Registered Nurse (RN) - Float Pool (Will Consider New Grads)

Ebenezer; Maplewood (MN); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a dedicated Registered Nurse for their Float Pool at a hospital in Maplewood. This exciting role involves providing care across various units, including Cardiac Telemetry, Med/Surg, and Oncology, ensuring that every day offers new challenges and experiences. The ideal candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment, demonstrating exceptional problem-solving skills and a commitment to patient-centered care. Join a team that values innovation and collaboration, where your contributions will directly impact the quality of care provided to the community. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your nursing career and make a difference in the lives of patients.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a focus on patient care and problem-solving.
• Must have a degree in nursing and RN license.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive patient assessments and coordinate care plans.
• Float between various units including Cardiac Telemetry and Med/Surg.

Skills

Patient Care

Problem Solving

Communication

Flexibility

Education

Degree in Nursing

BSN degree

Tools

Basic Life Support Certification

Job description

Job Overview

Fairview Health Services is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) on the Float Pool at the St. John’s Hospital located in Maplewood, MN.

This position is eligible for an additional $2/hour augmentation.

The Float Pool RN will take full care assignments and float to a variety of units including Cardiac Telemetry, Med/Surg, Orthopedics, Oncology, and more! This unique department is a specialty group that supports patient care throughout the hospital. Are you ready for every day to be different and exciting with a wide range of patient population experiences? Come join our team today!

St. John’s Hospital offers a warm, inviting atmosphere and caring, personal staff. Innovative technology, combined with the expertise of our specialists, nurses, and staff, contributes to our innovative healing environment and meticulous health care delivery. We are committed to delivering outstanding health care to our growing community. Our 184-bed facility offers a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic services.

About Fairview:

Fairview Health Services is an industry-leading, award-winning nonprofit that offers an entire network of healthcare services. Fairview is one part of M Health Fairview, a partnership between the University of Minnesota, M Physicians, and Fairview Health Services. Together, we combine the University’s deep history of clinical innovation and training with Fairview’s extensive roots in community medicine. Our care portfolio includes community hospitals, academic hospitals, primary and specialty care clinics, senior facilities, facilitated living centers, rehabilitation centers, home health care services, counseling, pharmacies, and benefit management services.

Apply today to join our 34,000+ employees and 5,000+ system providers working to build lasting relationships with the people we serve: our patients, our communities, and each other.

Schedule: This position will be working 0.7 FTE (48 hours every two weeks). The shift length will be 8 hours on the NIGHT shift, variable schedule with an every other weekend rotation and a holiday rotation.

Fairview offers a nurse residency program for eligible new graduate RNs taking this role with the organization! Read more about this opportunity here: Nurse Residency Program

About Our Float Pool Department at St. John’s Hospital:

• Our team is prepared to work in a variety of clinical environments, where every day is different and exciting!
• You will primarily be floating into our Cardiac Tele unit, where you will provide care to a variety of cardiac patients, including those recovering from cardiac procedures such as post open-heart transplant, coronary bypass surgeries, stent placements, and more!
• You will also float to General Med/Surg, Orthopedics, and Oncology.
• Orientation is based in the Medical Surgical units. You will float to each unit with a preceptor, and your overall orientation time, as well as your unit-specific orientation time, will be determined by your level of experience.
• There is an option to train to specialty areas such as ER, ICU, and MCC after 6 months.
• This position would include a variety of duties including telemonitoring, IV therapies, care for postoperative/medical surgical patients, accessing port-a-caths, PICCs, and feeding tubes.
• There is an opportunity to obtain various certifications including Med/Surg, Ortho, and Chemo.
• We are looking for someone who will excel in a fast-paced environment, someone who knows how to problem solve, who is flexible and willing to learn, and who is dedicated to always putting the patient first.

The RN serves as the key leader of the interdependent team and is responsible for achieving patient and unit outcomes by coordinating the care for a group of patients. This includes: comprehensive assessment of patient and family needs; identification of outcomes based on the needs assessment; establishing the plan of care; monitoring the progress; and modification of the plan of care as needed.

• Demonstrates dedication to principles of the patient care model (Professional Partnership Model) and achieving the HealthEast nursing vision and strategy.
• Applies the nursing process, including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation, to coordinate outcome-focused patient care. Throughout this process, also understands and incorporates comprehensive nursing theory based on Watson's Theory of Caring aligning with the practice standards of the American Holistic Nurses' Association whenever comprehensive therapy is offered.
• Communicates effectively with patient/family, physicians, the care team, and other fields regarding the plan of care.
• Assesses and documents learning needs of the patient and family. Develops an individualized education plan for patients and families based on identified needs.
• Actively participates in creating and implementing improvements at the point of care to achieve clinical quality, customer experience, nursing engagement, and efficiency and effectiveness outcomes.
• Aligns with regulatory requirements, accreditation standards, board of nursing requirements, patient safety requirements, infection control practices, and other established practice standards, policies, guidelines, and procedures.
• Coordinates the interdependent team while promoting collaborative teamwork and cooperation.
• Actively participates in the development and achievement of department goals (safety, cost, quality, patient experience, employee engagement).
• Maintains knowledge of, and aligns with, all relevant laws, regulations, policies, procedures, and standards.
• Actively participates in creating and implementing improvements.

Required Qualifications:

• Basic Life Support Through Health Care Providers.
• Degree in Nursing.
• RN License.
• Will Consider New Grads.

Preferred qualifications:

• Telemetry experience.
• BSN degree.