Memorial Health Looking for Registered Nurse, Acute Care/Swing Bed at Taylorville, IL Full Time

Overview
Responsible for delegation, supervision, and provision of evidenced-based nursing care for a designated group of patients through utilization of the nursing process. Provides age appropriate patient care. Provides age appropriate patient care. Implements evidence-based findings into practice and participates in research as appropriate.

Qualifications
Licensure/Certification/Registry:

• Current RN license in the State of Illinois required.
• Maintains Healthcare Provider BLS certification.
• ACLS Provider certification preferred.
• Maintain PEARS Provider certification. (Must obtain within 12 months of hire)

Experience:

• Meets credit range for Clinical Ladder levels as follows (12 months experience as a registered nurse is required in order to apply for promotion in the clinical ladder):
• Clinical Nurse I: Registered Nurse who achieves a range of 0-12 credits on the Clinical Ladder Behavior Grid. BSN preferred.
• Clinical Nurse II: Registered Nurse who achieves a range of 13-24 credits on the Clinical Ladder Behavior Grid with evidence of behaviors from at least two categories of the Grid. BSN preferred.
• Clinical Nurse III: Registered Nurse who achieves at least 25 credits on the Clinical Ladder Behavior Grid with evidence of behaviors from at least three categories on the Grid. BSN required

Other Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Attends all hospital/nurse manager specified mandatory in-services.
• Maintains competencies as identified in unit specific requirements.
• Completion of self-evaluation. It is the incumbent’s responsibility to submit to the nurse manager at annual evaluation time documentation to validate annual credentialing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Performs age appropriate assessments.
• Analyzes data to identify nursing problems.
• Provides direct patient care, develops individualized plan of care in partnership with patients & families. Evaluates patient progress toward attainment of goals, revising plan of care when indicated.
• Delegates patient care tasks to LPNs and unlicensed assistive personnel based on job description and patient needs.
• Appropriately supervises performance of LPNs and unlicensed assistive personnel.
• Builds teamwork when supervising and delegating to others.
• Documents patient care according to policies and procedures.
• Ensures appropriate implementation of physician’s orders.
• Precepts new nursing employees and/or nursing students.
• Identifies & resolves safety risks.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement, periodic review of policies, procedures and pre-printed physicians orders.
• Assists with educational activities for other staff on the nursing unit.
• Assures that department is survey-ready at all times.
• Performs other related work as required or requested.