SUPPORT NURSE - NURSE FLOAT POOL

Aspirus Health•Duluth, MN

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Aspirus St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, is seeking a Support Nurse to join its Nurse Float Pool. The Support Nurse applies professional nursing-care knowledge as defined by the Minnesota Board of Nursing and Aspirus St. Luke’s policies. The role plans, delegates to, and organizes nursing personnel; coordinates information among patients, families, and healthcare team members; provides education to patients, families, and staff; and evaluates outcomes. The Support Nurse provides individualized patient care and supports staff RNs with clinical skills and patient-care tasks. At the direction of the Administrative Nursing Supervisor, the nurse collaborates with the care team to facilitate patient flow and throughput, including admissions, transfers, and discharges. The role requires flexibility to respond to emergencies, provide staff relief and lunch breaks, and perform rounding. This is a part-time position at 0.80 FTE (64 hours biweekly), with an evening/night rotation and a general shift time of 8:00 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. The position generally does not require weekends. The salary range is $45.02–$68.87 per hour.

Requirements

At least three years of recent step-down/intermediate care, cardiac care, or ICU nursing experience.
Current Minnesota license to practice as a Registered Nurse.
Current ACLS certification, or ability to obtain it before the end of orientation.
Successful completion of orientation, including assigned ECG and Critical Care modules as determined by the Nurse Manager and Critical Care Educator.
BLS Provider or Healthcare Provider certification from the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, or Military Training Network.
Knowledge of current nursing-practice principles and techniques, the nursing process, and physical assessment.
Ability to function as a team leader, primary nurse, and role model; accept responsibility and accountability; communicate effectively and establish professional working relationships; recognize the legal limits of nursing practice; and maintain competency through continuing education and independent study.
Ability to support St. Luke’s goals and objectives.
Intermediate writing, speaking, mathematical, and reasoning abilities.
Ability to assess patients and apply knowledge of growth and development, providing care appropriate to the ages served in the clinical environment.
Knowledge of stroke signs and symptoms and when to activate a Stroke Alert; ability to provide stroke-specific assessments and interventions.
Ability to stand, bend, kneel, walk, and lift up to 50 pounds; the role also involves extensive standing and walking, patient lifting and transfers, reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling, and crouching.

Nice To Haves

Previous Critical Care nursing experience.
PALS certification.
TNCC certification or equivalent.
Experience caring for patients with IABP, Impella, and postoperative cardiovascular surgery needs.

Responsibilities

Apply professional nursing-care knowledge in accordance with Minnesota Board of Nursing requirements and Aspirus St. Luke’s policies.
Plan, delegate to, and organize nursing personnel.
Coordinate information between patients, families, and healthcare team members.
Provide education to patients, families, and staff, and evaluate outcomes.
Provide individualized nursing care to patients.
Support staff RNs with clinical skills and patient-care tasks.
At the direction of the Administrative Nursing Supervisor, collaborate with the care team to facilitate patient flow, including admissions, transfers, and discharges.
Adapt assignments to support emergencies, staff relief, lunch breaks, and rounding.
Provide age-appropriate care and perform stroke-specific assessments and interventions, including dysphagia screening, neurologic assessments, and TPA administration when applicable.
Handle emergency or crisis situations and may perform emergency care.