The RN Neuro role is based on 4 South, a 44-bed Progressive Neurosurgical unit at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids. The unit cares for general neurology and neurosurgical patients, including complex cases. Neurosurgical care includes spine surgery, craniotomy and craniectomy for brain tumor resection, removal or debulking, and elective aneurysm interventions. General neurology patients include people experiencing acute stroke, seizures, chronic headaches, and neurological disorders such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, multiple sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis exacerbations. The nurse delivers accountable nursing care consistent with American Nurses Association (ANA) standards and Michigan law, applying the nursing process: assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The role upholds professional performance standards, pursues optimal patient outcomes, and practices in a manner that includes ethical and culturally congruent care, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence-based practice and research, quality of practice, professional practice evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health.
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Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
Associate degree