Float RN; Lex - Inpatient Float Pool

Overview

Inpatient Float Pool. Part Time. PM Shift. 7pm-730am.

Sign-On Bonus: 10,000

Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region s third largest employer.

Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first Heart

CARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Functions in a role that provides supplemental staffing to units as assigned. Promotes and restores patients  health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, and families; supervising assigned team members. Identifies the needs of patients and families using the nursing process across practice settings and across the continuum of care.

All responsibilities are carried out in accordance with the mission, vision, strategic imperatives and standards of the Lexington County Health District, American Nurses Association Standards and in accordance with the provisions/statutes set forth by the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act.

Lex Plan is a staffing schedule designated for patient care staff that work weekends only. Work 24 hours and get paid for 36, eligible for Full-time benefits, plus applicable clinical differentials.

Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing
New graduate RN s who acquire their generic RN education through an on-line program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications

Minimum Years of

Experience:

3 Years of acute care experience, with at least 1 year of Critical Care or Intermediate Care experience in the past 5 years

Substitutable

Education & Experience:

None

Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina;
Current certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (or within 6 months of hire into the role.)

Refer to Mandatory Certification Requirements P&P for required education/certification for various nursing specialties.

Required Training: None

• PATIENT CARE AND SUPPORT
  • Establishes positive rapport with patient and family.
  • Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families.
  • Promotes patient s independence by establishing patient care goals; provides education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition, medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask questions.
  • Serves as patient/family advocate.
  • Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating actions, irregularities, and ongoing needs.
  • Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment, nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and potential health problems.
  • Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner.
  • Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
  • Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes.
  • Provides supplemental staffing to Medical Surgical or Critical Care Units as assigned.
  • Maintains competencies in areas of specialty such as Medical Surgical areas or Critical Care.
• CLINI…