RN Critical Care Step-down

Company: Beaumont Health
Location: Ann Arbor
Posted on: March 15, 2023

Job Description:

RN Critical Care Step-down

Now offering a $10,000 sign on bonus for this Full-time, 12-hour (7pm-7:30am) Midnight shift position at Beaumont Grosse Pointe.

Improve health, instill humanity, and inspire hope. That's just the beginning of the difference you can make when you join our team of Registered Nurses on the Intermediate Medical Care Unit at Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe.

A 39-bed unit, Critical Care Step Down is committed to providing high quality patient and family centered care for patient populations with various medical conditions including pulmonary, cardiac, neurological disorders, and post-operative care for the surgical patient who requires a higher level of nursing care. CCSU also cares for ventilated tracheostomy patients.

All unit staff attends both hospital and nursing orientation and receives unit-specific orientation. Unit and core competencies are completed during the orientation process. Our team consists of RNs and NAs, and teamwork is critical for building a cohesive nursing unit.

GENERAL SUMMARY:

As a Registered Nurse, under the ANA scope of practice, you will utilize the framework of the nursing process to provide professional nursing care by incorporating patient-family centered care principles. The Registered Nurse provides quality patient care under the direction of the Nurse Leader according to Beaumont policies and procedures.

BENEFITS

Beaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.

• NEW On-demand pay program - powered by payactiv
• Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
• Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
• Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plans
• Relocation assistance
• Generous retirement savings, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance
• Free onsite parking at all campuses STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
    • Education / Training: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Diploma, A.D.N., B.S.N., M.S.N., DNP/PhD - if not minimum BSN prepared, new graduate/nurse with less than one (1) year experience is required to sign an educational contract upon hire to complete BSN within specified timeframe and adhere to contract stipulations. RN must enroll in an accredited BSN program within one (1) year of hire date and complete within the next three (3) years. This is effective September 1, 2017. Specialty Certification highly recommended after 2 years in specialty.
      • Work Experience: As required by job posting
        • Certification, Licensure, Registration: RN with active license in State of Michigan
          • Other Qualifications:
            • Current American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Providers certification and other certifications as required by department.
            • ACLS within 6 months of hire/transfer. ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
              
              
            • Apply the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and discharge needs of patient/family/significant other.
            • Apply the Core Concepts of Patient- and Family-Centered Care (PFCC) in practice and uses this knowledge to personalize care for each patient/family.
            • Recognize the impact of nursing care and patient/family partnerships on patient outcomes.
            • Partner with and utilizes patient/family input and goals in planning plan of care.
            • Provide quality care that meets or exceeds the expectations of value (core measures, quality matrix, patient experience, fiscally responsible).
            • Aid individuals in a manner that considers their special needs, age-related and cultural-related needs.
            • Recognize the roles of the interdisciplinary team, patient and family care partners and utilizes them appropriately as resources in planning patient care.
            • Delegate appropriate tasks.
            • Demonstrate knowledge of and competently performs technical procedures and uses equipment properly.
            • Document in the patient record in a timely, accurate and concise manner. Develops teaching strategies for patient/family; documents education and learning appropriately in health record.
            • Demonstrate leadership in the professional practice setting and is responsible for continuing personal education, mentoring peers, and educating patients and families.
            • Stays up to date with current health system initiatives and incorporates evidence-based practice and research into practice. Maintains current knowledge in area of clinical practice.
            • Complete a self-appraisal that includes professional goals annually and completes peer review.
            • Participate in department-based activities, staff meetings and committees.
            • Actively participates in hand offs of care, including the patient, family, and partners in care.
            • Demonstrate knowledge, understanding and embraces cultural traditions and lore of community served. This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.
              
              WORKING CONDITIONS:
              
              
            • Physical Effort :
              • Strength Position requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 30 lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability to lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift to 40 lbs.
                • Manual Dexterity Position requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as positioning patients.
                  • Coordination Position requires incumbent to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking. Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and pulses.
                    • Mobility Position requires incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods, frequently bend such as when caring for a patient in bed.
                      • Visual Discrimination Position requires incumbent to constantly see objects far away as in driving and see close objects such as reading thermometers.
                        • Hearing Position requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering phone/intercom. Frequently be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.
                          
                          
                        • Work Environment :
                          • Employee may be frequently exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs. Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxins, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances. Infrequently exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids. Seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature, grease, oil, and radiation.
                          • Potential risk of an exposure to hazardous medications or waste materials of hazardous medications.
                            Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe
                            Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best hospitals in the nation, Beaumont, Grosse Pointe is a Magnet -designated facility that provides exceptional nursing and advanced medical, surgical, emergency, obstetric and critical care services for patients throughout the greater Grosse Pointe area. This facility is home to The James and Patricia Anderson Surgical Center, a leading-edge, hybrid surgical unit that offers advanced technologies to perform a wide array of procedures ranging from traditional to minimally invasive approaches. And, the Cotton Family Birth Center has received the Baby Friendly designation by Baby-Friendly USA.
                            
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