Registered Nurse RN CVICU ICU

About the role

Nurses play a critical role in patient care. Nurses are the smiling face patients see when they’re sick; nurses advocate for the patient and their family. As part of the critical care nursing team, your primary focus will be to provide care for medical, surgical, and cardiovascular ICU patients. Patient care may include respiratory, renal, stroke, cardiac, multi-system failure, surgical patients, CABG, AVR, MVR, TAVR, Mitra clip, Hypothermia, Esophagectomy, CEA, thoracic surgery and AAA. You will be a part of the Boswell team noted for stroke care. You will gain specialized knowledge through detailed training to care for this specialty within critical care.

Responsibilities

• Assesses patient physical, psychological, social, spiritual, educational, developmental, cultural and discharge planning needs.
• Reviews patient history and physical with patient/family and assures completion within appropriate timeframe.
• Reviews available information obtained by other health care team members.
• Reviews diagnostics and laboratory data and reports abnormal results to the physician(s) and other appropriate caregivers.
• Completes assessment and reassessments according to patient need and as outlined in policy.
• Formulates a plan of care, including the discharge plan, utilizing assessment data and patient, family and health team input.
• Initiates a plan of care based on patient-specific needs, assessment data and the medical plan of care.
• Plans care in collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Reviews and revises the plan of care to reflect changing patient needs based on evaluation of the patient’s status.
• Implements the plan of care through direct patient care, coordination, delegation and supervision of the activities of the health care team.
• Provides care based on physician orders and the nursing plan of care, in compliance with policies and procedures, standards of care, and regulatory agency requirements.
• Delegates appropriately, and provides nursing supervision in the provision of care to patients by other licensed nurses and other personnel.
• Promotes continuity of care by accurately and completely communicating to other caregivers the status of patients for whom care is provided.
• Evaluates the patient's and family's response to care and teaching, and revises the plan of care as needed.
• Evaluates patient progress towards goals and expected outcomes in collaboration with other health care team members.
• Evaluates patient's response and the effectiveness of patient teaching.
• Documents assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation in the patient record.
• Provides care based on the best evidence available and may participate in research activities within clinical practice.
• Interacts and participates in the education, role development, and orientation of facility personnel, patients, students, families and visitors.
• Promotes/supports growth of others through precepting and mentoring when appropriate.
• Contributes to society through activities that lead to excellent patient outcomes through timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and safe care.
• Actively participates in the improvement of national nursing quality indicators and outcomes.
• Interacts with all levels of staff in a variety of departments, physicians, patients, families and external contacts concerning the health care of the patient.
• Synthesizes and prioritizes data from multiple sources to provide support for the human response of the patient and family to changes in health status.

Requirements

• Must possess a current, valid RN license in state of practice, temporary/interim RN license in state of practice, or compact RN licensure for current state of practice.
• BLS certification is required.
• Relates throughout the interview process the experience, training and education needed to perform the job.
• Experience in the clinical area for which he or she is applying is desired.
• Must maintain clinical performance competencies appropriate to the area in which they work as demonstrated through annual validations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Professional certification preferred.
• Additional Related Education And/or Experience Preferred.

Schedule

Hiring for PT Nights – Two 12 hour shifts weekly. You will also have the opportunity utilize our self-scheduling tool for shift and weekend coverage.

Benefits

Your pay and benefits are important components of your journey at Banner Health. Banner Health offers a variety of benefits to help you and your family. We provide health and financial security options so you can focus on being the best at what you do and enjoying your life.

Pay

Enjoy a flat rate $3/hour weekend shift differential.