Registered Nurse - Emergency Services

McLaren Health Care; Bay City (MI); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care in Michigan seeks a nurse leader to collaborate with physicians to plan care and return patients to optimal health, delivering bedside nursing and overseeing support staff.

You will lead a team to integrate evidence-based practice, delegate and coordinate nursing tasks, participate in patient conferences, and guide discharge planning while mentoring new staff.

Schedule: Full-time, 7:00pm–7:30am; McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with Michigan license
• BLS certification from AHA or Red Cross
• ACLS within 6 months of hire/transfer
• Basic Neuroscience course completed within first 6 months
• Basic Dysrhythmia course completed
• TNCC within 1 year of hire/transfer
• ENPC within 2 years of hire/transfer

Responsibilities

• Integrating evidence-based knowledge into practice
• Delegation and coordination of nursing tasks
• Facilitates/participates in patient conferences
• Meets discharge/transfer teaching needs and plans accordingly
• Pursues professional education opportunities
• Teaches and guides professional and ancillary personnel
• Precepts/mentors new employees and students
• Leads team to ensure proper patient placement and assignments

Skills

Leadership

Delegation

Team coordination

Education

Licensed to practice nursing in Michigan

BLS certification (American Heart Association / Red Cross)

ACLS within 6 months of hire

Basic Neuroscience course

Basic Dysrhythmia course

TNCC within 1 year

ENPC within 2 years

Job description

The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals across the state, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 730-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 242,000 Michigan lives, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network, and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 93,000 network providers throughout Michigan.

Position Summary

Collaborates with physician to provide a plan of care that will return the patient to optimal health. Provides bedside nursing care and carries out medical orders. Delegates to and oversees Nurse Assistant, Patient Care Associate, OB Care Associate, Surgical Service Assistant, Nursing Clerk and Psychiatric Tech functions. Responsible for evaluating effectiveness of care plan.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

Assumes responsibility for a leadership role encompassing:

• Integrating evidence-based knowledge into practice.
• Delegation and coordination of tasks and assignments of nursing care.
• Facilitates/participates in patient conferences.
• Identifies and provides the means to meet patients’ ongoing and discharge/transfer teaching needs by communicating with the appropriate resource persons and attending discharge/transfer planning conferences.
• Assumes the responsibility for professional growth by seeking out educational opportunities and utilizing programs in the hospital or elsewherein the community.
• Teaches and/or guides professional and ancillary personnel.
• Precepts/mentors new employees and students.
• Functions as a team leader to ensure proper patient placement and delegation of assignments.

Required

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing and holding a current license to practice in the state of Michigan.
• BLS issued by American Heart Association or Red Cross Certification.
• Must satisfactorily complete ACLS course and Basic Neuroscience course; required within first 6 months of hire/transfer
• Must satisfactorily complete first available Basic Dysrhythmia course
• Must complete TNCC (Trauma Nurse Certification) within one (1) year of hire/transfer
• Must complete ENPC within two (2) years of hire/transfer

Preferred

• Six (6) months experience in an acute care setting or equivalent
• Critical Care Nurse preferred

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Daily Work Times: 7:00pm - 7:30am
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employmentwithout regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status,national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classificationprotected by law.