Registered Nurse; RN - Pulmonary Medicine Center​/Eve

Overview

Registered Nurse – Pulmonary Medicine Center (Inpatient)
Up to $9,000 Sign-On Bonus | New Grads Welcome

Expand your nursing skills in a supportive, team-based environment by joining the 31-bed Pulmonary Medicine Center at Mercy Cedar Rapids. This fast-paced medical-surgical unit specializes in caring for a wide range of patients, including COPD, pneumonia, sepsis, renal failure, cellulitis, diabetes, dementia, peritonitis, and COVID-19. No two days are the same, offering learning opportunities and growth in confidence and competence.

It’s a close-knit team driven by integrity, compassion, accountability, respect and excellence—the values that drive The Mercy Touch®.

• 2-12 hour shifts 7a-7:30p with every third weekend and rotating holidays
• 24 hours/week = part-time pay & benefits

As an RN in the Pulmonary Medicine Center, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, patient-centered care using evidence-based practices
• Monitor and support patients with complex medical needs
• Communicate clearly with patients, families, and the care team at hand-offs
• Educate patients and families to support recovery and safe discharge
• Document care accurately in real time
• Respond effectively to emergencies and changing conditions
• Lead and delegate tasks to nursing assistants and support staff
• Create a respectful, compassionate environment for patients and team members

• Open to both experienced nurses and new graduates
• Hands-on orientation and mentorship program
• Work alongside a supportive, interdisciplinary care team
• Opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth
• Mercy Cedar Rapids is an independent, locally-managed healthcare system that has served the community for 120+ years

Keep reading for the full-length job description and continue to create/login to your Mercy Workday account to complete an application.

• Work Shift
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  Day
• Scheduled Weekly Hours
  : 24
• Summary
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  This position supports Mercy's patient-centered care philosophy by providing competent, respectful, and compassionate nursing care in accordance with Mercy standards, policies, and procedures. The RN works with unit team members to identify clinical problems, develop plans, and educate patients and families.
• Job Description

• Communicate accurate and clinically relevant information with patients, families, and co-workers at hand-offs and as needed, ensuring necessary information is shared for optimal patient outcomes.
• Demonstrate competent assessment, planning, intervention, coordination and evaluation based on the individual care plan.
• Continually assess patient and family needs to provide quality, patient-centered care.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and judgment to implement the patient plan of care and nursing interventions.
• Maintain accurate, real-time documentation of nursing care to support team information sharing.
• Serve as a role model to create a healthy work environment to meet unit goals.
• Respect the dignity of patients, families, visitors and staff to maintain a professional environment.
• Direct other licensed and non-licensed personnel in care as assigned.
• Demonstrate effective, age-appropriate communication, considering fears, anxieties and language/cultural barriers.
• Respond to emergencies and life-threatening conditions within scope of practice.
• Adhere to patient safety practices throughout the patient experience.
• Collaborate with all members of the healthcare team.
• Provide ongoing education to patients and families.
• Delegate to other nursing staff and department roles as appropriate.
• Follow Mercy safety guidelines and promptly report unsafe conditions or incidents.

Pulmonary Medicine Center

• Successfully completes yearly training on Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis

• Sound background in basic nursing principles and procedures
• Competent in unit-specific skills
• Ability to provide safe and effective basic nursing care
• Exemplary customer service skills, including verbal and non-verbal communication and phone etiquette
• Creates a welcoming environment for all team members
• Committed to ongoing self-development and learning