Registered Nurse Weekend - Emergency Room

Karmanos Cancer Institute; Lapeer (MI); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is seeking a registered nurse to coordinate nursing care for monitored patients during hospital stay, including cardiac monitoring and evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities include hourly rounding, applying the nursing process, and providing direct and indirect patient care in the emergency room. Requires Michigan nursing license, BLS, ACLS within 3 months of hire, and excellent communication with patients, visitors and staff.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Must possess valid State of Michigan Nursing License
• BLS certified
• ACLS certified within 3 months of hire
• Excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate and present self to patient, visitors, other staff and physicians verbally and in writing

Responsibilities

• Performs purposeful hourly rounding including: Pain, Position, Personal needs and Possessions
• Applies the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and discharge needs of patient/family
• Provides professional direct and indirect patient care in the emergency room setting

Skills

Customer service skills

Communication skills

Education

Nursing degree/diploma

Job description

McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan's largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.

The registered nurse is a professional nurse who coordinates the delivery of nursing care for monitored patients during their hospital stay including cardiac monitoring, hemodynamic stabilization, responsive to emergent situations and care of evidence-based medicine patients. The registered nurse ensures that quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the Michigan Department of Public Health, the medical center and nursing department standards. Utilizing the nursing process, functions primarily in direct patient care. The registered nurse participates in maintaining a safe patient care environment, maintains patient privacy, dignity, confidentiality and respects patient’s rights.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

1. Performs purposeful hourly rounding including: Pain, Position, Personal needs and Possessions

2. Applies the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and discharge needs of patient/family

3. Provides professional direct and indirect patient care in the emergency room setting

Required:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• Must possess valid State of Michigan Nursing License
• BLS certified
• ACLS certified within 3 months of hire
• Possesses excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate and present self to patient, visitors, other staff and physicians verbally and in writing in courteous, confident and professional manner

Preferred:

• CNOR Certification
• Previous work experience within the specific unit specialty

Specialty certification within the specific unit

Additional Information

• Schedule: Full-time
• Daily Work Times: 7 p to 7:30 a
• On Call: No

McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.