Registered Nurse - Critical Care Unit

Job Title

Registered Nurse - Critical Care Unit

Req:

Location:

VMC Main Campus
Department:
Critical Care

Shift: Days
Type:
Full Time
FTE: 0.9
City State:
Renton, WA
Category:
Nursing
Salary Range:
Min $46.94 - Max $85.76/hr doe

VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

Registered Nurse – 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.

See job description for Clinical Partner for generic job duties.

Any patient care area.

Assigned tour of duty hours.

Manager/Supervisor

• 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.
• Certification.
• Experience – Two years’ practice in clinical nursing/leadership in area of responsibility.
• 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 in the English language.
• Adheres to the dress code.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community-centered, compassionate, and meet the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• 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 to safely and appropriately transfer or move patients (or objects) of varying abilities, weights, and amounts of staff assistance. Must be able to lift from the floor to overhead levels and carry items at waist level weight up to 40 pounds. Requires ability to participate in team lifting.

Must be able to operate patient lifting equipment and patient handling devices accurately and safely. Requires the ability to stoop, bend, reach, crouch, and squat. Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time as required for patient care, moving patients or supplies to other units, hourly rounding, bedside shift report and other nursing duties. Requires full body range of motion including ability to reach from floor to overhead levels, manual and finger dexterity and eye‑hand coordination.

Requires corrected vision, hearing to normal range, and ability to distinguish colors.

• Generic Functions – Assess, guide, direct, and facilitate workflow on the unit. Recognize when it is necessary for the charge nurse to assume a patient assignment and assume that role.
• 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.
• Mentor staff, float, and agency personnel regarding unit/department/hospital policies, procedures/standards and annual goals and objectives.
• Integrate new staff and agency staff into the culture of the unit.
• Function as a leader and role model for clinical staff.
• Act as a clinical resource to unit staff. Demonstrate safe use of patient care equipment and can teach others to use equipment safely.
• Identify resource RN for LPN, PCA, and MST as necessary.
• Monitor and evaluate nursing care given to each patient, by direct observation, consultation, and patient rounds.
• Assess unit/environmental safety during patient rounds and report/correct deficiencies.
• Maintain awareness of Joint Commission…