Registered Nurse - Nursing Float - Full time - Third Shift
About The Position
The Registered Nurse is responsible for effectively carrying out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management. The role requires quality 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 for the assigned patient population and completes annual mandatory and unit-specific competencies. The RN II also fulfills Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibilities, participating in performance improvement activities and department initiatives, sharing information with the Director/Designee and co-workers from unit or hospital committees and approved educational events or nursing articles, and maintaining an annual portfolio submitted by March 1. The RN II routinely solicits and validates patient and family satisfaction, participates in unit peer review, and develops educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.
Requirements
- Associate-level nursing education: RN Diploma, ASN, or ADN.
- RN license or eligibility to practice pending licensure as a Registered Nurse in Virginia, with either a Nurse Licensure Compact multistate license or a Virginia-only single-state license.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) Healthcare Provider certification; new hires must have appropriate AHA certification before completing orientation.
- Meet all requirements of an RN II.
- Competence to provide care appropriate to the cognitive, physical, emotional, and chronological stages of human growth and development.
- Competence to provide care using the nursing process.
- A reliable means of phone communication with the hospital.
- Advancement to this level requires at least 1,872 full-time or part-time RN experience hours, or 936 hours if the nurse holds a BSN, and completion of a performance evaluation.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
- Relevant specialty certification.
Responsibilities
- Carry out the nursing process, including assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, evaluation, documentation, and time management.
- Communicate effectively and demonstrate teamwork, leadership, and professionalism.
- Direct, coordinate, and implement patient teaching, quality and safety initiatives, and activities of other health team personnel.
- Provide care for the assigned patient population.
- Complete annual mandatory competencies and unit-specific competencies.
- Fulfill Professional Practice Ladder requirements, including assuming Charge Nurse responsibilities and participating in performance improvement activities and department initiatives.
- Share information with the Director/Designee and co-workers from unit or hospital committees, approved educational events, or nursing articles.
- Maintain a portfolio and submit it to the Director/Designee annually by March 1.
- Solicit and validate patient and family satisfaction.
- Participate in unit peer review.
- Develop educational bulletin-board or poster materials for staff, patients, or family members.
Benefits
- Zero-deductible health plan
- Dental and vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition assistance
- Retirement savings match
- Employee assistance program
- Healthy U incentive-based wellness program
- Health savings account
- Flexible spending account for childcare
- Life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development
- Discounts on on-campus dining
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
