Registered Nurse (RN) Observation Unit NEW

UP Health System - Marquette is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As an Observation RN joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier.

About the role

Enjoy the fast pace of the Emergency Department combined with the clinical depth of inpatient care. In our Observation Unit, you'll play a key role in monitoring patients, supporting timely clinical decisions, and helping guide them safely to the next step in their care—whether that's admission or discharge. It's a dynamic environment where your assessment skills, critical thinking, and teamwork make an immediate and meaningful impact.

Responsibilities

• Performs plan of care intervention, including medication administration, specimen collection, clinical treatments, as well as other medical care treatment.
• Documents patient care given.
• Works closely with providers to ensure patients meet observation criteria.
• Monitors patients for a period of 24-48 hours to assess their condition and determine if they need to be admitted as an inpatient or discharged.
• Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate to care team, physician, patient, and family.
• Assists patients with performing activities of daily living, including personal hygiene, elimination, nutrition, and ambulation.
• Collaborates as needed across disciplines to coordinate patient care, including patient transfer, discharge, referral and spiritual/psychosocial support needs.
• Evaluates learning needs of patient and/or family and provides patient/family education appropriate to age, culture, condition, and circumstances.
• Works as an advocate for the physical and emotional well-being of the patient.

Requirements

• Current Michigan RN license.
• Associate's degree from an accredited nursing school (bachelor's preferred).
• Basic Life Support Health Care Provider (BLS-HCP).
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) (preferred).

Benefits

In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers comprehensive benefits:

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

Pay

$7,500 Sign-On Bonus available to qualified applicants.

Schedule

• Full-Time | 0.75 FTE or 60 hours per pay period.
• 5 x 12-hour shifts, Days (7a-7p), Rotating Weekends and Holidays.

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About the employer

UP Health System - Marquette is a 222-bed hospital located in Marquette, Michigan, and is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network committed to making communities healthier with acute care, rehabilitation, and behavioral health facilities from coast to coast.