Registered Nurse - Med-Surg/Oncology
About The Position
Sentara RMH Medical Center is hiring a Registered Nurse for its 36-bed Medical Oncology unit, a medical-surgical and telemetry unit serving a diverse patient population that includes patients receiving oncology and chemotherapy care and end-of-life care. The team emphasizes compassionate, high-quality care, teamwork, support, and accountability. The position uses the EPIC electronic medical record, with RN ratios of 1:6 and support from a charge nurse and patient care technicians. New graduates are welcome to apply for many Registered Nurse roles. The posting states a starting pay rate of $36.00 per hour for new graduate registered nurses with less than one year of experience. The full-time hourly base pay range is $41.93 to $61.01; additional compensation may include shift differentials, on-call pay, overtime, shift premiums, extra-shift incentives, or bonuses. Compensation may vary based on qualifications, experience, location, market conditions, and business needs. The Registered Nurse provides competent nursing care using the nursing process and meets the standards of practice and professional performance. A 10-week Transition to Practice program supports orientation, knowledge development, and skill acquisition for Medical-Surgical practice. For new graduates, it begins a comprehensive six-month residency program. Program components include in-person learning, case studies, gaming, simulation, skills labs, exposure to Sentara policies and evidence-based practice guidelines, hands-on experience with a trained nurse preceptor, peer networking, and virtual professional-development sessions with mentoring. The professional-development sessions are optional for experienced nurses. The position is at Sentara RMH Medical Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The medical center is a 238-bed community hospital and Magnet-designated facility. The job is listed for the third (night) shift and offers flexible self-scheduling.
Requirements
- Associate's or bachelor's degree in nursing.
- Registered Nurse licensure.
- Previous acute-care experience is preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Previous acute-care experience.
- For new graduates, participation in the Transition to Practice and nurse residency program; the virtual professional-development sessions with mentoring are optional for experienced nurses.
Responsibilities
- Provide competent nursing care using the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care, teaching, health promotion, and evaluation.
- Meet professional nursing performance standards, including ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and nursing research, quality, evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health.
- Apply the clinical knowledge and skills required to meet standards in the specific clinical area.
Benefits
- Sign-on bonus up to $20,000 with no commitment.
- Flexible self-scheduling.
- Team-building activities.
- Professional growth opportunities at the unit, hospital, and system-wide level.
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Adoption, fertility, and surrogacy reimbursement up to $10,000.
- Paid time off and sick leave, including holidays.
- Paid parental and family caregiver leave.
- Emergency backup care.
- Long-term and short-term disability and critical illness plans.
- Life insurance.
- 401(k)/403(b) with employer match.
- Tuition assistance up to $5,250 per year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education.
- Student debt pay down up to $10,000.
- Pet insurance.
- Legal resources plan.
- Opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus, subject to system and employee eligibility criteria.
- Free and convenient parking.
- Employee assistance program available 24/7.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
