Registered Nurse RN - Heart Failure Intermediate Care Unit - Full Time Nights

Job Category

Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule

12 Hr Evening - Morning

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

About the role

Department overview

Patients on this unit include

• Hemodynamically stable heart failure patients with pulmonary artery (PA) catheter or CVP monitoring
• Patients with acute decompensated heart failure without shock
• Acute decompensated heart failure patients with stable respiration on chronic bipap or acute need for bipap
• Pre and post cardiac catheterization patients
• Pre and Post cardiac intervention patients, including pacemaker insertions and ICD implantations. Interventional peripheral and renal angioplasty patients requiring sheath care and removal
• Patients who have a Left Ventricular Assistive Device (LVAD) and are hemodynamically stable.
• (LVAD) post-implantation surgical patients
• Patients with a venous or arterial sheath requiring care, monitoring and removal
• Pre-op open-heart surgical patients
• Patients receiving treatment of cardiac arrhythmia and hypotension including critical drips such as antiarrhythmic medications, and vasopressors
• Patients receiving pre and post electrophysiology procedure care

Earn Up to $15,000 Sign-On Bonus!

Experienced RNs, join our team in an acute care setting and receive up to a $15,000 sign-on bonus!

We value your expertise and are here to support your success. Apply now and advance your nursing career with us!

Bonus and relocation terms apply.

Job summary

MINIMUM JOB QUALIFICATIONS • Licensure or other certifications

• Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Educational
• Requirements: Associate's Degree, ADN or Diploma required
• Minimum
• Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire
• Other:

PREFERRED JOB QUALIFICATIONS • Preferred Licensure or other certifications

• BSN
• Preferred
• Educational
• Requirements:
• Preferred
• Experience:
• Other:

• Job specific and unique knowledge, skills and abilities
• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service
• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

• Essential tasks and responsibilities
• Transformational Leadership
• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance.
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility
• Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum
• Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization
• Exemplary Professional Practice
• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
• Demonstrates initiative and seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
• Effectively delegates care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• Incorporates Sister Simone Roach’s 7 Cs of Caring: Ctheory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice
• New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement
• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice
• Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management.
• Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
• Ensures improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility for self-development in life-long learning.
• Serves as a resource for students
• Structural Empowerment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS • Weight Lifted

• Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
• Weight
• Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time
• Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time
• Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time
• Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time
• Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time
• Intensity of
• Work: Frequently 31-65% of time
• Job
• Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

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Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.