Registered Nurse - Medical Surgical

• 403(b)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Position Summary

Responsible for the delivery of nursing care within the assigned unit scope of practice following hospital policies and procedures, nursing process guidelines, standards of care, and standards of practice. Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 1. Assesses each assigned patient, documents, and evaluates their response to plan of care, and takes appropriate corrective action. 2. Plans and implements the patient’s plan of care/standard of care and provides patient teaching using the plan of care/standard of care. 3. Oversees all ancillary personnel for technical tasks. 4. Seeks to improve quality of service by continuously developing individual and unit competencies within scope of practice. 5. Integrates into practice the research of best practice benchmarking and clinical pathways. 6. Measures, identifies, and implements strategies to improve clinical practice outcomes and patient safety initiatives, and designs and monitors system nursing improvement plans. 7. Analyzes data to determine outcomes of infection prevention, nursing sensitive indicators, clinical effectiveness, standardization of processes, and patient safety measures and initiatives including AOA standards, CMS guidelines, and National Patient Safety goals. 8. Performs other related responsibilities as necessary.

Required

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Experience in specialty area will be considered. Experience specific to the unit/position may be required to maintain overall competency level of unit, as required by regulatory agency. Current State of Michigan Registered Nurse license. American Heart Association or American Red Cross BLS certification as Healthcare Provider. ACLS required within six months of hire.

Preferred

One year of professional nursing experience. TNCC and ENPC within one year for Emergency Department.