutherford Regional Health System, our ICU team is united by a shared commitment to excellence, teamwork, and compassionate care. Guided by our core values of Champion Patient Care, Do the Right Thing, Embrace Individuality, Act with Kindness, and Make a Difference Together, we foster a supportive environment where every team member is valued. Nurses have the opportunity to care for a diverse critical care population while collaborating with an experienced interdisciplinary team dedicated to delivering high-quality, patient-centered care and making a meaningful impact on the lives of patients and their families.

More About Rutherford Regional Health System Rutherford Regional Health System is a 143-bed acute care facility dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care to patients across Rutherford County and surrounding communities. As part of Lifepoint Health, we combine the support and resources of a national healthcare network with the close-knit feel of a community hospital. Through our partnership with Duke Lifepoint Healthcare, we are strengthening quality, expanding access to physician expertise and specialists, and investing in resources that help transform healthcare in Rutherford County. Here, you’ll be part of a collaborative team committed to making a meaningful difference for patients and helping build healthier communities.

Responsibilities

• Performs plan of care intervention, including medication administration, specimen collection, clinical treatments, as well as other medical care treatment.
• Documents patient care given.
• Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate to care team, physician, patient, and family.
• Assists patients with performing activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, elimination, nutrition, and ambulation.
• Collaborates as needed across disciplines to coordinate patient care, including patient transfer, discharge, referral and spiritual/psychosocial support needs.
• Evaluates learning needs of patient and/or family and provides patient/family education appropriate to age, culture, condition, and circumstances.
• Works as an advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.
• Floats to other departments as needed to maintain safe nurse-to-patient ratios.
• Able to manage ventilators, cpap/bipap, vapotherms.
• Able to titrate and maintain critical drips on the ICU patient, including knowledge of indications, contraindications, and side effects.
• Must pass a