Registered Nurse. Medicine Stepdown, Full Time Nights (Premium Pay)

About the role

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a community dedicated to advancing health and wellness through teaching, discovery, and patient care. The Medicine Stepdown unit, located on the 14th floor of Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, focuses on caring for adult patients with various medical conditions. The unit operates on a full-time night shift, 7:00pm - 7:00am, three times per week.

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

• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an approved discipline specific program.
• Relevant work experience, 1 year minimum.

Skills

• Nursing Patient Education (Novice).
• Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Novice).
• Evidence-Based Practice (Novice).

Benefits

Our benefits package includes:

• 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

NEW - Effective November 18th, select units at Vanderbilt University Hospital will receive a premium night shift differential of $10/hour on top of our newly adjusted hourly wages.

Schedule

This is a full-time night shift position. The shift is 7:00pm - 7:00am, three times per week for a total of 36 hours per week, including some weekends.