Registered Nurse; Neuro

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Job Title:

Registered Nurse

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Location:

Renton, WA (VMC Main Campus)

Department: 6 South (Cardiac/Telemetry)

Shift: Nights

Employment Type:

Full Time

FTE: 0.9

Hours:

Assigned tour of duty hours

City State:
Renton, WA

Category:
Nursing

Salary Range:
Minimum $46.94 - Maximum $85.76 per hour (DOE)

The staff RN is a licensed professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. This individual provides safe, quality care to these patients utilizing the nursing process as the basis for clinical practice. The position description is a guide to the critical duties and essential functions of the job, not an all‑inclusive list.

• BSN preferred.
• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of Washington.
• Successful completion of a graduate nurse residency program orientation or six months’ experience as a Registered Nurse.
• AHA BLS for healthcare providers required.

• BSN.
• Experience:
  
  Two years’ practice in clinical nursing/leadership in area of responsibility preferred.
• Unit specific prerequisites – see addendum.

• Demonstrates leadership skills with ability to lead and manage a team, utilize clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, innovation, and systems thinking.
• Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• Adheres to the Professional Appearance Policy.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community‑centered, compassionate, and meet the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with the physical and emotional development of all age groups.
• Practices in a caring environment with excellent customer service skills.
• Functions within ANA Standards and Nurse Practice Act.
• Ability to access information and communicate in an electronic environment including but not limited to the use of order entry, e‑mail, and computer documentation skills.
• Self‑directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education and research.

Must be able to provide safe patient handling as defined in VMC's Safe Patient Handling guidelines and policies. Requires ability to lift from the floor to overhead levels and carry items at waist level weight up to 40 pounds, participate in team lifting, operate lifting equipment, stoop, bend, reach, crouch, squat, stand and walk for extensive periods, maintain full body range of motion, manual and finger dexterity, eye‑hand coordination, corrected vision and hearing within normal range, and distinguish colors.

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Job Functions:

See Generic Job Description for Clinical Partner.

• Assesses, guides, directs, and facilitates workflow on the unit, recognizing when the charge nurse must assume a patient assignment and assuming that role as needed.
• Make staff assignments that reflect patient acuity, continuity of patient care, staff competency, and the necessity of admit, transfer, and discharge activity inherent on all clinical units.
• Mentors staff, float, and agency personnel regarding unit, department, and hospital policies, procedures/standards and annual goals and objectives.
• Integrates new staff and agency staff into the culture of the unit.
• Functions as a leader and role model for clinical staff.
• Acts as a clinical resource to unit staff, demonstrating safe use of patient care equipment and teaching others to use equipment safely.
• Identifies resource RN for LPN, PCA, and MST as necessary.
• Monitors and evaluates nursing care given to each patient by direct observation, consultation, and patient rounds.
• Assesses unit/environmental safety during patient rounds and reports/corrects deficiencies.
• Maintains awareness of Joint Commission standards, state codes, and practice acts, routinely monitoring documentation, compliance with standards, and facilitating rapid turn‑around cycles.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service skills.
• Responds to patient and family…