RN /REGISTERED NURSE - CRITICAL CARE FLOAT POOL - Beebe Healthcare
Lewes, DE 19958
About the Job
Why Beebe? Become part of the Beebe team - an inclusive team positioned in a vibrant, coastal community. Enjoy a fulfilling career as you support the health of our patients and a team focused on excellence.
Join our Nursing Team and Cultivate your Career:
At Beebe, we care about your professional nursing path and want to foster the growth and development of your career. Whether you decide to further your education, gain professional certifications, learn a new specialty area, educate or lead – we support it all. We do so by offering a nursing graduate residency program, clinical ladder, professional certification reimbursement, certification preparation curriculums, generous tuition assistance, flexible scheduling and shared governance where you can help guide nursing professional practice and have a voice as a bedside nurse.
Benefits
In addition to competitive compensation and wellness benefits (medical, dental, vision and prescription) Beebe Healthcare also offers:
- Sign-on and Referral Bonuses for select positions
- Currently offering $10,000 Sign-on for RNs with a minimum of 2 years RN experience
- Receive an extra 15% on your base rate for being a float pool nurse!
- Tuition Assistance up to $5,000
- Paid Time Off
- Long Term Sick accrual
- Employer Contribution Plan
- Free Short and Long-Term Disability for Full Time employees
- Zero copay for drugs on prescription plan for certain conditions
- College Bound 529 Savings Plan
- Life Insurance
- Beebe Perks via WorkAdvantage
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Nurses in the Critical Care Float Pool will will provide care to intensive care and progressive care level patients at Beebe Healthcare. They are capable and trained to take care of high acuity patients and the most advanced therapies including post-operative cardiac surgical patients. Going to a different unit everyday gives them the opportunity to serve different patient populations, meet new people, and collaborate with interdisciplinary teams.
As a CCFP RN, you will provide knowledgeable/caring clinical practice and care coordination through an understanding of patients, families, nurses, and healthcare delivery teams. To help achieve our mission, you will consistently provide safe/therapeutic care in a holistic and systematic way while incorporating differences into the provision of care. Ensuring that all patient care activities and interactions are patient/family centered is of vital importance. Your ability to integrate knowledge, skills, and experiences to meet the needs of patients and families throughout the continuum of care, to include patient and family education, is expected.
The CCFP RN will work every other weekend. The program can grow, floating to the Emergency Department or Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).
Responsibilities:Responsibilities:
Duties and Responsibilities:
The duties and responsibilities listed below are intended to describe the general nature of work and are not intended to be an all-inclusive list. Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.
1. Performs nursing activities that create a compassionate, supportive, and therapeutic environment for patients and staff, with the aim of promoting comfort and healing and preventing unnecessary suffering.
2. Shows respect for patients/family dignity and privacy in all patient/family interactions. Establishes and maintains mutual trust within the nurse-patient/family relationship.
3. Assesses and identifies expected patient outcomes based on diagnosis, data, and patient's concerns.
4. Listens and acknowledges patients/family knowledge of self and engages their participation in care. Identifies cultural needs (i.e., language, etc.) to develop a care plan that enhances the health care experience. Recognizes patient/family rights through support of their informed decisions and advanced directives.
5. Develops and implements individualized outcomes-based care plans incorporating the patient and family's readiness and barrier to learning. Provides and coordinates health teaching which is required by individuals, families, and groups to maintain an optimal level of health.
6. Utilizes evidence-based interventions and treatments specific to the diagnosis or problem.
7. Documents per hospital and regulatory requirements/policies, all aspects of care, including but not limited to, treatments/procedures performed and patient response. Documents the implementation and any modifications, including changes or omissions, of the identified plan.
8. Performs procedures and treatments using nursing knowledge and judgment, according to established unit/practice area guidelines and professional standards.
9. Safely administers and assesses the patient response to medication utilizing essential knowledge of pharmacology and Hospital and Department Standards of Care.
10. Evaluates the effectiveness of the planned strategies in relation to patient responses and the attainment of expected outcomes including patient response and if desired outcomes have not been achieved.
12. Develops a comprehensive educational plan for the patient and family, utilizing appropriate resources and documents according to the department's documentation standards.
13. Participates in hospital and/or unit-based patient safety, quality improvement, clinical trials, and process improvement activities to support and improve patient outcomes. Activities may include data collection, analysis, and evaluation.
14. Provides leadership at the bedside as a delegator, collaborator, facilitator, and communicator.
15. Maintains a collaborative professional relationship with peers and colleagues to create a positive and professional work environment.
16. Supports collaboration with nursing colleagues and other disciplines to implement plan of care by participation in multidisciplinary rounds.
17. Delegates responsibilities to others with an understanding of their roles, knowledge, and capabilities.
18. Identifies and treats both internal and external customers with courtesy, respect, and caring behavior. Acknowledges cultural differences that exist among staff and patients.
19. Promotes a safe, clean, therapeutic environment for patients, families, and staff.
20. Presents self in a professional and calm manner. Assumes responsibility and ownership for professional conduct.
21. Completes all education to remain current with registrations, licenses, certifications, and unit/hospital mandatory requirements as appropriate to position or role.
22. Incorporates new knowledge and strategies to initiate change in nursing care practices.
23. May assume charge nurse functions in collaboration with unit leadership.
24. Precepts and mentors newly hired staff and nursing students.
25. Seeks out advanced certification and ongoing education opportunities.
26. Promotes unit and organizational growth through shared governance.
27. Attends and actively participates in staff meetings. Accepts responsibility for reading staff meeting minutes when not able to attend.
28.Demonstrates and understanding of Code, Fire, and Disaster plans.
Qualifications:Minimum Qualifications:
- 1 years of Intensive Care Nursing experience
- Telemetry/cardiac monitoring experience, able to independently interpret cardiac rhythms
- Excellent time management
- BLS
- ACLS
- NIHSS
- RN licensed, or eligible to practice in Delaware
- Proficient in English, strong verbal, and written communication skills.
- Associate degree in nursing
Preferred Qualifications:
- Critical Care Certification (CCRN)
- Bachelors or Master's Degree in Nursing
- Two or more years of Intensive Care Nursing experience
* Experience In Hospital Or Acute Care Setting
* Clear Communication Skills Both Written And Verbal
* Able To Keep Confidential Information Regarding Patients, Team Members
* Able To Withstand Crisis Situations
* Has Skills To Provides Customer Service To Patients, Team Members And Visitors
* Knowledge And Experience With Electronic Health Records
Credentials:
Essential:
* RN License
* ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
* BLS - Basic Life Saving certification
* NIH - Stroke Certification
* RN Diploma/RN Graduate Program
Other Information:
Skills & Abilities:
1. Ability to effectively communicate with patients, families, physicians, and healthcare team.
2. Knowledge and application of the nursing process to implement a nursing plan of care.
3. Possesses and applies the skills and knowledge necessary to provide care to patients throughout the life span, with consideration of aging processes, human development stages, and cultural patterns in each step of the care process.
4. Ability to provide care for a designated group of patients according to unit guidelines and hospital policies, procedures, and protocols.
5. Has the skills and knowledge to provide care to the age groups of the population served including: Knowledge of growth and development; ability to interpret age specific data and response to care; and provide age appropriate communication.
Starting at:USD $36.20/Hr.