RN - ICU (Full Time, Nights) St. Vincent

Highmark Health•Erie, PA

About The Position

The Registered Nurse in the Intensive Care Unit assesses human responses and plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for assigned individuals and families. The nurse is fully responsible for actions taken as a licensed nurse and is accountable to patients for the quality of care delivered. The ICU is a 20-bed, busy medical/surgical unit that provides CRRT and AHN TeleICU services. Common diagnoses include pulmonary, GI, surgical, GU, postpartum, pregnancy over 20 weeks gestation, psychiatric, and renal conditions. The unit has received the silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. St. Vincent Hospital is a Magnet-designated hospital serving the Lake Erie region. This role provides professional nursing leadership, collaborates with an interdisciplinary team, supports patient safety and quality initiatives, and promotes compassionate, patient- and family-centered care. Employees must comply with applicable ethical, legal, privacy, and information-security standards and company policies.

Requirements

Current Pennsylvania RN license or current multistate licensure through the enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
Act 34 Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance Certificate.
Act 73 FBI Fingerprinting Criminal Background Clearance Certificate.
CPR certification.

Nice To Haves

Certification in the area of specialty.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership in a professional practice setting and contribute to team success through role modeling and mentoring.
Assign or delegate tasks according to patient needs and the skill levels of RNs, LPNs, and support staff; assign duties and lunches when serving in a charge role.
Consider a safe environment, patient condition, intervention complexity, and outcome predictability when assigning or performing care.
Provide peers with verbal and written feedback about clinical practice and role performance, and share knowledge and skills with colleagues.
Support a culture in which staff can acknowledge mistakes and take appropriate risks.
Participate in interdisciplinary evaluation of clinical care and health services.
Promote patient safety initiatives, participate in department-specific quality initiatives, and ensure appropriate order sets are used.
Supervise, delegate to, and evaluate assigned LPNs within their scope of practice, as appropriate.
Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized patient care in accordance with provider direction and hospital policy, including patient and family needs.
Develop culturally and age-appropriate expected outcomes with the patient, family, and other healthcare providers.
Analyze the health status of individuals and families against norms when possible to determine care needs.
Assess and document changes in patient condition, notify the physician or supervisor, and intervene appropriately.
Accept assignments outside the primary unit and perform duties within individual competency.
Pursue ongoing learning and professional development, using current research and evidence to maintain clinical and professional knowledge and skills.
Promote the nursing profession through participation in professional organizations and systematic peer review; seek feedback and identify development needs.
Meet hospital time and attendance guidelines.
Continuously assess patient and family satisfaction, participate in department-specific satisfaction initiatives, and address patient or family concerns.
Communicate compassionately and in a patient- and family-centered manner.
Use effective time management to complete assigned duties within the established work shift.
Protect confidential and covered information and comply with HIPAA, company privacy and information security policies, the Code of Business Conduct, and applicable laws and training requirements.