Registered Nurse Inpatient - NICU Special Care Nursery Nights

About the role

The Special Care Nursery Registered Nurse at Vanderbilt Health provides comprehensive care to patients, including patient and family education and coordination of care. They collaborate in establishing patient goals and evaluating progress to ensure effective outcomes.

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.
• 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.
• Has experience in gathering 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.

Qualifications

• LIC-Registered Nurse - Licensure.
• Relevant Work Experience: 1 year.
• Education: Graduate of an approved discipline specific program.

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Effective organizational and time management skills.

Benefits

• Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
• Dental and /or vision plan
• 403 (b) retirement plan
• Paid Time off (flex PTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied)
• Short-Long term disability
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Many more...

Pay

Vanderbilt Health offers a competitive pay program designed to attract and retain top talent. Details can be found in the "Position Qualifications" section.

Schedule

7PM-7AM, 36 hours per week.