Dayshift RN, IMCU

Job Overview

At Bon Secours Mercy Health, we are dedicated to continually improving health care quality, safety, and cost effectiveness. Our hospitals, care sites, and clinicians are recognized for clinical and operational excellence.

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

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

• Current RN license in state of work or covered by compact (required).
• BLS Basic Life Support or ACLS Advanced Cardiac Life Support (preferred at hire; ACLS required within 6 months).
• 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).

• Assign patient care according to nursing skill, knowledge, and scope of practice.
• Orient, facilitate learning experience, and provide education to nursing staff and others.
• Possess clinical knowledge, skills, and competency aligned with current standards of practice.
• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient’s clinical condition and psychosocial needs.
• Safely and efficiently develop, implement, and prioritize plan of care.
• Apply nursing process in patient care delivery.
• Assess patient’s physical and emotional responses to treatment to evaluate effectiveness.
• Assist patient and family in coping with illness.
• Collaborate with other professionals for coordinated care.
• Publish strong interpersonal and written communication skills.
• Apply cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Recognize limitations and seek assistance to perform safely.
• Engage in personal and professional growth through educational programs.
• Exhibit professionalism through accountability for own and delegated actions.
• Integrate cost‑effective measures and steward resources.
• Practice self‑care and cultivate resilience.
• Protect safety and privacy of persons.
• Utilize office and clinical technologies.
• Communicate with patients understandably.
• Maintain compassionate, relationship‑based care.
• Remain calm, adaptive, and collaborative during emergencies.
• Manage patients with chest tubes, hemodynamic monitoring, and transvenous/temporary pacing.
• Administer conscious sedation and use advanced respiratory modalities.

• Periods of high stress and fluctuating workloads.
• Potential exposure to physical altercations and…