Registered Nurse RN - Emergency Department - PT 3p-3a

Northeast Georgia Health System; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeast Georgia Health System is seeking an RN for the 12‑hour evening–morning shift. The candidate should be capable, with preferred specialty experience, and be prepared to provide direct patient care within an interdisciplinary team.

The role involves leadership responsibilities as a charge nurse, mentoring, and participation in councils to improve patient outcomes, engagement, and safety across units. For new graduates, focus is on clinical growth and safe care delivery.

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.
• Associate’s Degree, ADN or Diploma required
• At least 1 year of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

Responsibilities

• Serve as charge nurse and ensure quality, cost-effective patient care.
• Lead teams as part of daily practice and participate in unit committees.
• Coordinate care for assigned patients and collaborate with interdisciplinary team.

Skills

Charge nurse

Team leadership

Patient care

Communication

Clinical judgment

Education

ADN

Diploma in Nursing

Georgia RN licensure

BSN preferred

Job description

Job Category:

Nursing - Registered Nurse

Work Shift/Schedule:

12 Hr Evening - Morning

Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

About the Role:

Job Summary

Capable clinician with previous specialty experience preferred, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of complex patients. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning clinical bedside leadership role and seeks mentoring in this process. Participates as a member on PNGC councils and Nursing Quality Teams as appropriate. Actively participates on Unit Council helping with plans to improve NDNQI nursing sensitive indicators, RN Satisfaction, Employee Engagement, Culture of Safety, and Patient Experience data. Works together with other care team members to recruit and retain an excellent nursing care team. For the new graduate clinical RN: focuses primarily on developing knowledge and skills and showing growth in ability to care for increasingly complex patients. Responsible for providing direct and safe patient care based on the nursing process, and for coordinating care for assigned patients on a shift to promote the achievement of clinical outcomes. Requires consultation with more experienced clinicians and accepts feedback as a constructive professional development tool.

Minimum Job Qualifications

• Licensure or other certifications: Licensed to practice as an RN in Georgia.

• Educational Requirements: Associate’s Degree, ADN or Diploma required

• Minimum Experience: At least 1 year of RN experience – Demonstrated competence in RN I performance expectations or meets experience requirements upon hire

• Other:

Preferred Job Qualifications

• Preferred Licensure or other certifications:

• Preferred Educational Requirements: BSN

• Preferred Experience:

• Other:

Job Specific and Unique Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Delivery of safe, effective, efficient care that meets population specific guidelines
• Actively works to make own and related teams successful, effectively communicates with patients, families and colleagues at all levels, shows consideration and respect or others and fosters customer service
• Effectively prioritizes, recognizes problems, and utilizes evidence based practice
• Demonstrates personal mastery, leadership of self and others, as appropriate, delegates appropriately, and supports NGHS shared governance model
• Basic computer skills necessary to operate computer systems used on unit

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities

• Transformational Leadership, Demonstrates competence in RN II performance expectations in addition to:
  • Serves as a charge nurse and ensures appropriate patient care is provided in a cost-effective, quality-driven and patient-focused manner
  • Serves on teams and leads teams as a part of daily practice
  • Participates in 1 NGMC committee/council
  • Role models healthy work environment behaviors and practices that include fostering trust among co-workers, assuming good intent, and displaying empathy and support for one another

Physical Demands

• Weight Lifted: Up to 100 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Weight Carried: Up to 50 lbs, Occasionally 0-30% of time

• Vision: Moderate, Frequently 31-65% of time

• Kneeling/Stooping/Bending: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Standing/Walking: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Pushing/Pulling: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Intensity of Work: Frequently 31-65% of time

• Job Requires: Reading, Writing, Reasoning, Talking, Keyboarding

Working at NGHS means being part of something special: a team invested in you as a person, an employee, and in helping you reach your goals.

NGHS: Opportunities start here.

Northeast Georgia Health System is an Equal Opportunity Employer and will not tolerate discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, ethnicity, national origin, marital status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected classification or status.