ED Float Pool RN

CommonSpirit Health; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 43,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Memorial is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to compassionate patient care. As a Registered Nurse on our Float/Flex Team, you will deliver high-quality care, perform assessments, and support a positive healing environment.

You will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to implement care plans, manage IV therapies and medication administration, and respond to changing patient needs with urgency and professionalism.

Qualifications

• Associate Of Nursing upon hire.
• Registered Nurse - TN upon hire.
• CPR upon hire.
• ACLS within 6 months.
• Preferred: BSN upon hire.
• PALS within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Diagnostic and patient monitoring with escalation for acute changes.
• Administer and monitor therapies, IVs, medications, safety, falls prevention.
• Manage rapidly changing situations by assessing and anticipating needs.
• Prioritize, coordinate, and meet multiple patient needs in a timely manner.
• Provide patient advocacy and maintain a therapeutic environment.
• Assess and explain patient conditions and readiness to learn.

Skills

Diagnostic and patient monitoring

Therapeutic interventions

Critical thinking

Patient advocacy

Team collaboration

Education

Associate of Nursing

Registered Nurse - TN

Bachelor of 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

• 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

We are an equal opportunity employer.