RN, General Medicine & Respiratory, Days

College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Registered Nurse for General Medicine/Respiratory in Winston-Salem, NC. This role involves patient-centered care using nursing processes while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. With a sign-on bonus of $15,000, qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

• RN licensure in NC required.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification necessary.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within a year may be required in select areas.

Responsibilities

• Provides nursing care and collaborates with multidisciplinary teams.
• Maintains patient privacy and safety, promoting a healing environment.
• Coordinates effective delivery of patient care services.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Collaborative work

Direct patient care

Education

Graduation from accredited school of nursing

BSN preferred

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION

Registered Nurse, General Medicine/Respiratory, AHWFB-Winston

Day Shift (7a-7p) Every 3rd Weekend

Sign-on Bonus: $15,000 sign-on bonus eligible position for qualified candidates!

JOB SUMMARY:

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation). The staff nurse directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

• Graduation from accredited school of nursing
• BSN preferred

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION:

• RN licensure in NC
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) may be required within one year in select areas
• Performs and maintains competency for point-of-care testing as assigned; waived and or non-waived, ensuring compliance with WFBH policies and with applicable state and federal regulations

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Provide patient/family centered care using the nursing process and focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs. This includes providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of WFBMC.
2. Maintains a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment through ensuring patient privacy and responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior.
3. Utilizes and promotes the use of technology and equipment to enhance the safety of patients and staff.
4. Communicates effectively to promote sharing of information throughout the continuum of care and as an effective member of the healthcare team.
5. Demonstrates the ability to function in a professional setting through active participation in a professional practice model. This includes participating in shared governance, adherence to standards of care, participation in peer review and professional development promoting leadership and clinical excellence, effective team skills, autonomous practice and acknowledgment of accountability for actions and critical thinking.
6. Performs and maintains competency for point-of-care testing as assigned, waived and or non-waived, ensuring compliance with WFBH policies and with applicable state and federal regulations.
7. Acts as a patient advocate throughout the continuum of care including all patient settings and in the community.
8. Coordinates the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services through the application of care management principles. Identifies clinical priorities and initiates action to improve patient outcomes.
9. Demonstrates ability to function in a professional practice model through active participation in shared governance, promotion of a healthy work environment and acceptance of personal responsibility for professional growth.

SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ability to provide direct and indirect patient care
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively
• Solid written and oral communication skills

About Us

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 Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

About the Team

Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments

Mission

To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.

Vision

To be the first and best choice for care.

Culture Commitments

We create a space where all Belong

We Work as One to make great things happen

We earn Trust in all we do

We Innovate to better the now and create the future

We drive for Excellence - always