Registered Nurse Mother Baby NICU Full Time Nights Tullahoma 15K Sign on Bonus
About The Position
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), located in Nashville, Tennessee, is a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, committed to fostering an environment where individuals can thrive and their uniqueness is celebrated. VUMC's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research. The Registered Nurse in Mother Baby NICU is responsible for planning, organizing, and administering patient care within their scope of training and expertise, collaborating with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes, in accordance with hospital objectives and policies and the Nurse Practice Act of the State of Tennessee. VUMC's nursing philosophy emphasizes highly skilled and specialized nursing care as essential to its mission of quality in patient care, education, and research, viewing nursing as an applied art and science focused on helping people, families, and communities achieve excellent health and well-being. As the largest private employer in Middle Tennessee, with over 28,000 employees and more than 1,700 licensed hospital beds across multiple facilities, VUMC is dedicated to personalizing the patient experience through a caring spirit and distinctive capabilities, striving to be a world leader in advancing personalized health.
Requirements
- LIC-Registered Nurse - Licensure-Others
- Relevant Work Experience
- Less than 1 year of experience
- Graduate of an approved discipline specific program
- Possesses ample fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty in the home setting.
- Ability to work autonomously to provide safe, thorough and effective physician-ordered care in the home setting.
- Ability to conduct primary care patient interviews, assess the safety of the home environment and perform a comprehensive physical assessment.
- Demonstrates appropriate acumen to recognize problems, ask questions and to contact the patient's primary care provider.
- Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency in providing patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
- Ability to anticipate resource needs, identify distinct tasks, set priorities, schedule activities, meet deadlines, and organize work within areas of direct responsibility.
- Ability to competently handle multiple assignments often simultaneously by prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units.
- Ability to adapt to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
- Ability to follow up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
- Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully search for nutrition evidence to answer clinical questions.
- Ability to generally work under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.
Responsibilities
- Planning, organizing, and administering patient care within the scope of his/her training and expertise.
- Collaborating with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes is met.
- Collaborates in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the continuum.
- Analyzes comprehensive information pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine nursing diagnosis.
- Continually utilizes the nursing process to evaluate patient's progress towards goals and applies appropriate interventions to ensure effective outcomes.
- Employs strategies to promote health and a safe and healthy environment.
Benefits
- Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
- Dental and /or vision plan
- 403 (b) retirement plan
- Paid Time off (flex PTO)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Adoption assistance (maximums applied)
- Short-Long term disability
- Subsidized backup childcare
- Current inpatient nursing supplemental Pay Program!
- comprehensive benefits package which may include health, disability, retirement and/or wellness offerings
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
