New Grad RN Float Pool FT Days 10K Sign On Bonus

ScionHealth•Watertown, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Watertown Regional Medical Center is seeking a Full-Time Registered Nurse (RN) to join their Float Pool team. This position involves working three 12-hour shifts from 0700 to 1900. As part of an acute-care hospital in southeastern Wisconsin, the facility has a reputation for high-quality care, earning national awards and accreditations. This role offers an opportunity for career growth in a hospital that prioritizes excellence and exceeds expectations.

Requirements

Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
Licensure in the practicing state as a Registered Professional Nurse (RN).
Proficient with computer systems.
Proficient with oral and written communication skills.
Must pass competencies for this position.

Nice To Haves

3-5 years hospital experience.

Responsibilities

Directing and coordinating all nursing care based on established clinical nursing practice standards.
Collaborating with other professional disciplines to ensure effective and efficient patient care delivery and achievement of desired patient outcomes.
Obtaining and maintaining competencies in med/surg, med/tel, ICU, ED, and postpartum/newborn care.
Accepting assignments to any area in which competencies are documented and assisting with nursing functions in any department or area of need.
Practicing nursing as described by the definition: “The diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential health alterations.”
Utilizing the nursing process in the provision of nursing care, including administering treatments and medications, interpreting diagnostic tests, formulating a plan of care, collaborating with other health care providers, and providing education to patients and/or significant others.
Collecting patient health data, determining the priority of data collection based on the patient’s immediate condition or needs, and collecting pertinent data using appropriate assessment techniques.
Involving the patient, significant others, and health care providers in data collection when appropriate, ensuring the data collection process is systematic and ongoing, and documenting relevant data in the medical record according to hospital standards.
Analyzing assessment data to determine diagnoses/patient problems, validating diagnoses/patient problems with the patient, significant other, and health care providers when possible, and documenting diagnoses/patient problems in a manner that facilitates the determination of expected outcomes and plan.
Identifying expected outcomes individualized to the patient, deriving outcomes from the diagnoses/patient problems, documenting outcomes as measurable goals, and formulating outcomes mutually with the patient and health care providers when possible.
Ensuring outcomes are realistic in relation to the patient’s present and potential capabilities, attainable in relation to resources available to the patient, include a time estimate for attainment, and provide direction for continuity of care.
Anticipating potential problem situations and intervening to offset any adverse impact.
Developing a plan of care that prescribes interventions to attain expected outcomes, individualizing the plan to the patient’s condition or need, developing the plan with the patient, significant others, and health care providers when appropriate, ensuring the plan reflects current nursing practice, and documenting the plan.
Providing continuity of care in the plan.
Implementing the interventions identified in the plan of care, establishing interventions that are consistent with the plan of care, implementing interventions in a safe and appropriate manner, and documenting interventions.
Evaluating the patient’s progress toward attainment of outcomes, ensuring evaluation is systematic and ongoing, documenting patient’s responses to interventions, evaluating the effectiveness of interventions in relation to outcomes, and utilizing ongoing assessment data to revise diagnoses/patient problems, outcomes, and the plan of care as needed.
Documenting revisions in diagnoses/patient problems, outcomes, and the plan of care.
Involving the patient, significant others, and health care providers in the evaluation process when appropriate.
Participating in quality-of-care activities as appropriate, including identification of aspects of care important for quality monitoring, identification of indicators used to monitor quality and effectiveness of nursing care, collection of data to monitor quality and effectiveness of nursing care, analysis of quality data to identify opportunities for improving care, formulation of recommendations to improve nursing care or patient outcomes, and implementation of activities to enhance the quality of nursing practice.
Utilizing the results of quality-of-care activities to initiate changes in practice.
Performing other duties as assigned.