Registered Nurse, Women's Services (PRN)

Memorial Physician Practices; Rutherfordton (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Rutherford Regional Health System is seeking a skilled Registered Nurse for Women’s Services to provide high-quality nursing care during night shifts. You will collaborate with physicians and the health care team, perform complete patient assessments, and participate in discharge planning while adhering to safety protocols and hospital policies.

The role requires 1-3 years in Women’s Services, an RN license in NC, and certifications such as BLS, PALS, ACLS, NRP, and STABLE.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years of Women's Services experience required.
• Associate's Degree in Nursing Required, Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Preferred.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) required.
• Handle With Care training.
• PALS certification.
• ACLS certification.
• NRP certification.
• Advanced Fetal Monitoring.
• STABLE training.
• Current RN license to practice in NC (NC licensure or multi-state compact).

Responsibilities

• Provides professional nursing care to assigned patients within the hospital.
• Collaborates with medical staff and health care team to deliver quality patient care.
• Follows approved policies and guides; supervises/assigns duties to ancillary personnel.
• Communicates with multidisciplinary team and provides timely handoffs.
• Develops and updates individualized nursing care plans and discharge planning.
• Performs medication-related tasks with safety checks and documentation.
• Provides patient education and discharge instructions.
• Assists with obstetric care, labor/delivery, and post-operative gynecology/postpartum units.

Skills

Critical thinking

Decisive judgment

Work with minimal supervision

Stress management

Education

Associate's Degree in Nursing

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

Tools

BLS

PALS

ACLS

NRP

STABLE

Advanced Fetal Monitoring

Job description

$20,000 Sign-On Bonus Opportunity

Schedule: Nights

Your experience matters

Rutherford Regional Health System is a 143-bed acute care facility that offers a broad array of inpatient and outpatient care. Rutherford Regional is dedicated to providing patients with a full range of services to meet their healthcare needs. We provide our services in a caring, professional environment through the teamwork of our medical staff and employees.

Rutherford Regional Health System's partnership with Duke LifePoint Healthcare is bringing the pieces together to transform healthcare in Rutherford County. Duke LifePoint Healthcare is a joint venture of Duke University Health System, one of the country's leading academic health systems, and LifePoint Health, a leading healthcare company dedicated to Making Communities Healthier. These two forces joined because of the shared interest in collaborating with hospitals, healthcare providers and patients to bring high quality, innovative healthcare services to communities. Duke LifePoint combines Duke's unparalleled expertise in clinical excellence and quality care with LifePoint's extensive resources and knowledge and experience operating community hospitals and healthcare organizations.

To render professional nursing care to a group of assigned patients within the hospital. Collaborates with the medical staff and other members of the health care team to provide quality patient care. Performs all activities in accordance with approved policies and guides. Supervises and delegates appropriate duties to ancillary personnel.

Essential Functions:

• Communicates with multidisciplinary team members by sharing pertinent patient data and needs. Provides accurate and timely handoff communications. Keeps patients and their families informed about their care.
• Establishes individualized nursing diagnosis based on assessment data and formulates care plan. Collaborates with patient and family members to address care needs and provide patient centered care. Adjusts plan of care appropriately.
• Patient/family care needs and/or problems are promptly identified and addressed. Patients are regularly assessed and reassessed. Patient responses to nursing and MD interventions and treatments are evaluated and documented in the ongoing assessment data.
• Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, initiates discharge planning to meet the discharge care needs of each individual patient.
• Provides patient and family education in regard to the hospitalization/admission, medications, and/or in preparation for discharge. Upon discharge, provides appropriate discharge instructions to include follow-up and referral needs.
• Uses safe medication practices (Read Back, double checks) and documents outcomes such as patient response to new medication, side effects and adverse reactions. Completes medication reconciliation upon admission, transfer and discharge.
• Demonstrates ability to care for patient with Mg sulfate for preeclampsia/preterm labor care for patient with Pitocin Induction/augmentation care for the patient with a fetal demise. Care for the patient during labor and delivery. Care for a post-operative cesarean section. Care of a post-operative gynecology patientcare of a post-operative pediatric patientcare for the infant requiring oxygen. Care for the infant with IV/Antibiotics. Care for the infant requiring phototherapy. Evaluate non stress test. Assist physician with intrauterine pressure catheter insertion. Assist with and care for the infant with circumcision. Care for the preterm infant. Perform car seat test.
• Initiates and maintains amnio infusion.
• Demonstrates placement of NG tube/NG feeding.
• Assists with orientation and training of others as directed.
• Employee supervises others.

What we're looking for

• Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Must be able to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.

Requirement

• 1-3 years of Women's Services experience required.
• Associate's Degree in Nursing Required, Bachelor's Degree in Nursing Preferred
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Handle With Care
• PALS
• ACLS
• NRP
• Advanced Fetal Monitoring
• STABLE
• Licenses: Current RN license to practice in NC (NC licensure or multi-state (compact) license).

Why join our team?

We are dedicated to providing patients with a full range of services to meet their healthcare needs, and we believe our employees are our most valuable assets in accomplishing this goal. Rutherford Regional is growing its team of dedicated health care professionals. If you are looking to start a career that cares, are passionate about changing lives, and ready to work in a supportive environment in a close-knit community, apply today!

Equal opportunity and affirmative action employers and are looking for diversity in candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.