RN Weekend Float Central Staffing, Full Time, Days

Huntsville Hospital Health System • Decatur, AL

20h • Onsite

About The Position

While demonstrating through behavior Decatur Morgan Hospital’s mission, vision and values, the Registered Nurse serves as a leader of the healthcare team at Decatur Morgan Hospital and the Huntsville Hospital Health System by establishing an authentic personalized relationship with the patient and their chosen support system, collaborating with physicians and other team members to assess, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care that promotes optimal health or supports a peaceful death. The RN utilizes the best scientific evidence and compassion to assist the patient in navigating their health journey. The RN accepts responsibility, authority and accountability for management and provision of care in accordance with the current policies and procedures. The HH Health System Float Pool provides an excellent opportunity for the RN to work throughout the entire System. Float RNs treat a diverse range of patients and enjoy a variety of work settings. The HH Health System Float RN demonstrates the ability to function as a registered nurse in medical surgical, intermediate care, intensive care, emergency care, and psychiatric care settings, adapt to change and new ways of working easily and with a cooperative spirit, and accept assignments up to 13 weeks in duration at any Huntsville Hospital Health System hospital.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Possesses a nursing license in good standing in the State of Alabama.
• 3 years of required acute care experience.
• Uses common sense and special medical skills to care for the sick.
• Understands technical information from supervisors, charts, reference books, manuals and labels.
• Uses eyes, ears, hands and fingers with skill.
• Acts quickly in an emergency, rendering appropriate life-saving measures.
• Communicates with people.
• Changes from one duty to another frequently.
• Follows and/or gives precise instructions.
• Records and interprets information accurately.
• Able to care for patients of all ages.
• Current in BLS.
• Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Deals with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Practical application of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion in addition to basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division abilities.
• Reading scientific and technical journals, abstracts, and financial reports.
• Records data via paper and electronic means.
• Communicates verbally using effective voice tone, diction and medical terminology.
• Gathers, compiles and classifies information about patients and other people.
• Analyzes and interprets data to carry out plan of care for the patient.
• Speaking, hearing, talking with people to convey or exchange information.
• Includes giving directions to staff, patients, families and/or visitors.
• Manual dexterity: Use of body members or special devices to work, and perform functions pertinent to accomplishment of job assignment.

Nice To Haves

• BSN preferred but not required.
• 5 years of preferred acute care experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a leader of the healthcare team.
• Establish authentic personalized relationships with patients and their support systems.
• Collaborate with physicians and other team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care.
• Promote optimal health or support a peaceful death.
• Utilize scientific evidence and compassion to assist patients in navigating their health journey.
• Accept responsibility, authority, and accountability for the management and provision of care.
• Assist the patient’s physical and psychological needs while preserving dignity.
• Communicate with patients, support persons, other health professionals, and the community.
• Identify patient problems and communicate them verbally or in writing to the health team.
• Help patients learn about their health and necessary healthcare procedures.
• Assess patient learning needs and readiness to learn, set learning goals, enact teaching strategies, and measure learning.
• Act as a patient advocate, protecting the patient's needs and wishes.
• Assist patients in exercising their rights and speaking up for themselves.
• Provide emotional, intellectual, and psychological support to help patients recognize and cope with stressful problems.
• Act as a change agent to assist patients in modifying their behavior.
• Make changes in a system, such as clinical care.
• Influence others to work together to accomplish a specific goal at various levels (individual patient, family, groups of patients, colleagues, community).
• Use research to improve patient care.
• Have awareness of the process and language of research.
• Participate in the identification of significant researchable problems.
• Be a perceptive consumer of research findings.
• Collaborate with the healthcare team.
• Ensure the health, well-being, and safety of patients across the life span and in all settings.
• Function as a registered nurse in medical surgical, intermediate care, intensive care, emergency care, and psychiatric care settings.
• Adapt to change and new ways of working easily and with a cooperative spirit.
• Accept assignments up to 13 weeks in duration at any Huntsville Hospital Health System hospital.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level