RN | Concord Hospital Laconia Float Pool | Full Time Days

About the role

Concord Hospital-Laconia is seeking experienced RNs to join our RN Float Team. The float team offers you the opportunity to use your diverse clinical skills and competencies in a variety of acute care settings. This float team position will offer exposure to a variety of medical/surgical or critical care units across the hospital and provide you with an opportunity to further develop your skill base.

Education

• Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing
• BSN preferred

Certifications & Licensure

• Registered Nurse – New Hampshire Board of Nursing
• Basic Life Support – American Heart Association

Experience

• One year prior clinical nursing experience
• Evidence of experience working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team
• Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team

Responsibilities

• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs
• Develops, evaluates, and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs
• Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care
• Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer, or preparation for procedure/test
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care
• Administers medications to patients
• Provides direct patient care
• Leads the health care team
• Serves as a Resource Person for assigned shift
• Serves as a preceptor for new employees
• Performs job-specific requirements and other duties as assigned

Physical & Work Requirements

The physical demands and characteristics of the work environment described here are representative of those that will be encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification: MEDIUM
• Regularly lift, carry, or push/pull up to 10 pounds
• Frequently lift, carry, or push/pull 10–25 pounds
• Occasionally lift, carry, or push/pull 20–50 pounds
• Regularly required: fine motor, hearing, speaking, walking
• Frequently required: bending, reaching, sitting, squatting, standing
• Occasionally required: climbing, repetitive motion, kneeling, smelling
• Specific vision abilities: color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, peripheral vision
• Frequently exposed to: airborne pathogens, bloodborne pathogens, bodily fluids
• Occasionally exposed to: airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards (shock), moving mechanical parts, non-weather-related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, toxic or caustic chemicals
• Noise level: usually moderate