Registered Nurse, Trauma Stepdown, Nights - VUH

About the role

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is a community dedicated to advancing health and wellness through teaching, discovery, and patient care. The 10S Trauma SD Cohort 10 position is located in Nashville, Tennessee.

Responsibilities

• Applies the nursing process to plan and implement the care of patients, including patient and family education and continuum of care planning.
• Effectively communicates pertinent patient/family information to the health care team.
• Collaborates in establishing patient goals and evaluates progress to ensure effective outcomes.
• Furthers professional growth by engaging in learning activities according to the Board of Nursing standards.

Requirements

• At least 1 year of RN experience
• Nursing degree
• State or Compact License (TN license within 60 days of getting TN address even if compact license)

Qualifications

• Collaborates in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the continuum.
• Analyzes comprehensive information pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine nursing diagnosis.
• Continually utilizes the nursing process to evaluate patient's progress towards goals and applies appropriate interventions to ensure effective outcomes.
• Employs strategies to promote health and a safe and healthy environment.

Skills

• Care Planning (Novice): Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify distinct tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility.
• Competent in handling multiple assignments often simultaneously by prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units.
• Able to adapt to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
• Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
• Nursing Patient Education (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency in providing patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Nursing Patient Assessment & Evaluation (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
• Conducts primary care patient interviews and physical examinations.
• Demonstrates sufficient acumen to recognize problems, ask questions and to contact the patient's primary care provider and other members of the healthcare team.
• Has experience in gathering pertinent clinical data that aid in referral, treatment, or other primary care pathways.
• Evidence-Based Practice (Novice): Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully search for evidence to answer clinical questions.

Benefits

• Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
• Dental and /or vision plan
• 403 (b) retirement plan
• Paid Time off (flex PTO)
• Tuition Reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied)
• Subsidized backup childcare
• And many more...

Pay

• Details of the pay program can be found here.

Schedule

• Three 12-hour shifts per week for a total of 36 hours per week to include some weekends.