Float Pool Registered Nurse (RN) - Nights

Quick Facts

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

• Schedule: 3x 12-hour shifts per week with rotating weekends/holidays

• Locations: Kishwaukee Hospital and Valley West Hospital (must be available for both)

• Compensation: Additional $5.00/hour for eligible float pool hours (on top of base hourly rate)

Description

You’ll support inpatient nursing care as a clinically competent, registered nurse who assesses, plans, implements, and evaluates nursing care for acutely ill patients. The role involves collaboration with patients, families, physicians, and the health care team while maintaining professional nursing standards and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care through assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation

• Coordinate individualized care plans and document outcomes and decisions

• Collect and analyze patient data to identify expected outcomes

• Direct care and determine appropriate use of any assistant involved in patient care

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

• Participate in shared governance, committees, and unit projects

• Evaluate and document patient responses to interventions in the health record

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

Requirements

• BSN or ADN; ADN must include commitment to obtain a BSN within 3 years of the first day in the clinical nurse role

• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license

• Basic Life Support (BLS)

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate

• Strong analytic abilities

• Additional certifications may be required based on assigned area:

  • Emergency Room: ACLS; PALS/ENPC and TNCC within 1 year of hire

  • Pediatric Emergency Room: Pediatric Advanced Life Support; TNCC within 1 year of hire

Benefits

• A wide range of benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events

• Detailed benefits information available via the employer benefits page

• Benefits eligibility depends on employment classification

• Sign-on bonus eligibility: internal employees/rehires who left within 1 year are not eligible; exception for new graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed RN position