Registered Nurse (Inpatient Critical Care)

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse (Inpatient Critical Care)

• Schedule: Three 12-hour shifts, 7:00 PM–7:30 AM; every third weekend (Friday and Saturday nights) and rotating holidays

Description

Provide clinically competent inpatient nursing care to acutely ill patients using the nursing process—assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff while maintaining professional nursing practice standards.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze patient data; identify outcomes; develop, implement, and evaluate an individualized plan of care

• Direct nursing care and determine appropriate utilization of any assistant providing direct patient care

• Create documented plans focused on outcomes and communicate care decisions with patients and families

• Participate in shared governance, committees, and unit projects

• Evaluate and document patient responses to nursing interventions; individualize the plan of care based on findings

• Use best available evidence, including research findings, to guide clinical decisions

Requirements

• BSN

• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license

• American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to collaborate with others

• Strong analytic abilities

• Preferred: experience in high acuity inpatient nursing

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events (see benefits site for details).