Registered Nurse (RN) - Med Surg - Labor Pool - Days

rivhs; Gloucester (VA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverside Health System in Gloucester, VA, is seeking a Registered Nurse to provide comprehensive nursing care under the supervision of the Nurse Manager and Director. The RN will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for assigned patients in a collaborative, culturally competent environment.

Responsibilities include coordinating with the care team, educating patients and families, maintaining documentation, and ensuring high-quality outcomes per RHS standards.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse license is required.
• CPR/BLS certification required.
• Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred or equivalent education.

Responsibilities

• Assess patient clinical and psychosocial needs and apply standards of practice.
• Develop, implement and evaluate care plans with patients and families.
• Coordinate with interdisciplinary team to ensure safe transitions and evidence-based care.
• Deliver individualized patient education and discharge instructions.
• Complete clinical and quality documentation per RHS standards and regulatory requirements.
• Delegate and prioritize tasks to support quality patient care and timely service.

Skills

Nursing assessment

Care planning

Care coordination

Patient education

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Nursing

RN Program Graduate

Job description

Gloucester, Virginia

Hiring Range

$36.50 - $50.23/Hourly

Actual pay is determined based on job-related factors such as relevant experience, education, credentials, skills, internal equity, and business needs.

Overview

Works under the supervision of the Nurse Manager and the Director and is responsible for the assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating the total nursing care of assigned patients. The RN utilizes communication, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making to create a care plan for each patient based on physiological, psychosocial and cultural diversity. Responsible for supervising and delegating non-professional personnel working directly with him/her to ensure optimum patient care. Must demonstrate competence in dealing with age related needs of the specific patient populations. Works under the direction of leadership and a multi-disciplinary team to provide a comprehensive range of services or clinical care associated with and in accordance with standards of excellence established by Riverside Health system and facility goals and strategic plans.

What you will do

• Demonstrates ability to assess patient clinical and psychosocial needs by applying standards of practice as it relates to the specialty or patient population. Demonstrates nursing unit specific competencies and equipment training, see checklists.
• Partners with patients and their family to develop, implement and evaluate a plan of care, treatments and procedures that contribute to physiological and psychosocial outcomes of the patient. Incorporates evidence based standards of practice and collaborates with interdisciplinary team in care coordination. Facilitates safe patient transition to next level of care as part of plan of care.
• Demonstrates sense of urgency to facilitate patient throughput to ensure patient receives consistent, competent and ethical care. Focuses on quality outcomes of patient when addressing service needs to ensure evidence based quality care of patient.
• Demonstrates understanding of diverse patient care populations. Modifies education method to ensure patient/family understanding. Assumes responsibility to coordinate and deliver individualized patient education and discharge specific education to family/caregivers. Evaluates for comprehension and documents.
• Accurately completes all required clinical and quality documentation consistently per RHS standards and regulatory requirements.
• Delegates and prioritizes tasks appropriately to facilitate quality patient care and service excellence to meet the patient's care needs. Recognizes and responds to emergency situations. Evaluates resources and support needed and uses systems to ensure needs are met.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors Degree, Nursing (Preferred)
• Program Graduate, Registered Nurse (Required)

Experience

• 1 year Staff Nurse (Preferred)

Licenses and Certifications

• Registered Nurse (RN) - State Department of Health Professions (Required)
• CPR/BLS Certification - American Heart Association/American Red Cross/American Safety and Health Institute (AHA/ARC) (Required)