RN - ICU, Nights

Piedmont Healthcare Inc.•Snellville, GA

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Piedmont Eastside is hiring a full-time night-shift Registered Nurse for its 24-bed Intensive Care Unit in Snellville, Georgia. The ICU cares for a varied critical-care population, including neurosurgical patients requiring EVD and lumbar drain management; cardiac patients requiring IABP or Impella support; STEMI and post-cardiac-arrest patients; patients receiving targeted temperature management; and patients with multiorgan dysfunction or failure requiring CRRT. Open-heart and trauma patients are excluded. Continuous educational opportunities support current, evidence-based practice, and critical care providers are onsite 24 hours a day. The team is supported by unit secretaries, registered nurses, charge nurses, a unit-based educator, and a clinical manager. The staff nurse provides nursing care across the patient lifecycle by assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care within organizational policies and procedures. The nurse maintains professional practice standards and accountability and coordinates assigned staff’s patient-care activities to provide quality nursing care. Piedmont describes a collaborative work environment with resources, leadership support, wellness programs, and opportunities for career growth. A sign-on bonus of up to $10,000 is available.

Requirements

Graduate of a nursing program.
New graduates of a nursing program are eligible.
Current Georgia Registered Nurse license or NLC/eNLC multistate license.
BLS certification required.
Previous ICU or high-acuity experience is highly preferred.
Nursing experience in a hospital setting is preferred.
Leadership skills, effective communication skills, initiative, independent judgment, and ability to handle stressful environments.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Advanced certification in the specialty, if applicable.
Previous ICU or high-acuity experience highly preferred.
Hospital nursing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Assess patients, including collecting physical, psychosocial, and health-history data.
Evaluate patients’ developmental ages when conducting assessments and treatments and providing patient and family education.
Organize patient data into a plan of care, identify additional information needed, make care decisions based on identified needs, and identify expected patient outcomes.
Carry out the plan of care to achieve desired patient outcomes.
Provide care appropriate to the setting, identified needs, plan of care, and severity of the patient’s condition.
Oversee the activities of ancillary and support team members.
Identify teaching opportunities and provide resources to meet patients’ educational goals.
Communicate issues and concerns to the charge nurse, clinical manager, and/or physician as appropriate.
Document patient care and concerns in the patient record.
Maintain standards of nursing practice, professional growth, and accountability, and coordinate assigned staff’s patient-care activities.

Benefits

Sign-on bonus available up to $10,000.
Competitive and equitable compensation.
Wellness programs for employees and families, including a 24/7 wellness coaching app.
Physician and nursing peer coaching.
Financial wellness planning and education.
Broad Employee Assistance Program services.
Flexible PTO, including combined PTO days and an opportunity for PTO cash-in.
100% paid maternity leave, requiring return to work.
Employer-paid military leave.
Diversity, Inclusion and Equity paid holiday.
Choice of medical and prescription drug plans.
Dental and vision coverage.
Adoption assistance.
Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent day care.
Health Reimbursement Account.
Fully paid long-term disability.
Basic life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage.