UC Health·Cincinnati, Ohio
Provide nursing care for patients recovering from traumatic injuries and orthopedic surgeries, focusing on mobility and pain management. Monitor patient intake and outputs while delivering education within a Level 1 Adult Trauma Center environment.
UC Health is hiring a full time Registered Nurse (RN) for the ortho trauma department for the Night Shift, 7 PM-7:30 AM at University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
This 28-bed unit works with the patient population admitted from the ER, PACU, and SICU.
Nursing care is concentrated around recovering from traumatic injury with focus on mobility, patient education, monitoring intake and outputs and pain management.
This unit will also be working with ortho patients recovering from total knee, hip, and shoulder replacements as well as spinal surgery cases.
UCMC is the area’s only Adult Level 1 Trauma Center in the region.
Our patients arrive from injuries sustained by motor vehicle crashes, gunshot wounds and unforeseen accidents.
We provide treatment of patients with severe and multiple fractures throughout the body, non-healing fractures, bone infections and other complex conditions.
As part of the Clifton Campus of UC Health, Greater Cincinnati’s academic health system, University of Cincinnati Medical Center has served Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for nearly 200 years. Each year, hundreds of thousands of patients receive care from our world-renowned clinicians and care team. Our experts utilize the most advanced medical knowledge and technology available, providing a level of specialty and subspecialty medical care that is not available anywhere else in Greater Cincinnati.
UC Medical Center is also home to medical breakthroughs- our physician experts conduct basic, translational and clinical research, leading to new therapies and care protocols, and connecting patients to the latest and most advanced treatments. UC Medical Center houses Greater Cincinnati’s only Level I adult trauma center, which includes the right mix of specialist and medical resources available at a moment’s notice for a wide variety of the most complex medical conditions and injuries.
Requires an Associate Degree in Nursing (ASN) and a valid Ohio Registered Nurse license. BLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications are required based on department needs, though no prior experience is necessary.
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