RN | Float Pool

Monument Health•Rapid City, SD

51d•$35 - $44•Onsite

About The Position

The Float Pool RN provides relationship-centered, compassionate, quality nursing care across multiple nursing departments and patient care settings, filling workforce gaps through short- or long-term assignments. The role independently uses the nursing process to assess patients, identify diagnoses and expected outcomes, plan and implement care, and evaluate progress in accordance with ANA standards, organizational policies, and applicable laws and regulations. The nurse provides high-level clinical care, including assessments, procedures, treatments, care-plan development and revision, and education for patients and families. Guidance and supervision are based on leader and self-assessments of opportunities for skill enhancement. The Float Pool RN contributes to the prevention or resolution of illness, disability, and injury; alleviates suffering; and advocates for patients in collaboration with interdisciplinary healthcare providers, families, and support systems. The role supports Monument Health’s purpose, vision, and values and practices within the legal scope of a Registered Professional Nurse.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing.
Registered Nurse (RN) certification through the South Dakota Board of Nursing.
Basic Life Support (BLS) certification from the American Heart Association within 60 days of hire or transfer.
Ability to work assigned schedules and hours as determined by the department.
Ability to provide nursing care across multiple assigned specialty units.
Very heavy physical work: exerting over 25 pounds of force constantly, more than 50 pounds frequently, or more than 100 pounds occasionally or seldomly to move objects.
Possible exposure to radiation and frequent exposure to contaminated needles and infectious body substances.

Nice To Haves

Five or more years of Registered Nurse experience.

Responsibilities

Provide holistic and age-specific care to patients and families across the lifespan and across assigned specialty units.
Recognize changes in patients’ physiological, psychological, cultural, developmental, and spiritual needs.
Collect comprehensive health and situation data, analyze it to determine diagnoses or issues, and identify expected outcomes.
Develop individualized care plans, implement them, support patient progression, and evaluate progress toward outcomes.
Coordinate care delivery and use health teaching and health-promotion strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Follow ANA Standards of Professional Nursing Practice and Standards of Professional Performance, the Code of Ethics for Nurses, organizational policies, and applicable laws and regulations.
Enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice, maintain current knowledge and competency, and evaluate personal practice against professional standards and guidelines.
Contribute to the professional development of peers and colleagues, including training, educating, and precepting nursing students.
Collaborate with patients, families, and others in nursing practice; integrate ethical provisions and research findings into practice; and consider safety, effectiveness, cost, and impact when planning and delivering nursing services.
Provide leadership in the professional practice setting and practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
Use applicable technology and software to support and document nursing activities and patient care and to access work-related applications.
Seek opportunities to improve patient-care quality through innovative and creative problem-solving.
Perform other duties as assigned and work schedules and hours determined by the department.