RN - Acute Care Float Pool (Per Diem)

Guthrie; City of Corning (NY); On-site; USD 50,971 - 73,012; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Float pool premium

Unit variety experience

Orientation and training

Flexible scheduling

Supportive nursing culture

Modern hospital environment

Job summary

Guthrie Corning Hospital is seeking an experienced RN for its Acute Care Float Pool, offering variety across Med/Surg and Telemetry units. You will work with diverse care teams in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining ties to a single hospital community.

The role supports professional growth, with comprehensive orientation and unit-specific training, and features flexible scheduling options. A supportive nursing culture and a modern hospital setting enhance your everyday practice.

Qualifications

• Current Registered Nurse license in the state of employment.
• BSN preferred.
• Active BLS certification; ACLS is unit dependent.
• ACLS is unit dependent.
• Transition from NLRN program acceptable for those with <1 year experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional, comprehensive nursing care in an acute care setting.
• Deliver safe, evidence-based care and family education.
• Coordinate care with multidisciplinary teams.
• Document care and communicate patient status clearly.
• Maintain competency and ongoing professional development.
• Demonstrate leadership and advocacy for patients and families.

Skills

RN licensure in state

BLS certification

ACLS certification

BSN preferred

Electronic Health Records

Education

BSN preferred

Tools

EHR / EMR

Job description

Tired of working the same unit every shift? Expand Your Skills. Increase Your Flexibility. Make a Bigger Impact.

Are you an experienced RN looking for variety, flexibility, and the opportunity to grow your acute care expertise? Join Guthrie Corning Hospital's Acute Care Float Pool and bring your skills to where they're needed most across our Med/Surg and Telemetry units.

This role is ideal for nurses who enjoy a fast-paced environment, thrive on learning, and want the opportunity to work alongside a variety of care teams while maintaining the stability of a single hospital community.

Why Nurses Choose Guthrie's Acute Care Float Pool

• Additional hourly Float Pool premium plus Per Diem premium pay
• Gain experience across both Medical/Surgical and Telemetry patient populations
• Comprehensive orientation and unit-specific training designed to support your success
• Expand your clinical knowledge and strengthen your acute care skill set
• Flexible scheduling options
• Collaborative and supportive nursing culture
• Modern, state-of-the-art hospital environment

A Unique Advantage: Virtual RN Support

At Guthrie Corning Hospital, bedside nurses are supported by Virtual RNs through our innovative Pulse Center during day shifts. This additional layer of support helps streamline care coordination, documentation, and communication activities, allowing nurses to spend more time focused on direct patient care and the patient experience.

Grow Your Career While Maintaining Flexibility

As a Float Pool RN, you'll experience a broad range of patient conditions, develop strong clinical versatility, and build relationships with teams across multiple inpatient units. Whether you're looking to diversify your experience, supplement your income, or simply enjoy the variety that float nursing provides, this role offers an opportunity to grow while remaining part of one supportive organization.

Position Summary

The Registered Nurse (RN) provides professional, comprehensive nursing care for patients in an acute care environment. Accountable for the delivery of coordinated, safe, compassionate, therapeutic, evidence‑based quality care to patients and families, based on individual physical, emotional, and spiritual needs, and appropriate care strategies throughout the lifespan. Practices in accordance with the Nurse Practice Act in the state of employment, the American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics for Nurses, and the ANA scope and standards of practice. Essential functions and specific skills for the job are found in the unit specific onboarding checklist and in standards that are applicable to the specialty.

Education, License & Cert

• Registered Nurse in the State of Practice.
• BSN in Nursing preferred.
• Any previously agreed upon effective date for obtaining a Bachelor's degree in nursing between individuals and facilities will remain in effect, including those who transition to their position from the NLRN Program.
• Any contract with specific time frames for obtaining a bachelor’s degree in nursing will supersede the above point and will remain in effect.
• Specialty Certification is preferred
• BLS certification.
• ACLS is unit dependent.

Experience

The Registered Nurse must be a registered nurse currently licensed in the state of employment with at least one year of experience. Alternately, the Registered Nurse may have less than one year of experience if they have been transitioned to their position from the Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Residency (NLRN) Program. The Registered Nurse must meet the individual nursing unit specifications regarding educational requirements during employment. Must maintain BLS certification. ACLS is unit dependent. Specifications regarding educational requirements during employment are determined by the Nursing Department and Nursing Unit.

Essential Functions

• Employs Nursing Professional Practice: Assesses, diagnoses, plans, implements, and evaluates patients' care. Implements and/or administers all prescribed testing, medications, and/or protocols appropriately and in compliance with established standards, while ensuring all pertinent patient/family education has been provided. Develops updates and coordinates the patients' plan of care to achieve patient goals and to optimize outcomes and transitions across the continuum. Monitors, records, and communicates patient condition as appropriate. Performs and maintains the currency of essential competencies as required by a specific area of hire and population served.
• Advocates: Effectively advocates for ethical and holistic care by partnering in care planning to promote the autonomy, dignity, rights, values, and beliefs of those we serve.
• Facilitates Learning: Fosters a learning environment for patients/families, nursing, and other members of the healthcare team, including student; Facilities formal and informal learning for patients/families, nursing, other members of the healthcare team, and community.
• Aligns Practice with Safety and Quality: Accountable for safety, identifies and corrects problems, and integrates evidence and best practice into nursing care; uses data and evidence to improve patient outcomes. Aligns patient safety, self‑safety, and environmental safety as equally important for best outcomes.
• Engages in Professional Development: Engages in ongoing professional development; practices at the top of license within the legal parameters of the Nurse Practice Act, the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, and specialty standards. Promotes a culture of inquiry that explores, integrates, and disseminates research and evidence‑based practice.
• Leader in Practice Setting & Community: demonstrates leadership as change agents using the collaborative leadership skills of advocacy, influence, and innovation. In partnering with colleagues appropriately delegates, coordinates care, and collaborates with others as equal members of the inter‑professional care team to integrate nursing knowledge. Models professional behaviors as a representative of the nursing profession.
• Participates in the planning and presentation of educational programs.
• It is understood that this description is not intended to be all‑inclusive and that other duties may be assigned as necessary in the performance of the position.

Other Duties

• Proficiency in Information Technology, such as electronic health records, communication systems, computers, and equipment necessary to perform essential functions of the position.
• Skilled to work with a wide range of staff as part of an interdisciplinary team, including physicians, nurses, and ancillary staff.
• Ability to use independent, critical judgment in all aspects of patient care delivery.
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills that convey a positive and supportive attitude.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple responsibilities, urgent responses, and challenging situations.

The pay for this position ranges from $37.31-$53.33 per hour.