RN - Registered Nurse - Step Down Telemetry Unit - St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital

RN - Registered Nurse - Step Down Telemetry Unit - St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital

Bon Secours Mercy Health

Step down telemetry unit zabeth Youngstown Hospital.

Unit Information:

• Location:
  
  7 West Extension Progressive Care
• Bed capacity: 26 beds
• Staffing ratios: 1:4/5 without LPNs; 1:6/7 with LPNs
• Typically monitored patients; no LPNs on unit
• Self-scheduling
• Newly renovated unit

Shift/

Schedule:

• Full time: 36 weekly hours
• Shift time: 7 p.m. – 7 a.m.
• Scheduled every other weekend

Summary of Primary Function / General

Purpose:

The Step‑down Registered Nurse (RN) delivers patient care utilizing the nursing process through data collection and assessment, identifying and determining the priority of patient needs, and evaluating the process and outcome of nursing care, in collaboration with the interdisciplinary care team. The RN coordinates and directs patient teaching activities and coordinates the care provided by health team members.

Essential Job Functions:

• Conduct initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyze assessment data, create plan of care, implement treatment, and evaluate effectiveness.
• Administer medications safely in accordance with state practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies.
• Act as point of contact for patient care coordination throughout hospital departments.
• Advocate for patient safety by participating in ongoing quality improvement.
• Collaborate with spiritual care, palliative care, and ethics for patient advocacy.
• Coordinate care with family members or caregivers.
• Clinically manage patients with multi‑system organ failure and/or multisystem trauma.
• Use AACN Synergy Model to restore, support, promote, rehabilitate, or palliate to maintain physiological, psychological, and psychosocial stability.
• Synthesize and prioritize information for evidence‑based, patient‑focused action.
• Anticipate and respond confidently to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Respond to patients and families coping with unanticipated illness or injury; advocate for their quality‑of‑life choices.
• Practice in accordance with BSMH Nursing Professional Practice Model.

Licensing / Certification:

• Current RN license in state of practice or covered by compact (required)
• BLS Basic Life Support (preferred upon hire; must obtain prior to direct patient care)
• ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred)
• CCRN Critical Care Registered Nurse (preferred)
• PCCN Progressive Care Certified Nurse (preferred)
• NIH Stroke Certification (preferred)

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (preferred)

Work Experience:

• 6 months RN experience in an acute care hospital setting (preferred)
• New graduates welcome to apply

Training:

• EPIC Electronic Health Record (EHR) training (preferred)
• Critical Care Course (preferred)

Skills:

• Assign patient care per scope of practice
• Facilitate learning experiences and provide education to staff
• Demonstrate clinical knowledge and competency with evidence‑based care
• Perform comprehensive assessment of clinical condition and psychosocial needs
• Develop, implement, and prioritize plan of care efficiently
• Apply nursing process in patient care delivery
• Assess patient responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness; revise plan accordingly
• Assist patients and families in coping with illness
• Collaborate with other professionals in coordinated care
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/write communication skills
• Apply cultural diversity and inclusion principles
• Recognize limits and seek assistance as needed
• Engage in educational programs, literature, in‑services, workshops for professional growth
• Exhibit professionalism and accountability
• Integrate cost‑effective measures and stewardship of resources
• Practice self‑care and resilience in conflict situations
• Protect safety and privacy of all persons
• Understand and utilize office and clinical technologies
• Communicate with patients in understandable language
• Compassionate, relationship‑based approach to meaning in illness
• Remain calm, adaptive, and composed during emergencies
• Manage care of patients with chest tubes
• Assess patients through hemodynamic monitoring
• Insert and monitor transvenous pacing/temporary pacing
• Administer conscious sedation
• Knowledge of advanced respiratory modalities

Working Conditions:

• High stress and…