Registered Nurse - Medical Intensive Care Unit (2N BAY)

About the role

Signed on bonus available up to $10,000. Daily work times: 7pm - 7:30am. Shift: Nights. Scheduled bi-weekly. Hours: 72.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with physician to provide a plan of care.
• Provides bedside nursing care and carries out medical orders.
• Delegates to and oversees Nurse Assistant, Patient Care Associate, OB Care Associate, Surgical Service Assistant, Nursing Clerk and Psychiatric Tech functions.
• Evaluates effectiveness of care plan.
• Assumes 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.
• 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.
• Functioning as a team leader to ensure proper patient placement and delegation of assignments.
• Communicating relevant information in a manner that is understandable and effective.
• Showing organizational skills through effective planning.
• Utilizing the nursing process on admission and throughout hospitalization, actively involving the patient and family in the plan of care through: Assessment Planning Implementation Evaluation.
• Demonstrating safe medication administration in accordance to established procedure.
• Responding to real or simulated emergency and disaster situations according to established Policy & Procedure.
• Maintaining a safe patient care environment.
• Demonstrating competency and knowledge in performing basic and specific skills and the utilization of equipment required for patient care.
• Collects and analyzes data pertaining to patient care or unit-specific activity/process.
• Provides for age specific needs of the population served according to unit specific competencies as evidenced by observation, documentation and peer feedback.
• Adheres to National Patient Safety Goals.
• Consistently demonstrates Bay Pride behaviors.
• Participates in activities which promote quality improvement and research in nursing.
• Performs other related duties as required and directed.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and holding a current license to practice in the state of Michigan.
• BLS issued by American Heart Association or Red Cross.
• Must satisfactorily complete ACLS course and Critical Care course within one year of hire/transfer.
• Must satisfactorily complete first available Basic Dysrhythmia course.
• Prior six-month experience in acute care setting or equivalent Critical Care Registered Nurse preferred.