Registered Nurse (RN), ICU DH, Nights

About the Role

Provides professional care and assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. Provides care to these patients utilizing the nursing process in collaboration with other health care team members.

Responsibilities

• Performs assessments in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiologic, psychological, and cognitive status.
• Formulates a goal-directed plan of care which is prioritized and based on determined nursing diagnosis and patient outcomes.
• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent, and continuous manner.
• Establishes priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available resources.
• Evaluates effectiveness of care given and patient progression toward outcomes.
• Identifies patient's/significant other's learning needs and implements appropriate measures to meet them.
• Coordinates interdisciplinary functions.
• Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Current State of CT RN license.
• BLS certification required.
• Minimum six months of ICU experience, and/or cardio thoracic ICU and/or 2 years of Stepdown Unit experience.

Skills

• Nursing certification (desired)
• BSN (desired)

Schedule

36 control hours, 7:00pm-7:30am, weekends and holidays as contracted.

Pay

Hourly Range: $46.30 - $67.77

Location: Danbury-24 Hospital Ave | Work Type: Full-Time Standard Hours: 36.00 | Work Schedule: Evening Night 12 | Department: ICU | Exempt: No

Working conditions: Significant manual skills / motor coord & finger dexterity, significant occupational risk, very heavy effort (may exert up to 50 lbs. force), significant exposure to dirt, odor, noise, human waste, etc.