Registered Nurse (RN) - PCU - Progressive Care Unit - $32-58 per hour

Atrium Health Charlotte; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a dedicated Registered Nurse for the Progressive Care Unit in Charlotte. This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide high-quality patient care in a supportive environment that values teamwork and professional growth. With a focus on critical patient conditions, you'll be empowered to make a real difference in patients' lives while enjoying robust benefits and a sign-on bonus. Join a forward-thinking organization that prioritizes nursing excellence and invests in its staff, ensuring a rewarding career path filled with opportunities for advancement. If you're passionate about nursing and ready to take the next step, this position is for you.

Benefits

Sign-on Bonus

Paid Time Off

Career Advancement Ladder

Robust Benefits Packages

Qualifications

• Graduate from an accredited nursing school; BSN preferred.
• Current RN license required in the state of work.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional nursing care through assessment and diagnosis.
• Collaborate with healthcare consumers and stakeholders in nursing practice.

Skills

Patient Care

Critical Thinking

Communication

Cultural Competence

Education

Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing

BSN preferred

Tools

Basic Life Support

Job description

Atrium Health Charlotte is seeking a Registered Nurse (RN) PCU - Progressive Care Unit for a nursing job in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Job Description & Requirements

• Specialty: PCU - Progressive Care Unit
• Discipline: RN
• Start Date: ASAP
• Duration: Ongoing
• Employment Type: Staff

Overview

This position is Sign-on Bonus eligible. In addition to the sign-on bonus, new teammates at Atrium Health are eligible for robust benefits packages, paid time off, and a Career Advancement Ladder that rewards you for years of experience within your area of specialty.

Atrium Health Pineville is proud to be an ANCC Pathways to Excellence organization in which we empower and give a voice to nurses. The ANCC Pathway to Excellence designation underscores our commitment to creating a healthy work environment where nurses excel. We believe that nurses are the heart of patient care, which is why our nursing staff is an integral part of our interprofessional team. Our organization’s investment in our nurses means better quality care, safety, and patient outcomes.

Job Summary

The RN Clinical Nurse I provides professional nursing care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation in accordance with facility or department policies procedures, and/or protocols under the supervision of the nursing leader. Assists in maintaining a safe work environment and performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner. Maintains clinical and professional competency as appropriate to the population of patients served.

2 Palmetto Progressive Care Unit sees a variety of patient diagnoses such as: COPD/Pulmonary Diseases, Heart Failure, Cardiac Arrhythmias, Renal Failure, DKA, conditions related to withdrawal (alcohol and/or other substances) and lots more! We see patients with tracheostomies requiring mechanical ventilation, continuous BIPAP/CPAP, high flow nasal cannula, hypothermia regulation, and titratable IV drips. We value Shared Governance through our Unit Practice Council, encourage the pursuit of Clinical Ladder Advancement and Progressive Certification, and strive to grow and foster a strong unit culture of teamwork, commitment, integrity, and caring.

Essential Functions

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation. Analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
• Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluates one's own and others nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Practices ethically.
• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.

Physical Requirements
Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling. Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. Must speak English in good, understandable terms. Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Finger dexterity. Critical thinking and ability to concentrate. Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions. Physical Abilities Testing required.

Education, Experience and Certifications
Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing. BSN preferred. Current Basic Life Support required per policy guidelines. Current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner in the state in which you work and reside or; if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as your primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements in your home state; or for Non-National License Compact states, current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner required in the state where the RN works.

Atrium Health Charlotte Job ID #129832. Posted job title: Registered Nurse Atrium Health Progressive Care Ft Nights

About Atrium Health Charlotte

Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Atrium Health is now part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, which was created from the combination with Advocate Aurora Health. In the Southeast Region, Atrium Health provides care under the Atrium Health name in Charlotte, NC, Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist name in the Winston-Salem, NC, region, as well as Atrium Health Navicent and Atrium Health Floyd in Georgia and Alabama. Together, we are committed to providing equitable care for all. Annually, Advocate Health provides nearly $5 billion in community benefits.

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health.