Inpatient RN - Day/Night Rotations, Elevate Care

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health; Lebanon (NH); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is seeking a Registered Nurse for Level 1 Wing C (L1WC) Medical Specialties. This full-time, 36-hour weekly day/night rotating position delivers evidence-based care on an inpatient medicine unit and emphasizes critical thinking, teamwork, and patient advocacy.

The RN will use the nursing process to assess and plan care, maintain safety, and participate in quality improvement efforts, with opportunities for professional growth on a collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited Nursing Program required.
• BSN with 1 year of experience.
• ADN prepared nurses with 2 years' experience.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes the nursing process to assess, diagnose, identify outcomes, plan, implement and evaluate an individualized plan of care.
• Utilizes critical thinking and the nursing process to anticipate and recognize changes in patient status, taking action to modify the plan of care or to elevate to the care team as necessary.
• Practices in accordance with the ANA Code of Ethics to advocate for patients, uphold their autonomy in decision-making, ensure informed consent and assist patients in families in expressing self-determination.
• Actively seeks feedback and acts to improve performance.
• Engages in the governance of practice.
• Manages interpersonal relationships for self and with others.
• Mentors colleagues for the advancement of nursing practice and the profession.
• Assumes authority and accountability for the nursing care of patients while appropriately delegating elements of care to others members of the care delivery team in accordance with laws, regulations and policies and procedures.
• Prioritizes and organizes time to optimize patient outcomes.
• Actively seeks out the most current evidence and standards and applies and translates to daily practice.
• Role models a culture of inquiry, developing new knowledge by contributing to research, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice at the local level.
• Transferor
• Communicates effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Actively partners with others to effect change that produces positive outcomes through the exchange of knowledge.
• Precepts the student nurse, nurse extern, nurse resident, experienced clinical nurse and other members of the healthcare team.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Skills

Nursing process

Critical thinking

Patient advocacy

Team collaboration

Mentoring colleagues

Education

BSN with 1 year experience

ADN with 2 years experience

Tools

BLS

ACLS (where applicable)

Job description

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health is seeking a Registered Nurse for Level 1 Wing C (L1WC) Medical Specialties. This full-time, 36-hour weekly day/night rotating position delivers evidence-based care on an inpatient medicine unit and emphasizes critical thinking, teamwork, and patient advocacy.

The RN will use the nursing process to assess and plan care, maintain safety, and participate in quality improvement efforts, with opportunities for professional growth on a collaborative team.