Dayshift RN, IMCU

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Mercy Health’s mission is to help our patients be well in mind, body and spirit. Our shared purpose and history of faith inspire our teams to work toward every day. Join our exceptional team and help us continue to provide the highest quality of health care to our communities.

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

• Conduct initial and ongoing patient assessment, analyze assessment data, create a plan of care, implement treatment, and evaluate treatment effectiveness.
• Administer medications in a safe manner consistent with the State of Practice and Bon Secours Mercy Health policies and procedures.
• Serve as point of contact for patients' care coordination throughout hospital departments.
• Act as a patient safety advocate by participating in ongoing quality improvement in the department.
• Serve as patient advocate in collaboration with spiritual care, palliative care, and ethics.
• Serve as a point of care with care coordination and family members or caregivers.
• Clinically manage patients with multi‑system organ failure and/or multisystem trauma.
• Using the AACN Synergy Model, restore, support, promote, rehabilitate, or palliate to maintain the physiological, psychological, and psychosocial stability of patients across the lifespan.
• Synthesize and prioritize information to take immediate and decisive evidence‑based, patient‑focused action using clinical judgment and clinical inquiry.
• Anticipate and respond with confidence and adapt to rapidly changing patient conditions.
• Respond to the unique needs of patients and families coping with unanticipated illness or injury and treatment, and advocate for their choices in quality of life.
• BSMH nurses are expected to practice and deliver care in accordance with the core concepts and intention of the BSMH Nursing Professional Practice Model.

• Current RN license in the state they are working or covered by compact (required).
• BLS Basic Life Support or ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred at hire; must obtain from approved source prior to direct patient care, ACLS required within 6 months of hire).
• CCRN Critical Care Registered Nurse (preferred).
• PCCN Progressive Care Certified Nurse (preferred).
• National Institute of Health (NIH) Stroke Certification (preferred).

• Bachelor of Science Nursing (preferred).

• 6 months RN experience in an acute care hospital setting (preferred).

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

• Assigns patient care according to the nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice of staff.
• Orients, facilitates learning experience, and provides education based on quality improvement indicators, outcomes, and implementation to nursing staff and others.
• Possesses clinical knowledge, skills, and competency to provide evidence-based patient care in accordance with current standards of practice, policy and procedure, and BSMH mission.
• Performs comprehensive assessment of patient’s clinical condition and psychosocial needs of the patient and their supportive resources.
• Safely and efficiently develops, implements, and prioritizes plan of care.
• Application of the nursing process in patient care delivery.
• Assesses patient’s physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness of intervention and patient outcomes; revises plan of care accordingly.
• Assists patient and family in coping with patient’s illness.
• Collaborates with others in the delivery of coordinated patient care.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Applies cultural diversity and inclusion principles when caring for patients…