Registered Nurse (RN) - Intensive Care Unit

Sentara Health; Norfolk (VA); Vor Ort; USD 80.000 - 105.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Sign-on bonus $20,000

Zusammenfassung

Sentara Leigh Hospital in Norfolk, VA is hiring a Registered Nurse for the Intensive Care Unit. This full-time, night-shift position offers a $20,000 sign-on bonus and a 36-hour work week, with ICU nurse to patient ratios evolving by patient need.

The ICU team provides critical care with support from an interdisciplinary staff, including therapists and physicians. The role emphasizes ongoing education, transition-to-practice training, and commitment to patient safety, quality, and compassionate

Qualifikationen

• RN license is required.
• BLS within 90 days of hire.
• Minimum 1 year ICU/ER/med-surg experience.

Aufgaben

• Provide competent nursing care using the nursing process.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary care teams to plan care.
• Educate patients and families on care plans.
• Monitor patient status and respond to changes promptly.

Kenntnisse

Critical thinking

Nursing assessment

Communication skills

Ausbildung

Registered Nursing degree/diploma

BSN/MSN preferred

Jobbeschreibung

Sentara Leigh Hospital is hiring a Registered Nurse for our Intensive Care Unit

This position is eligible for a $20,000 Sign on Bonus!

Hours/Shift: Full Time (36 hours per week)/Nights

Overview

The Registered Nursing (RN) is responsible to perform a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process. The standards of practice (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care- teaching and health promotion and evaluation) along with the standards of professional performance (ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence- based practice /nursing research, quality, evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health) encompass the actions and foundation of professional nursing. The RN possesses clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.

Department/Position Overview

Sentara Leigh Hospital Intensive Care Unit, AACN Gold Beacon Award recipient, is comprised of 20 licensed critical care beds and has an average daily census of 18 patients. Staffing ratios vary and can be 1:1 to 1:3 with 1:2 being the usual assignment.

The ICU RN’s are required to have a wide array of knowledge, skill and ability to competently and safely provide critical care to our patients. Frequent ongoing education, new skill acquisition and skill validation are provided and supported by an experienced ICU CNS for new and experienced ICU nurses.

This unit welcomes experienced nurses moving into this specialty. The 11-week Transition to Practice program focuses on the orientation transition experience with intentional knowledge support and skill acquisition for practice in IMC areas.

ICU staff are supported by an interdisciplinary care team which in part includes unit based respiratory, physical, speech and occupational therapists. Interpreter, nutrition, palliative, chaplaincy and ethical services are readily available as well. Our ICU has onsite and eICU pulmonary critical care intensivists and their team of physician extenders 24/7. Physician lead, nurse driven interdisciplinary rounds are held daily for continuity of care and to address nursing’s concerns or questions. These rounds are made educational and even fun at times by our very engaged intensivist MD’s.

Education

• Degree or Diploma in Registered Nursing (required)
• Bachelor of Science Nursing- BSN or MSN (Preferred)

Certification/Licensure

• Registered nursing License (Required)
• BLS required within 90 days of hire

Experience

• Minimum of 1 year emergency, intermediate care, intensive care of med/surg nursing

Be a part of an excellent healthcare organization that cares about our People, Quality, Patient Safety, Service, and Integrity. Join a team that has a mission to improve health every day and a vision to be the healthcare choice of the communities that we serve!

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Sentara Leigh Hospital, located in Norfolk, VA, is a 274-bed acute care facility that opened in 1903 and relocated to its present site in 1977. Our hospital completed a renovation in 2016, including two new patient towers, a beautiful atrium, and a multi-story parking garage. Sentara Leigh Hospital includes a dedicated Orthopedic Hospital providing patients access to a full continuum of orthopedic care, from the preoperative phase and surgery to rehabilitation and home care services. Along with being a recognized accredited Primary Stroke Center, and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, we also specialize in orthopedic and spine care, heart, vascular, maternity care, and general surgery. We are also home to the region’s only 24-hour hyperbaric oxygen program that helps speed up the healing of carbon monoxide poisoning, wounds that won’t heal, infections in which tissues are starved for oxygen, airborne chemical exposures, and scuba diving accidents.