Registered Nurse - Critical Care Step Down - Full time - 3rd Shift

Valley Health System•Front Royal, VA

10h

About The Position

The Registered Nurse is responsible for using nursing skills to carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management. The role requires effective communication, teamwork, leadership, and professionalism. The nurse directs, coordinates, and implements patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel while maintaining professional nursing standards. A Registered Nurse II (RN II) provides care to the assigned patient population and completes annual mandatory competencies and unit-specific competencies identified by the Director or designee. RN II professional practice ladder requirements include assuming charge nurse responsibilities; participating in performance improvement activity and department initiatives; sharing information with the Director or designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education or seminars, conferences, workshops, or nursing articles; and submitting an up-to-date portfolio annually by March 1. The RN II routinely solicits and validates patient and family satisfaction, participates in unit peer review, and develops an educational bulletin board or poster for staff, patients, or family members. This position is in the Critical Care Step Down department and is full-time on the third shift. The stated pay range is $34.00–$48.87.

Requirements

Associate-level nursing education is required; an RN diploma, ASN, or ADN is accepted.
RN license required, or eligibility to practice pending licensure in the applicable state of work assignment (Virginia and/or West Virginia), with either a Nurse Licensure Compact multistate license or a single-state license valid in the applicable state.
American Heart Association-approved BLS (Basic Life Support) Healthcare Provider certification is required; new hires must obtain the appropriate AHA certification before completing orientation.
Advancement to RN II requires at least 1,872 full-time or part-time hours of RN experience, or 936 hours if the nurse holds a BSN, and completion of a performance evaluation.
Meet all requirements of a RN I.
Competence in providing care appropriate to the cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of human growth and development.
Competence in providing care using the nursing process.
Must have a reliable means of phone communication with the hospital.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Relevant specialty certification.

Responsibilities

Use the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.
Provide care to the assigned patient population and meet applicable professional nursing standards.
Maintain effective communication, teamwork, leadership, and professionalism.
Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel.
Complete annual mandatory and unit-specific competencies.
Assume charge nurse responsibilities and participate in performance improvement activity and department initiatives.
Share information with the Director or designee and coworkers from unit or hospital committees, paid education or seminars, conferences, workshops, or nursing articles.
Maintain and submit a current professional practice portfolio annually by March 1.
Routinely solicit and validate patient and family satisfaction.
Participate in unit peer review.
Develop an educational bulletin board or poster for staff, patients, or family members.