RN South

Overview

Job Description - RN 2 South - FT )

Beckley, West Virginia offers a variety of perks, including a cost of living approximately 16.6% lower than the U.S. median. Beckley is the hub of South Central West Virginia, providing shopping and health care to six surrounding counties and offering access to southern West Virginia’s Appalachian culture. The area features opportunities for outdoor activities and cultural experiences.

Raleigh General Hospital is the largest and most highly regarded medical facility in southern West Virginia, serving a population of over 250,000. It performs nearly 13,000 surgeries each year, with an Emergency Department among the busiest in the state. The hospital has invested in improvements since 2006 and opened an interventional cardiac care unit in 2009. Additional services include digital mammography, surgical services, and women’s and children’s services.

In 2015, the hospital became a Level 3 Trauma facility with a PCI accreditation and has earned awards including the Blue Cross Blue Shield Maternity Center of Distinction and a March of Dimes Nurses Education grant. Raleigh General Hospital has served Beckley and surrounding counties since 1921.

We invite you to be part of a team that values you, treats you like family, and strives to provide excellent service to patients, families, visitors, physicians, and fellow employees. Our mission is to make Raleigh General Hospital a place where people choose to come, physicians prefer to practice, and employees want to work.

“We Touch Lives”

The 2 South unit is responsible for the treatment of patients requiring Medical-Surgical, Observational or Out-Patient nursing care. The unit handles medical and surgical nursing, initiating life-saving procedures, and providing emergency care, including care to patients requiring telemetry monitoring. The unit delivers care that includes assessment, problem identification, pre-operative assessment, pre- and post-operative care, interventions, treatment and evaluation of actual, potential, or perceived physical or psychological problems.

Procedures or treatments provided on the 2-South unit include, but are not limited to:

• Monitoring Observation Patients
• Admission assessment
• Pre and post-operative care
• Pre and post endoscopy care
• Medication administration
• IV therapy
• Administration of blood and blood products
• Post radiation treatments
• Pain control
• Pulse oximeter, O2 therapy
• Insertion of foley catheters
• IV and PCA pumps
• Blood warmers
• NG tube placement
• Tube feedings
• Assisting physician with insertion of chest tubes
• Abdominal paracentesis and thoracentesis
• Maintenance of CVP lines
• Blood draws from CVP lines
• Wound care
• Defibrillation

• Graduate of a School of Nursing / College Nursing Education Program
• Current licensure by the West Virginia State Board of Nursing
• Pass pre-employment medication test with a score of 80% or better