Rapid Response Nurse

Description

Sign on Bonus for Eligible External Hires

As a Rapid Response Nurse , your voice to influence patient care is valued and empowered at every turn –whether through open, collaborative relationships with your direct manager or more formal opportunities through hospital councils and national nursing initiatives. You‘ll help shape decisions that elevate both patient outcomes and the future of nursing.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at Tri Star Centennial Medical Center!

Job Summary and Qualifications

Rapid Response Nurse Under Tennessee Board of Nursing scope of practice the Registered Nurses (RNs) provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and families about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members. RNs must use independent and critical judgment in providing a wide variety of services within a critical care environment. The purpose of the Rapid Response Team (RRT) is to provide assessment, early intervention and stabilization for patients and to prevent clinical deterioration or arrest.

Additionally, the RRT will provide teaching, mentoring, and support to our nursing units.

What you will do in this role:

• You will monitor, record, and report symptoms or changes in patients‘ conditions including MEWS alert notification.

• You will order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient‘s condition.

• You will make periodic daily rounds to each inpatient clinical area.

• You will provide educational opportunities designed to meet the continuing education requirements of the facility

• You will modify patient treatment plans as indicated by patients‘ responses and conditions.

• You will prepare patients for and assist with examinations or  qualifications you will need:

• RN licensure by Tennessee Board of Nursing or a Board of Nursing from a compact state.

• Bachelor’s degree is preferred

• BLS, ACLS required

• CPI required within 6 months of hire kept current per hospital requirements

• CCRN preferred

• Minimum of two years clinical nursing experience in an ICU or Critical Care setting required. Additional one-year med surg experienced preferred. Benefits

Tri Star Centennial Medical Center, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services

• Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services

• Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence

• Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling

• Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing

• Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note:

Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

‘Nurses play a pivotal role and are the backbone of healthcare delivery. At HCA Healthcare, we are dedicated to ensuring nurses have necessary tools and resources to provide world-class patient care, advocating for the profession and helping to shape the future of nursing.‘

Sammie Mosier, DHA, MA, BSN, NE-BC

Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, HCA…