RN - Inpatient Float Pool

Lexington Medical Center • SC

102d

About The Position

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care. Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first HeartCARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship. The role functions in a capacity that provides supplemental staffing to units as assigned, promoting and restoring patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients and families; supervising assigned team members. Responsibilities are carried out in accordance with the mission, vision, strategic imperatives and standards of the Lexington County Health District, American Nurses Association Standards and in accordance with the provisions/statutes set forth by the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing.
• Minimum Years of Experience: 3 Years of acute care experience, with at least 1 year of Critical Care or Intermediate Care experience in the past 5 years.
• Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina; Current certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (or within 6 months of hire into the role).

Responsibilities

• Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
• Provides emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals.
• Provides education to patient and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills.
• Serves as patient/family advocate.
• Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and ongoing needs.
• Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
• Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.
• Provides supplemental staffing to Medical Surgical or Critical Care Units as assigned.
• Maintains competencies in areas of specialty such as Medical Surgical areas or Critical Care.
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards.
• Measures health outcomes against patient care goals and standards.
• Makes or recommends necessary adjustments.
• Follows hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other governing agency regulations.
• Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies.
• Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient care systems and processes.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Documents all patient care activities accurately and timely.
• Provides safe, appropriate, quality of care and support to patients and family members.
• Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements.
• Demonstrates effective teamwork skills and maintains a cooperative relationship among health care teams.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications.
• Meets or exceeds all LMC requirements for attendance and service expectations.
• Maintains required certifications.
• Completes yearly safety training and other mandatory classes.
• Complies with all annual employee health requirements.
• Earns a minimum of 20 hours of continuing education annually within specialty.

Benefits

• Day ONE medical, dental and life insurance benefits.
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSAs).
• Employees are eligible for enrollment into the 403(b) match plan day one.
• Employer paid life insurance – equal to 1x salary.
• Employee may elect supplemental life insurance with low cost premiums up to 3x salary.
• Adoption assistance.
• Employer paid short-term disability and long-term disability coverage after 90 days of eligible employment.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Student loan forgiveness.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees