Registered Nurse (RN) - ICU Float Pool - Days

About the role

Join the ICU Float Pool at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, where experienced RNs deliver high-quality, patient-centered care across multiple critical care units. This role offers variety, professional growth, and the opportunity to work with diverse patient populations while collaborating with highly skilled interdisciplinary teams in a leading academic medical center.

Responsibilities

• Engages in unit councils, professional governance, and quality initiatives to improve care processes and apply evidence-based practices.
• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, diagnose, implement, and evaluate nursing care, engaging patients and families through the continuum of care.
• Maintains accurate, timely EHR documentation.
• Maintains a safe environment for patients, families, and staff.
• May administer medications, treatments, and therapies safely and according to clinical protocols and procedures.
• Demonstrates effective communication, feedback, and conflict resolution, fostering team collaboration and appropriate delegation.
• Pursues professional development, completes required education, and maintains certifications.
• Adheres to the ANA Code of Ethics and practices ethical decision-making, respecting interdisciplinary roles, and contributing to integrated, unbiased patient care.
• Appropriately delegates to other Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel (i.e., nurse aides, credentialed medical assistants, etc.).
• Maintains accurate, timely EHR documentation.
• May be required to float to other units, departments, care areas, or facilities within the designated service area to meet patient care needs.

Requirements

• Education: Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program.
• Experience: 2 years of ICU nursing experience.
• Certification / Registration / License: Basic Life Support (BLS), Active, unrestricted registered nurse (RN) multi-state compact and/or single-state license with privileges to practice in the state(s) where the RN is providing client nursing services.

Qualifications

• Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: Strong clinical judgment and critical thinking, time management, prioritization and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, proficiency in operating computer functions (e.g., E-mail, electronic records, digital platforms etc.), clinical, aviation, maintenance, communications, and administrative departments.
• Physical Requirements: Must be able to sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, reach above shoulders, and twist frequently throughout the workday; lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies; push/pull with 30 lbs. of force and perform a sliding transfer of 150 lbs. with a second person present; have functional speech, vision, hearing, and touch with ability to use fine hand manipulation skills for IV insertion and other procedures/functions; maneuver foot pedals on carts or machines; perform physical safety interventions such as patient restraint and verbal de-escalation, if needed; may be exposed to chemical and hazardous waste as well as blood and body fluids and communicable disease; respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions.

Skills

• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures.

Benefits

Join Advocate Health and enjoy a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards, including:

• Compensation: Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training.
• Premium pay: such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job.
• Incentive pay for select positions.
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance.
• Benefits and more: Paid Time Off programs, Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses, Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave, Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs, Educational Assistance Program.

Pay

$38.20 - $57.30

Schedule

Three 12 hr shifts, 7a-7p, Weekend rotation required