RN - Innovations Unit - Straight Weekend

Sanford Health•Fargo, ND

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Sanford Health, the largest rural health system in the United States, is dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to world-class health care in America’s heartland. This role is within a 32-bed adult medical-surgical-trauma unit that tests new technologies and care models. Common diagnoses include post-op bariatrics and general surgeries, trauma, amputations, orthopedic traumas, sepsis, complex wounds, GI bleeds, cellulitis, and post-fall complications. It is a fast-paced unit with clinically complex patients. Sanford Health Fargo is North Dakota's ONLY Level 1 Trauma Center! The Innovation Unit was named a Top Innovation Program by Becker's Hospital Review! Innovation Projects include: virtual nursing, smart hospital beds, and electronic whiteboards. The Nurse-Patient Ratio is 1:4-5 on Days/Evenings and 1:5-6 on Nights. We welcome dynamic healthcare professionals that want to be part of a team on the cutting edge of inpatient nursing technology! NEW GRADS WELCOME!

Requirements

Graduate from an accredited nursing program required, including, but not limited to, American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), and National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA).
Currently holds an unencumbered RN license with the State Board of Nursing where the practice of nursing is occurring and/or possess multistate licensure if in a Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) state.
Obtains and subsequently maintains required department specific competencies and certifications.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree in nursing preferred.

Responsibilities

Utilizing the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes/planning, implementation and evaluation) to provide individualized nursing care to patients.
Collaborating with other inter-professional colleagues, including physicians, to plan, implement and evaluate care.
Demonstrating competency and practicing within the full scope of nursing expertise/knowledge and utilizing appropriate age and population specific standards as designated in their assigned clinical setting.
Caring for patients in all phases of preventative care, health maintenance, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up as patients move along the continuum of care.
Planning and coordination of care, patient assessment, patient education, triage, and various other nursing interventions.
Functioning within the scope and standards of nursing practice as outlined in the Nurse Practice Act and Administrative Rules in state of practice and licensure.
Recognizing the Scope and Standards of Practice and the Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements as published by the American Nurses Association as the foundation of nursing care delivery and professional conduct.