Registered Nurse Surgical Intermediate Full Time Nights
About The Position
The Staff Nurse Inpatient is a clinically competent, registered professional nurse who prescribes, delegates, and coordinates nursing care for acutely ill patients through assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. The nurse interacts effectively with patients, significant others, and other health team members while maintaining ANA standards of professional nursing practice and Northwestern Medicine policies and standards. The position is on a 26-bed unit providing treatment and care for adult patients with acute medical, surgical, and cardiac conditions, with a focus on complicated surgeries. Patients may include those recovering from esophagectomies, Whipple procedures, surgical oncology cases, high-volume liposuction, multilevel spinal fusions, and vascular cases. The unit also cares for surgical patients requiring medication drips that are not appropriate for a medical-surgical inpatient unit, as well as medical step-down and overflow patients. The ideal nurse-to-patient ratio for step-down care is 1:3–4. This is a full-time night position, 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 a.m., with rotating weekends. The schedule is 36 hours per week (0.9 FTE).
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- Current State of Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to collaborate with others.
- Strong analytic abilities.
- An Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) is acceptable with a commitment to obtain a BSN from an accredited program within three years of the first day of employment in a clinical nurse role.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Surgical Stepdown.
Responsibilities
- Collect and analyze data, identify expected outcomes, develop and implement individualized plans, coordinate care delivery, and evaluate progress toward outcomes.
- Direct care and determine the appropriate utilization of assistants involved in providing direct patient care.
- Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff; create a documented, outcome-focused plan that records communications and care-delivery decisions.
- Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects.
- Evaluate and document patient responses to nursing interventions in the health record and individualize the plan of care based on evaluation findings.
- Use the best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Loan forgiveness
- 401(k) matching
- Lifecycle benefits
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Job Type
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