Premium Pay $75/hr Registered Nurse, Trauma Stepdown, Night Shift, TempForce - VUH

Vanderbilt University Medical Center•Nashville, TN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Nursing Strategic Programs, through the Vanderbilt Medical Center Staffing Collaborative, is seeking Registered Nurses for 13-week assignments within specific units. This role offers an alternative nursing employment structure, similar to travel nursing, providing premium pay and optional health benefits. The Staffing Collaborative aims to fulfill critical scheduling needs across the organization, with assignments potentially requiring work on weekends and holidays. Minimum requirements align with full-time staff expectations for each unit. This is a temporary, full-time position focused on covering shifts most needed by the unit.

Requirements

Registered Nurse Required
Graduate of an approved discipline-specific program (or equivalent experience)
1 year of Trauma Stepdown RN experience
Registered Nurse
BLS, ACLS, and PALS

Nice To Haves

Preferred 2 or more years of recent Trauma Stepdown RN experience

Responsibilities

Applies the nursing process to plan and manage the care of complex patients in a comprehensive manner.
Recognizes complex learning needs and prepares individual teaching plans for patients/families and consistently demonstrates effective patient education to peers.
Ensures a comprehensive continuum of care plan in collaboration with the health care team.
Demonstrates and role models effective communication and conflict resolution skills.
Ensures evidence-based care and continuously monitors patient outcomes.
Furthers professional growth by engaging in learning activities according to Board of Nursing standards.
Floats across entities to fulfill requirements of the role.
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.
Anticipates resource needs, identifies distinct tasks, sets priorities, schedules activities, meets deadlines, and organizes work within areas of direct responsibility.
Handles multiple assignments often simultaneously by prioritizing work into manageable and measurable units.
Adapts to changes to patient care and area needs with minimal disruption and loss of productivity.
Follows up to assure problems and issues are resolved.
Provides patient education in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Assesses and evaluates patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty.
Conducts primary care patient interviews and physical examinations.
Recognizes problems, asks questions, and contacts the patient's primary care provider and other members of the healthcare team.
Gathers pertinent clinical data that aids in referral, treatment, or other primary care pathways.
Searches for evidence to answer clinical questions, generally under the direction of others.
Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
Provides informal guidance and support to team members.
Invests time, energy, and enthusiasm in developing self/others to help improve performance and gain knowledge in new areas.
Maintains regular contact with key colleagues and stakeholders using formal and informal opportunities to expand and strengthen relationships.
Recognizes group interactions and modifies one's own communication style to suit different situations and audiences.
Seeks to understand current and future needs of relevant stakeholders and customizes services to better address them.
Approaches problems from different angles; Identifies new possibilities to interpret opportunities and develop concrete solutions.
Provides ongoing support and coaching in a constructive manner to increase employees' effectiveness.
Engages regularly in formal and informal dialogue about quality; directly addresses quality issues promptly.
Applies various learning experiences by looking beyond symptoms to uncover underlying causes of problems and identifies ways to resolve them.
Understands all aspects of providing a safe environment and performs routine safety checks to prevent safety hazards from occurring.
Demonstrates a sense of ownership, focusing on and driving critical issues to closure.
Applies understanding of the departmental work to effectively manage resources for a department/area.
Demonstrates strong understanding of the information or data to identify and elevate opportunities.
Proactively identifies new ideas/opportunities from multiple sources or methods to improve processes beyond conventional approaches.
Demonstrates an enthusiasm for learning new technologies, tools, and procedures to address short-term challenges.
Views difficult situations and/or problems as opportunities for improvement; actively embraces change instead of emphasizing negative elements.