Registered Nurse (RN) – Neuro Intensive Care 5 SE – St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital

About the role

Mercy Health offers a sign-on bonus of $7,500 for experienced RNs in the ICU. Higher pay scales, flexible schedules, referral bonus programs, paid time off, excellent health benefits, unlimited tuition reimbursement through Guild Education, and a strong commitment to patient care make Mercy Health a great place to work.

Responsibilities

• Conducts and analyzes initial and ongoing patient assessment, creates a plan of care, implements treatment, and evaluates treatment effectiveness.
• Administers medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures.
• Serves as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments.
• Acts as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department and collaborating with spiritual care, palliative, and ethics when needed.
• Serves as a point person for care coordination for family members or caregivers.
• Performs nursing care associated with life supporting technology/modalities may include but not limited to: ventilator management, CRRT, IABP, Impella, ECMO.
• Performs hemodynamic monitoring.
• Clinically manages critically ill patients with multi-system organ failure and/or multisystem trauma.
• Uses the AACN Synergy Model to restore, support, promote, rehabilitate, or palliate to maintain the physiologic, psychologic, and psychosocial stability of patients across the lifespan.
• Synthesizes and prioritizes information in order to take immediate and decisive evidence-based, patient-focused action using clinical judgement and clinical inquiry.
• Anticipates and responds with confidence and adapts to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Responds to the unique needs of the patients and families coping with unanticipated illness or injury and treatment and advocate for their choices in quality of life.

Requirements

• Current RN license in state they are working or covered by compact (required).
• BLS Basic Life Support or ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred at hire, must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care, ACLS required within 6 months of hire); PALS Pediatric Advanced Life Support (preferred).
• TNCC Trauma Nursing Core Course (preferred).
• CCRN Critical Care Registered Nurse (preferred).
• PCCN Progressive Care Certified Nurse (preferred).
• RN-BC Registered Nurse - Board Certified (preferred).
• TCRN Trauma Certified Registered Nurse (preferred).
• National Institute of Health (NIH) Stroke Certification (preferred).

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science Nursing (preferred).
• 1 year of RN experience (required).
• 6 months RN experience in a Med/Surg, Critical Care, Stepdown, or Emergency Department Unit (preferred).
• EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training (preferred).
• Critical Care Course (preferred).

Skills

• Assigns patient care according to the nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff.
• Orients, facilitates learning experience, and provides education (based upon quality improvement indicators, outcomes, and implementation) to nursing staff and others.
• Possesses clinical knowledge, skills, and competency to provide evidence-based patient care in accordance with the current standards of practice, policy and procedure, and BSMH mission.
• Absesses patient's physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and patient outcomes; revises plan of care accordingly.
• Assists patient and family in coping with patient's illness.
• Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients and their support resources.
• Recognizes own limitations and seeks assistance and acquires information to perform safely.
• Advances personal and professional growth through participation in educational programs, current literature, in-services, and workshops.
• Exhibits professionalism through accountability for own and delegated actions.
• Integrates cost-effective measures into practice and models effective stewardship of available resources.
• Practices self-care and cultivates resilience in conflict and difficult circumstances.
• Protects the safety and privacy of all persons.
• Understands and utilizes office and clinical technologies.
• Communicates with patients in a manner they can understand considering their personal preferences.
• Compassionate, relationship-based approach to help find meaning in illness, suffering, pain, and existence.
• Remains calm, adaptive, and collective during an emergency.
• Assists with insertion intra-aortic balloon pumps, chest tubes, and impellas.
• Affirms patients through hemodynamic monitoring.
• Assists with insertion of transvenous pacing/temporary pacing.
• Administers means for conscious sedation.
• Knows advanced respiratory modalities.
• Manages nursing care of the patient with a Swan-Ganz catheter.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, incentives, referral bonuses and 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible).
• Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, mental health resources and discounts.
• Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders.
• Tuition assistance, professional development and continuing education support.