About This Role
This night-shift post on the cardiac ward pairs patient care with mentoring new nurses. The Emergency Room Registered Nurse delivers exceptional nursing care, assessing patient status, determining priorities, and implementing clinical nursing interventions. The role involves developing and performing patient care plans to enhance outcomes and ensuring a safe, therapeutic environment.
Responsibilities
- Utilize strong organizational and leadership skills to assess patient status
- Determine the priority of the patient
- Implement clinical nursing interventions
- Have a highly diverse skillset
- Develop and perform patient care plans to enhance and improve outcomes
- Ensure a safe and therapeutic environment
- Collaborate with the interdisciplinary care team
- Care for groups of patients in a fast-paced, high intensity setting as part of an interprofessional team focused on achieving the best individual patient and population outcomes
- Evaluate, update, and revise the plan of care to facilitate achievement of planned and expected outcomes
- Serve as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments
- Provide care to a broad spectrum of patients ranging from short-stay to trauma
- Administer medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and the organization
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited Associate's degree or Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- Current state licensure as a Registered Nurse (RN)
- BLS Basic Life Support or ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support and PALS Pediatric Advanced Life Support (preferred at hire, must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care; ACLS and PALS required within 6 months of hire)
- One (1) year of professional experience practicing as a Registered Nurse (RN)
Nice to have:
- Recent Emergency Department or Critical Care experience
- EPIC Electronic Health Record training
Benefits
- Incentives
- Referral bonuses
- 403(b) with employer contributions (when eligible)
- Medical, dental, vision, prescription coverage, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, mental health resources and discounts
- Paid time off, parental and FMLA leave, short- and long-term disability, backup care for children and elders
- Tuition assistance, professional development and continuing education support
About the Company
As a faith-based and patient-focused organization, Mercy Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of all people in mind, body and spirit through exceptional patient care.
