RN

About the role

As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery. You will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, make critical assessments, perform skilled procedures, and meticulously implement patient care plans while collaborating seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team focused on optimal patient outcomes. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, with a legacy dating back to 1891, operates 10 hospitals and nearly 300 care sites across the greater Puget Sound region, offering a full spectrum of services from routine wellness to complex disease management in modern, well‑equipped facilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans.
• Collaborate within an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient‑first mindset.
• Show a sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast‑paced environment.
• Adhere to department and hospital policies and procedures, including safety, risk management, and regulatory standards.
• Stay current with trends, developments, and regulatory requirements impacting the scope of responsibility.
• Administer, oversee, and document medication administration (topical, oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous, intravenous) as ordered and per hospital policy.
• Assess patient physical, psychosocial, cultural, behavioral/emotional, developmental, and spiritual needs; gather relevant data for care.
• Implement appropriate patient interventions and evaluate outcomes.
• Plan care based on needs identified during initial and ongoing assessments.
• Provide holistic, comprehensive, professional nursing care within the scope of practice.
• Prepare patients for discharge and assist with coordinating post‑discharge needs.
• Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and competence: use communication tools/materials effectively and understand how patient population cultures affect communication, collaboration, and care.
• Demonstrate knowledge and skills for the department’s defined patient populations served.
• Engage in professional growth opportunities and maintain self‑accountability to meet mandatory requirement deadlines.
• Document care and patient status using the nursing process per FHS standards (e.g., changes in condition, responses to intervention, reassessments).
• Receive and assure appropriateness, accuracy, timeliness, and execution of physician orders.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current Registered Nurse license in Washington (WA).
• Basic Life Support (BLS) – CPR certification.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification (to be obtained within 6 months of hire).

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
• One year of related work experience in an acute care setting.
• Intra‑Aortic Balloon Pump experience.
• Critical RN certification (Adult/Ne