Weekend Float Registered Nurse

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse, Weekend Float Pool (Full-Time Nights)

• Coverage: DeKalb, IL and Sandwich, IL (must be available to work at both locations)

• Weekend premium: Additional $5.00/hour for eligible float hours, on top of base hourly rate

Description

Weekend Float Pool RN supports two hospital locations and provides clinically competent registered nursing care to acutely ill patients. Care is delivered through the nursing process—assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation—while coordinating with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff. This position aligns with organizational compliance, ethics, and ANA professional nursing practice standards.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze data; identify expected outcomes; develop and implement individualized plans; evaluate progress

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

• Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff; create documented, outcome-focused plans and communicate care decisions

• Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects

• Evaluate and document patient responses to interventions in the health record and individualize the plan of care

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

Requirements

• BSN or ADN with commitment to obtain a BSN within three years of the first day of employment in the clinical nurse role

• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse (RN) license

• Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others

• Strong analytic abilities

Additional Requirements (if assigned)

• Emergency Room: ACLS and PALS/ENPC & TNCC or TNS within one year of hire

• Pediatric Emergency Room: Pediatric Advanced Life Support; TNCC within one year of hire

• Non-Invasive Cardiology: ACLS

Benefits

Offers a wide range of benefits to support employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well-being and provide protection for unexpected life events. Benefits eligibility depends on employment classification, and sign-on bonus eligibility rules apply if included in the posting.