Registered Nurse - Nursing Facility - Full time - Varied Shifts

About the role

As one of the nation's Top 15 Health Systems, recognized by Premier and Modern Healthcare, Valley Health is a place where excellence, compassion, and purpose come together. This distinction reflects our commitment to exceptional patient care, clinical quality, and the caregivers who make it all possible.

Responsibilities

• Utilize nursing skills to carry out the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.
• Ensure quality communication, teamwork, and leadership/professionalism.
• Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality/safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel while maintaining professional nursing standards.
• Provide care for the assigned patient population as a Registered Nurse II (RN II).
• Complete yearly mandatory competencies, unit‑specific competencies identified by the Director/Designee, and Professional Practice Ladder requirements (including serving as Charge Nurse, participating in PI activities and department initiatives, communicating information to leadership and peers, completing Valley Health‑paid education/seminars/conferences or nursing articles, and submitting an annual portfolio by March 1).
• Routinely solicit and validate patient/family satisfaction, participate in peer review, and develop educational bulletin boards or posters for staff, patients, and families.

Education

• Associate’s degree in Nursing (RN Diploma, ASN, or ADN) required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (BSN) preferred.

Experience

Advancement to RN II requires a minimum of 1,872 full‑time or part‑time hours of RN experience (936 hours if holding a BSN) and completion of a performance evaluation.

Certification & Licensure

• Current Registered Nurse licensure required; must be licensed or eligible to practice pending licensure in Virginia and/or West Virginia according to state Board of Nursing regulations.
• Multi‑state license under the Nurse Licensure Compact accepted.
• BLS Certification (Basic Life Support) – American Heart Association Healthcare Provider (HCP) – AHA‑approved required.
• New hires must possess the appropriate AHA certification before orientation completion.
• Relevant specialty certification preferred.

Qualifications

• Meets all requirements of a RN I.
• Competent to provide care based on cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of human growth and development.
• Competent to provide care using the nursing process.
• Must have a reliable means of phone communication with the hospital.

Benefits

• Zero‑Deductible Health Plan
• Dental and