RN Clinical Nurse IV - Cardiac Intermediate Care

About the role

Become part of an inclusive organization with over 40,000 teammates, whose mission is to improve the health and well-being of the unique communities we serve. Join a Leading Cardiac Care Team – Make a Lasting Impact

Responsibilities

• Serves as nursing Team Leader.
• Provides education, training, and oversight to assigned nursing staff.
• Evaluates patient progress and revises plan accordingly.
• Ensures appropriate care and services are available to patients, clients and families for assigned shift.
• Facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration in patient/client care planning to achieve desired patient outcomes.
• Coordinates care with interdisciplinary team members.
• Demonstrates and role models clinical expertise in specified patient population and shares expertise with other staff.
• Assesses and anticipates patient and family learning needs and organizes resources to ensure that they are met.
• Performs bedside point of care testing as required for patient care plan.
• Creates and promotes an environment conducive to recruiting and retaining staff.
• Provides feedback to Manager/Supervisor and Director to assist in hiring, promoting, transferring and terminating staff.
• Models and promotes behaviors that effectively give continual feedback to staff and colleagues.
• Integrates best practice standards regarding retention of staff in all aspects of practice.
• Synthesizes data from complex situations to determine priorities for care.
• Includes appropriate physical, psychosocial and educational needs.
• Synthesizes assessment data into meaningful whole prior to communication with others.
• Assesses and anticipates discharge needs of individual patients and families.
• Develops relationships with families that promote their ability to advocate for the patient and their own needs.
• Works with manager to demonstrate specialization needs to serve the patient population.
• Establishes and promotes standards of excellence for areas of responsibility and ensures consistent implementation by staff.
• Provides input about trends related to program development, space needs and fiscal realities.
• Ensures appropriate and adequate clinical staffing and skill mix to meet patient care needs on own shift and upcoming shift.
• Effectively uses clinical and financial information to assist Nurse Manager to establish and meet budgetary goals.
• Collaborates with Nurse Manager to implement strategies to increase revenue and cost-effectively manage personnel, supply and equipment resources.
• Evaluates the impact of strategic fiscal changes on quality outcomes.
• Affords feedback to staff and colleagues.
• Shares knowledge with colleagues through publication, presentations or other means.
• Develops, implements and evaluates new and creative approaches to meeting goals.
• Leads, participates and promotes performance improvement initiatives that focus on identified patient safety or quality of care opportunities.

Requirements

• Graduate of Accredited Nursing Program.
• Bachelor's degree (BSN) required.
• NC RN Licensure and BCLS.
• Professional certification relevant to the practice area and on the ANCC Magnet approved list within the probationary period of employment.
• Minimum of one year experience working as a licensed RN.

Qualifications

• Committed to high-quality care.
• Prior experience in Cardiac Intermediate Care setting.
• Leadership experience.

Skills

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret clinical information and technical procedures.
• Ability to document clinical information.
• Ability to effectively communicate information and respond to questions from patients, physicians, family members, and other Rex staff.
• Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.

Benefits

Includes up to $20,000 commitment incentive or up to $25,000 tuition loan forgiveness. In addition, this position is also eligible for up to $10,000 in relocation assistance (based on location) and our employee referral program.

Pay

$38.13 - $58.24 per hour (Hiring Range)

Schedule

Night Job