RN | Float Pool | Full Time | Rotating Shift

Concord Hospital Health System; Laconia (NH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare facility in Laconia is looking for experienced Registered Nurses to join the RN Float Team. This position will allow you to utilize diverse clinical skills across various acute care settings, enhancing your experience in medical/surgical and critical care units. The ideal candidate will possess a nursing degree, relevant certifications, and prior clinical experience. This role emphasizes teamwork and patient care management.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing license required.
• Basic Life Support certification from American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Apply clinical judgment to make decisions.
• Gather patient data and plan interventions.
• Document care and patient progress.
• Supervise nursing activities.
• Teach patients about care plans.
• Manage time and resources effectively.
• Administer medications.
• Provide direct patient care.

Skills

Clinical nursing experience

Teamwork

Patient care management

Education

Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing

BSN preferred

Job description

Concord Hospital-Laconia is seeking experienced RNs to join our RN Float Team. The float team offers you the opportunity to use your diverse clinical skills and competencies in a variety of acute care settings. This float team position will offer exposure to a variety of medical/surgical or critical care units across the hospital and provide you with an opportunity to further develop your skill base.

Education

• Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred.

Certification, Registration & Licensure

• Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing
• Basic Life Support - American Heart Association

Experience

• One year prior clinical nursing experience.
• Evidence of experience in working effectively and positively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team.

Responsibilities

• Bases nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
• Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care. Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Administers medications to patients.
• Provides direct patient care.
• Leads the health care team.
• Serves as a Resource Person for assigned shift.
• Serves as a preceptor for new employees.
• Performs job specific requirements and other duties as assigned.

Physical and Work Requirements

The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10–25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20–50 pounds.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to do fine motor, hear, speak, and walk. The employee is frequently required to bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand; occasionally required to climb, do repetitive motion, kneel, and smell.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids. The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards – shock, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.