ED Float Pool Nurse

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join its Float/Flex Team. You will provide compassionate, high-quality care, perform thorough assessments, and implement individualized care plans in a fast-paced hospital setting.

Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, you will monitor patients, administer treatments safely, manage IV therapy, and advocate for patient rights while supporting recovery and professional growth.

Qualifications

• ADN and TN RN license required.
• CPR certification upon hire.
• ACLS required within 6 months.
• PALS within 6 months preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive patient care with thorough assessments.
• Perform skilled procedures and manage intravenous therapies.
• Administer medications safely per policy and patient rights.
• Monitor patients and respond to acute changes; escalate when needed.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary team to improve outcomes.
• Support patient comfort, advocacy, and education.

Skills

Assessment skills

Critical thinking

Patient care

Team collaboration

Patient advocacy

Education

Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)

Basic Life Support - CPR

Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)

Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As a Registered Nurse (RN) on our Float/Flex Team, you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery while presenting a positive attitude and being reliable,

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• Diagnostic and patient monitoring (detection and recognition of acute changes and escalation or concerns/critical results).
• Administration and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens (starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients’ rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown and following policies in relation to safety measures).
• Effective management of rapidly changing situations (identifying, assessing and anticipating needs).
• Organization and work rule competencies (prioritizing, coordination and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner).
• Helping Role (consistently contribute to a healing environment, providing patient comfort and support for human dignity, serving as a patient advocate and building and maintaining a therapeutic environment).
• Teaching-Coaching Function (assess and evaluates the patient’s readiness and ability to learn, effectively explains a patient’s condition and their interpretation of his or her illness).

Job Requirements

Required

• Associate Of Nursing, upon hire
• Registered Nurse: TN, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 6 - months

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing, upon hire
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, within 6 - months

Where You'll Work

CommonSpirit Memorial is an award-winning, not-for-profit, faith-based health care organization dedicated to the healing ministry of Jesus Christ. Founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, we offer a comprehensive continuum of care, from preventative and primary care to acute hospital services specializing in cancer, cardiac, neuroscience, stroke, and orthopedic services. Our commitment to excellence has earned us top prestigious recognition repeatedly from U.S. News and World Report, PINC AI™, CMS, Healthgrades®, Leapfrog, and most recently as one of the Best Places to Work in Tennessee. We are proud to serve Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia with the expertise of 4,700 employees and nearly 500 affiliated physicians.

Pay Range

$30.76 - $45.76 /hour