Registered Nurse RN - General Surgical - PT Days

20 Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc.; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Northeast Georgia Health System is seeking a Registered Nurse for the General Surgery unit. The role involves providing safe, patient‑centered care in a busy 32‑bed unit with specialized procedures and equipment, including negative pressure rooms and bariatric lifts.

Eligible candidates must hold Georgia RN licensure and an ADN/ASN or diploma, with at least 1 year of RN experience. Strong teamwork, communication, and commitment to excellence are essential as you participate in multidisciplinary

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

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to: delivers safe, effective and patient‑centered care.
• Serves as a highly engaged member of the care team, collaborating with colleagues and communicating clearly with patients and families.
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility to meet patient needs and unit priorities

Skills

RN licensure

RN experience

Education

Associate's Degree / ADN or Diploma

Job description

Job Category: Nursing - Registered Nurse Work Shift/Schedule: 12 Hr Morning - Evening Northeast Georgia Health System is rooted in a foundation of improving the health of our communities.

About the Role

Job Summary General Surgery is a 32-bed nursing unit with four equipped with negative pressure and 2 with bariatric ceiling lifts.

Care is rendered to patients with a variety of specialties including, but not limited to:

• Bariatric Surgery including Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve, Duodenal Switch, and Revisional cases
• Urology diagnosis and procedures
• Oncology
• Gynecology surgery
• General Surgery including major bowel procedures
• Vascular surgery procedures
• Plastic Surgery including skin grafts, flaps and reconstructive surgery
• Podiatry
• Other medical and surgical patients in times of high census

Nurses provide care and monitoring for patients with IV patient-controlled analgesia.

• nephrostomy tubes
• continuous bladder irrigations
• biliary drains
• Jackson Pratt drains
• Constavac drains
• epidurals
• chest tubes
• tracheostomy tubes
• and peritoneal dialysis

Nurses who have completed competencies may access and de-access Portacaths, and perform negative pressure wound dressing changes.

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

Preferred Job Qualifications

Other: Preferred Job Qualifications Preferred Licensure or other certifications: BSN Preferred Educational Requirements: 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

Essential Tasks and Responsibilities

Transformational Leadership

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Serves as a highly engaged and full partner on the care team and responds willingly to care team member needs for assistance.
• Adapts to change and demonstrates flexibility.
• Leads interdisciplinary rounds to facilitate appropriateness of care and smooth transitions across the continuum.
• Positively impacts the work environment by displaying respect for individuals and the organization.

Exemplary Professional Practice

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Effectively applies the nursing process within the framework of the organization’s professional model of care, using the nursing process to meet the clinical, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the patient and family
• Demonstrates initiative and seeks formal and informal opportunities to improve clinical practice within specialty area
• Demonstrates critical thinking in the identification of clinical, social, safety, psychological, ethical and spiritual issues within the episode of care
• Effectively delegates care as appropriate while retaining accountability for the quality of care given to patients and families
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with all members of the healthcare team including physicians and advanced practice providers; incorporates Safety behavior and error prevention tools
• Incorporates Sister Simone Roach’s 7 Cs of Caring: Ctheory by incorporating the seven Cs of Caring: Compassion, Competence, Confidence, Conscience, Commitment, Comportment, Creativity into daily work and practice

New Knowledge, Innovation & Improvement

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Creates an environment of open dialogue, inquiry, and continuous development by asking for feedback and improving practice
• Identifies opportunities for quality improvement to colleagues and management
• Applies evidence-based practice as a regular aspect of professional practice
• Ensures improvements in the practice setting by assuming responsibility for self‑development in life‑long learning
• Serves as a resource for students

Structural Empowerment

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Demonstrates an understanding of cultural intelligence, diversity, equity, and inclusion, lateral violence, and impairment and holds peers accountable for healthy relationships
• Demonstrating deep interdependence by valuing team member contributions, talents, and skills
• Models safe work hours, time management, efficiency, and stewardship
• Supports unit-based shared governance activities while on duty
• Actively participates in unit-based self‑care activities
• Continually evaluate work processes with the goal of improvement, to achieve our strategic initiatives
• Achieves and maintains de‑escalation training certification as appropriate for work unit

Empirical Outcomes

• Demonstrates competence in RN I performance expectations in addition to:
• Supports in quality of care activities, evaluates the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice
• Supports unit-based activities aimed at the ownership improving the patient’s experience, employee engagement, and/or nurse sensitive indicators on the unit with a focus on improvement

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.

Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) is a non-profit on a mission of improving the health of our community in all we do. Our team cares for more than 1 million people across the region through five hospitals and a variety of outpatient locations. Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) has campuses in Gainesville, Braselton, Winder, Dahlonega and Demorest - with a total of more than 850 beds and more than 1,200 medical staff members representing more than 60 specialties. Learn more at www.nghs.com.