ICU/ Facility Float/ Registered Nurse / RN

Emory Healthcare•Atlanta, GA

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Emory Healthcare is seeking experienced and passionate critical care nurses for its ICU/ Facility Float pool. This role provides clinical resources across various patient care departments within an EHC operating unit/facility. The position requires a capable clinician with broad experience in patient care and a sound understanding of specific patient populations. The nurse will apply the Synergy Model for Care, personalize patient care, and serve as a resource to less experienced staff. Responsibilities include demonstrating thorough knowledge of therapeutic patient care, patient advocacy, clinical pathways, team dynamics, and hospital systems. The role involves prioritizing nursing interventions, identifying complex patient problems, ensuring continuity of care, coordinating diagnostic procedures, and anticipating patient crises. The nurse may participate in quality improvement efforts, function as a Charge Nurse, make patient care assignments, and document all aspects of patient care. Participation in new staff orientation and precepting is also expected.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
Valid, active unencumbered nursing license or temporary permit approved by the Georgia Licensing Board.
24 months of recent nursing experience within the past five years.

Responsibilities

Provide clinical resources in a variety of patient care departments throughout an EHC operating unit/facility.
Apply the Synergy Model for Care in practice and personalize care for each patient/family.
Serve as a resource to lesser experienced nurses and support staff.
Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of therapeutic patient care, patient advocacy, clinical pathways/care maps, team dynamics, and hospital systems.
Prioritize nursing interventions for assigned group of patients.
Identify complex patient problems related to symptoms, behavioral changes, abnormal diagnostic data and learning needs.
Ensure continuity of care.
Coordinate diagnostic procedures.
Anticipate potential patient crises through continual evaluation of patient outcomes.
May participate in quality improvement efforts.
May function in the Charge Nurse role and make patient care assignments.
Thoroughly document all aspects of patient care, following established charting procedures.
Participate in orientation of new staff and may serve as a preceptor.