RN | ICU | Per Diem

Summary This Registered Nurse (RN) 2 position exists within a designated inpatient specialty area. The RN is responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for patients in the department/unit, from simple to complex multi‑system issues, ensuring a safe and therapeutic environment. The RN employs principles of growth and development across the lifespan, interprets patient data to identify age‑specific needs, engages in caring relationships with patients, families, and significant others, collaborates with health‑care workers, and performs nursing and medical interventions with sound judgment.

The RN adheres to specialty and organizational standards, policies, and protocols, reports to the Director and/or Nurse Manager, and may supervise Licensed Nursing Assistants and unlicensed personnel.

Education Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred.

Certification, Registration & Licensure Registered Nurse – New Hampshire Board of Nursing. Basic Life Support – American Heart Association.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care.
• Base nursing actions on purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
• Gathers data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates, and revises patient plans of care and nursing actions in response to patient needs.
• Documents care provided and patient progress toward desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others in delegated nursing activities.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant others about the plan of care; prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer, or procedure/test.
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Administers medications to patients.

Experience One year prior clinical nursing experience. Evidence of effective collaboration with patients, other care providers, and the multidisciplinary team.

Equal Employment Opportunity Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

Physical and Work Requirements The physical demands and work environment characteristics include regular lifting up to 10 pounds, frequent lifting up to 25 pounds, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds. The role requires fine motor skills, hearing, speaking, walking, bending, reaching, sitting, squatting, standing, occasional climbing, repetitive motion, kneeling, and smelling. Vision requirements include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.

Exposure to airborne pathogens, blood‑borne pathogens, bodily fluids, and occasional airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards, moving mechanical parts, heat/cold, slippery surfaces, toxic chemicals may occur. The noise level is usually moderate.

Accommodations Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Please contact Human Resources at 603‑230‑7269 for accommodations.