Registered Nurse, Mother/Baby Unit, Full-time nights, Clarksville

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) operates at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care. VUMC is a community where expertise is valued, knowledge is expanded, and abilities are challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and uniqueness is 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.

Schedule

Full-time (36 hours/week), nights (6:45p-6:45a).

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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Home Care - Novice): Possesses ample fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Nursing Patient Education (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency in providing patient education.
• Care Planning (Novice): Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify tasks, set priorities, and organize work.
• Evidence-Based Nutrition Practice (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully search for nutrition evidence to answer clinical questions.
• Supporting Colleagues: Invests in developing self and others, builds relationships, and communicates effectively.
• Delivering Excellent Services: Serves others with compassion, solves complex problems, and offers meaningful advice and support.
• Ensuring High Quality: Engages in dialogue about quality, addresses issues promptly, and ensures continuous improvement.
• Managing Resources Effectively: Demonstrates accountability, stewards organizational resources, and makes data-driven decisions.
• Fostering Innovation: Generates new ideas, applies technology, and adapts to change.

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-term and long-term disability.
• Subsidized backup childcare.
• Inpatient nursing supplemental pay program.

About VUMC Nursing

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. Nursing at VUMC is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families, and communities reach excellent health and well-being. As a VUMC employee, you make a difference by bringing compassion and care to those in need of hope and healing.