RN - ICU, Days

Piedmont Healthcare•Snellville, GA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Piedmont Eastside in Snellville, Georgia is hiring a full-time ICU staff nurse for its 24-bed Intensive Care Unit. The unit cares for a wide range of critically ill patients, including neurosurgical patients requiring EVD or 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 cases are excluded. The unit provides 24-hour onsite support from Critical Care Providers and ongoing educational opportunities to support current, evidence-based care. The staff nurse assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for patients throughout the lifecycle, working within organizational policies and procedures. The role maintains professional standards and accountability, coordinates care activities of assigned staff, and contributes to quality patient care. The position works in a collaborative team supported by unit secretaries, nurses, charge nurses, a unit-based educator, and a clinical manager.

Requirements

Graduate from a recognized, accredited school of nursing.
Current Georgia Registered Nurse license or NLC/eNLC multistate license.
Basic Life Support (BCLS) certification.
Previous ICU or high-acuity experience is highly preferred.
Effective leadership and communication skills.
Initiative and independent judgment.
Ability to handle stressful environments.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Nursing experience in a hospital setting.
Advanced certification in the specialty, if applicable.

Responsibilities

Assess patients, including collecting information about their physical and psychosocial condition and health history.
Consider patients’ developmental ages when conducting assessments, providing treatments, and delivering 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 outcomes.
Carry out the plan of care to achieve desired patient outcomes.
Provide care suited to the clinical setting, identified needs, plan of care, and severity of the patient’s condition.
Oversee activities of ancillary and support team members.
Identify teaching opportunities and provide resources needed to meet patient education 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, coordinate assigned staff’s patient-care activities, and demonstrate professional growth and accountability.

Benefits

Sign-on bonus available up to $5,000.
Competitive and equitable compensation.
Wellness programs for employees and families, including a 24/7 wellness coaching app, physician and nursing peer coaching, and financial wellness planning and education.
Broad Employee Assistance Program services.
PTO with combined days for greater flexibility and an opportunity for PTO cash-in.
100% paid maternity leave, subject to a return-to-work requirement.
Employer-paid military leave.
Paid holiday benefits.
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 and dismemberment coverage.