RN-Cardiac Stepdown-Registered Nurse

About the Role

This position accepts responsibility and accountability for delivering patient care with the multidisciplinary team while using the nursing process and maintaining professional nursing standards.

Responsibilities

• Assess and evaluate the patient’s physical, psychosocial, environmental, spiritual, social, and educational needs, and document patient/family responses to nursing interventions while collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to achieve desired patient care outcomes.
• Develop and implement the patient’s plan of care, including the discharge plan, based on standards of nursing practice, health center policy, and patient/family needs using clinical/critical thinking skills.
• Review and update the plan of care based on changes in the patient’s condition.
• Guide and direct patient care activities for the indicated population, utilizing clinical/critical thinking skills and evidence-based practice.
• Provide daily direction and guidance to Nurse Assistants.
• Provide, facilitate, and/or implement learning opportunities to meet the educational needs of patient/family by assessing learning needs and formulating and initiating a teaching plan.
• Effectively communicate pertinent patient changes/conditions to colleagues and multidisciplinary caregivers.

Requirements

• Current RN licensure in the state of Iowa, or qualified multi-state license required.
• Graduate of an accredited RN program required.
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.
• Previous experience in acute care preferred but not required; will train new RN graduates.
• Ability to work on multiple projects at one time and flexibility to meet department needs.

Benefits

• Education Assistance offered.
• Effective Day 1 Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, and more) for positions 16 hours per week or greater.
• Competitive wages; including weekend and night differentials.
• Generous paid time off program.
• Retirement Savings program with employer match starting on Day 1.

Schedule

Full-time, 36 hours weekly, 12-hour day shift.

About the Organization

MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center is a 342-bed regional referral teaching hospital in Mason City, Iowa, and MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center is an 11-bed rural access hospital in New Hampton, Iowa. The service area spans 15 counties across northern Iowa and southern Minnesota, serving a population of over 260,000.

With more than 3,000 colleagues and a medical staff of almost 500 physicians and allied health professionals, MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center is the largest employer in the region. MercyOne Medical Group – North Iowa is part of Iowa’s largest multispecialty clinic systems, with over 25 primary care, pediatric, internal medicine, and specialty clinics in north Iowa.