Registered Nurse (RN) | Orthopedic Trauma Unit

Position Highlights

This position may be eligible for a Sign On Bonus up to $15,000!

What Makes Orthopedics Special?

• Safe Patient Ratios: 1 nursing professional: 4-5 patients
• Zero tolerance for workplace violence
• Positive Work Environment
• Career Growth Opportunities
• Educational Simulation
• RN Committee Membership
• Professional Achievement Program
• Ledership Development
• In-Unit Massage Chair for all Ortho staff!!!

Work Schedule

Registered Nurse - 7a-7:30p, 7p-7:30a (every 3rd weekend & holiday); varied shifts between days/nights
$3 SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL is available for hours worked between 7p and 7a, $2 on weekends, and $5 on weekend nights!!!

Job Highlights

If you are a nurse that…
- Wants to know they are practicing in a safe work environment
- Looking for a teamwork focused environment
- Desires complexity and diversity in the cares you offer your patient-load

Brief Overview

Delivers Nursing Care by developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends to understand patient conditions, medications, and self-care skills; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives.

What You Will Do

• Provides patient care by reviewing physician prescriptions; communicating the nursing care plan and all pertinent information to other members of the health care team; coordinating with other healthcare providers; providing physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, families, and friends; conferring with physicians.
• Develops nursing care plans by obtaining medical histories; examining patients; documenting patient physical condition, psychological status, and influencing social factors; conferring with family and friends; developing a nursing diagnosis; establishing nursing care objectives; defining nursing interventions, schedules, and timetables.
• Teaches healthcare requirements by establishing patient care goals; instructing patient, family, and friends to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions; providing information and resources.
• Evaluates patient care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care standards; reviewing patient records; noting changing conditions and needs; re-evaluating care objectives; modifying nursing care plan.
• Documents patient care services by charting in patient and department records.
• Keeps patient care equipment operating by following operating instructions and established procedures; troubleshooting breakdowns; maintaining supplies; performing preventive maintenance; calling for repairs.
• Keeps patient care supplies ready by checking stock; anticipating needs; placing and expediting orders; verifying receipt; stocking items.
• Maintains competence in nursing capabilities outlined by leadership.

Essential Qualifications

• The individual must be able to work the hours specified.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily including having visual acuity adequate to perform position duties and the ability to communicate effectively with others, hear, understand and distinguish speech and other sounds.