RN Days Full Time PCU

About the Role

Join a community that believes in the wholeness of each person and serves to uplift others in body, mind, and spirit. This full-time, day-shift position offers a $20,000 sign-on bonus for eligible candidates and the opportunity to grow professionally through a Clinical Ladder Program with potential salary increases of up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive patient assessments through observation, interviews, and physical examinations to gather patient history and vital signs, identifying physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs.
• Develop and implement individualized care plans based on assessment data, setting specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals in collaboration with patients, families, and healthcare teams.
• Administer medications and treatments safely, including oral, intravenous, and intramuscular forms, and perform necessary medical procedures such as wound care, catheterization, and IV therapy, ensuring accurate and safe execution.
• Provide patient and family education about health conditions, treatments, and self-care practices, developing and delivering tailored educational materials and programs, and offering discharge instructions and follow-up care plans.
• Advocate for patient health and safety by acting as a liaison between patients and the healthcare system, protecting patient rights and confidentiality, and securing necessary resources to improve patient outcomes.
• Participate in performance improvement activities by engaging in unit-based quality improvement, evidence-based practice, and research initiatives, applying current healthcare research findings to expand clinical knowledge, and using quality measures to enhance performance and accountability for patient outcomes.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals, including doctors, therapists, social workers, and other healthcare providers, to ensure coordinated and comprehensive patient care, maintaining open and clear communication with all team members.
• Collect and analyze patient health data from patients, families, and healthcare providers using appropriate techniques and instruments, and prioritize patient needs based on their immediate condition and overall health status to ensure timely and effective care.
• Document patient care activities accurately and timely in medical records, including assessments, care plans, interventions, and patient responses, to ensure continuity and quality of care.
• Evaluate and adjust care plans by monitoring and documenting the effectiveness of care plans and interventions, making necessary adjustments based on ongoing patient assessments and feedback.
• Perform nursing procedures such as wound care, catheterization, and specimen collection, ensuring accurate and safe implementation.
• Ensure patient safety by adhering to established policies and procedures, maintaining a safe environment, and participating in bedside shift reports to ensure continuity of care and effective communication among healthcare team members.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree in Nursing (required)
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing (preferred)
• Registered Nurse (RN) license (required)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (required)
• 1+ years of prior hospital/acute care nursing experience (preferred)
• RN experience (required)
• Fluency in English (read, verbal, and written skills) (required)

Skills

• Administer all types of medications correctly per age group for all populations served according to policy.
• Demonstrate proficient technical skills and operational knowledge of all equipment used on the unit.
• Perform daily rotational task assignment as directed.
• Supervise Nursing Assistants in basic nursing functions (bed making, toileting, oral care, hair and nail care, baths, comfort measures) and demonstrate standard procedure for safe patient ambulation, transfers, and repositioning of bedfast/incontinent patients.
• Serve as a preceptor as necessary.
• Gather, assess, and reassess all populations served; perform primary assessment of newly admitted or transferred patients; complete care plans.
• Document and communicate patient data clearly and concisely; initiate and implement phone and verbal physician orders promptly and accurately; collaborate with healthcare team members including Assistant Nurse Manager, Charge RN, other RNs, and physicians under HIPAA and confidentiality policy.
• Collaborate on care plan input and establish priorities in planning, organizing, and implementing patient care based on nursing assessment, considering patient/family's psychosocial, cultural, and circumstantial situations.
• Evaluate patient response to nursing interventions.
• Demonstrate recognition of emergency codes, infection control, life safety, fire plan, age-specific safety concerns, proper body mechanics and ergonomics; implement measures to meet these needs in collaboration with the RN and supervise nursing assistant staff during these events.
• Understand Computerized Physician Order Entry process and proficiently use electronic medical record for retrieval of patient information.
• Monitor electronic medical record for new physician orders and diagnostic results.
• Provide necessary and appropriate education to patient and family from admission through discharge, including medical and nursing plan of care, medications, tests and procedures, disease process, and discharge instructions; document education provided including patient response and outcomes; initiate referrals to healthcare providers as necessary.

Benefits

• Benefits from Day One: Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Life Insurance, Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off from Day One
• 403-B Retirement Plan
• 4 Weeks 100% Paid Parental Leave
• Career Development
• Whole Person Well-being Resources
• Mental Health Resources and Support
• Pet Benefits

Pay

$31.75 - $55.47 per hour

Schedule

Full time, Day shift, 3 x 12-hour shifts