Float Pool RN
About The Position
As a Registered Nurse on the Float/Flex Team, you will deliver compassionate, high-quality, individualized care that supports patients’ well-being and recovery. The role involves making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and implementing patient care plans while collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to achieve optimal patient outcomes. The nurse is expected to maintain a positive attitude, reliability, keen assessment skills, critical thinking, a patient-first mindset, and a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment. The position includes monitoring patients and recognizing acute changes, administering and monitoring therapeutic interventions, managing rapidly changing situations, coordinating multiple patient needs, contributing to a healing environment, advocating for patients, and providing patient education and support.
Requirements
- Associate of Science in Nursing, upon hire.
- Registered Nurse license in Tennessee, upon hire.
- Basic Life Support (CPR), within 14 days.
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 months.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing, upon hire.
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 months.
Responsibilities
- Monitor patients, detect and recognize acute changes, and escalate concerns or critical results.
- Administer and monitor therapeutic interventions and regimens, including starting and maintaining intravenous therapies and administering medication according to patients’ rights.
- Prevent falls and skin breakdown and follow policies related to safety measures.
- Identify, assess, and anticipate needs in rapidly changing situations.
- Prioritize and coordinate care and meet multiple patient needs in a timely manner.
- Contribute to a healing environment by providing comfort and supporting human dignity.
- Serve as a patient advocate and build and maintain a therapeutic environment.
- Assess and evaluate patients’ readiness and ability to learn, and explain their condition and interpretation of their illness.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree
