RN PRN Step Down

University Hospitals; Parma (OH); On-site; USD 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Pain Management in Parma, OH, is seeking a nurse for a Step-Down Unit who provides age-specific nursing care and participates in multidisciplinary teams. You will deliver care using the nursing process and contribute to ongoing professional practice in a trusted hospital setting.

The role emphasizes strong communication, collaboration, leadership, and commitment to safety, PHI protection, and policy adherence within UH guidelines and orientation materials.

Qualifications

• Delivers age-specific nursing care using the nursing process.
• Demonstrates technical skills in safe patient care delivery.
• Maintains clear communication and collaborates to optimize care and operations.

Responsibilities

• Implements the nursing process by delivering effective relationship based nursing care.
• Demonstrates technical skills in care delivery that result in safe practice and positive care outcomes.
• Demonstrates clear communication and effective collaboration to optimize patient care and clinical operations.
• Develops self and contributes to the professional practice of nursing.
• Displays leadership that influences optimal clinical and operational outcomes.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• Refer to department documentation during orientation for specific duties.
• Maintains PHI safety and complies with UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures.

Skills

Nursing process

Clinical skills

Communication

Collaboration

Leadership

Job description

A Brief Overview
The 8^th floor Stepdown Unit is a 28 bed unit with 22 private and 3 semi-private rooms.The floor specializes in an intermediate level of care in which the patients need more monitoring and assessments than a medical/surgical division but are not so unstable that they need an ICU.

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Provides safe efficient age specific nursing care to patients/families using the nursing process in order to assist them to attain, maintain, regain, and sustain optimal health status.

What You Will Do

• Implements the nursing process by delivering effective relationship based nursing care.
• Demonstrates technical skills in care delivery that result in safe practice and positive care outcomes.
• Demonstrates clear communication and effective collaboration to optimize patient care and clinical operations.
• Develops self and contributes to the professional practice of nursing.
• Displays leadership that influences optimal clinical and operational outcomes.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.