Staff Nurse: 7 Surgical

Akron Children’s Hospital; Akron, Northern (OH, KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Akron Children’s Hospital is hiring a Staff Nurse for full-time night shifts (onsite: 7pm–7:30am, 36 hours/week). The role emphasizes specialized nursing knowledge, judgment, and patient-family centered care across the pediatric population.

The nurse will lead, plan, and evaluate care, support education and mentoring of staff, participate in safety and quality initiatives, and collaborate with providers to ensure legendary pediatric patient service.

Qualifications

• BSN required or must be obtained within 5 years of hire.
• Current Ohio RN license and BLS certification required.
• Minimum 1 year of relevant nursing experience preferred.
• Strong leadership and patient-family centered care skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care with family-centered focus.
• Provide care addressing physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs.
• Perform leadership, professional duties, and patient-centered care tasks.
• Contribute to quality improvement and safety initiatives.
• Mentor and/or precept new staff and support clinical staff development.
• Promote collaboration and excellent customer service for pediatric patients.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Customer service

Organizational skills

Team collaboration

Education

BSN

Ohio RN license

BLS

Tools

EPIC

MS Office

Job description

Full Time Nights
36 hours/week
7pm-7:30am
onsite
The Staff Nurse provides nursing care requiring specialized knowledge judgment and skill derived from the principles of biological, physical, behavioral, social and nursing sciences.

Responsibilities

• 1. Assesses, plans, implements, evaluates and directs nursing care with a focus on family centered care for individuals or groups of patients within the assigned scope of practice.
• 2. Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care for the physical, psychosocial, educational, and safety needs of the patients served regardless of age and developmental status is required.
• 3. Performs leadership and professional duties.
• 4. Performs patient-centered care duties.
• 5. Performs quality improvement and safety duties.
• 6. Participates in the development education for staff members for clinically related issues. May be responsible for precepting new employees and act as a mentor to the clinical staff.
• 7. Performs evidence-based practice duties.
• 8. Supports the provider staff and actively promotes collaboration for efficient operation and quality care, and legendary customer service for pediatric patients using a team approach.
• 9. Performs systems-based practice duties.
• 10. Performs informatics and technology duties.
• 11. Staff may be temporarily assigned to an area throughout the Akron Children's Hospital enterprise, based on patient needs requiring similar knowledge and skill.
• 12. Other duties as required.

Other information:

Technical Expertise

• 1. Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, guidance and motivation to other staff members with emphasis on working as a collaborative team to provide quality service to patients and their families.
• 2. Strong communication skills, both verbal and written are required.
• 3. Excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills are required.
• 4. Strong organizational skills are required.
• 5. Ability to work well under pressure to prioritize and complete required tasks and responsibilities in a timely and accurate manner.
• 6. Experience working with various levels within an organization is required.
• 7. Experience in healthcare is preferred.
• 8. Experience working in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word) or similar software is required.
• 9. Experience working an electronic medical record system (i.e. EPIC) or similar software is preferred.

Education and Experience

• 1. Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required or must be obtained within 5 years from date of hire.
• 2. Current certification in Basic Life Support training from the American Heart Association is required. Additional certifications may be required based on the assigned department or unit.
• 3. Licensed as a Registered Nurse (RN) in the state of Ohio is required.
• 4. Years of relevant experience: Minimum of one (1) year of experience is preferred.
• 5. Years of experience supervising: None

Full Time

FTE: 0.900000

Status: Onsite