Registered Nurse (Float Pool)

Quick Facts

• Registered Professional Nurse (Illinois)
• Float/CDH Resource Team role with full-time nights

Description

Provide clinically competent, registered professional nursing care for acutely ill patients using the full nursing process—assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff to collect/analyze patient data, develop and individualize outcome-focused care plans, and document responses to nursing interventions. Use best available evidence, including research findings, to guide practice decisions.

Responsibilities

• Prescribe, delegate, and coordinate nursing care through the nursing process
• Maintain ANA standards of professional nursing practice in all patient interactions
• Collect and analyze data, identify expected outcomes, implement individualized plans, and evaluate progress
• Direct care and determine appropriate use of any assistant involved in direct patient care
• Collaborate with patients, families, physicians, and ancillary staff; create documented outcome-focused care plans
• Evaluate and document patient responses to nursing interventions in the health record
• Use best available evidence, including research, to guide clinical decisions
• Participate in shared governance, committee work, and unit projects

Requirements

• BSN or ADN; commitment to obtain a BSN from an accredited program within 3 years of first day in the clinical nurse role
• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license
• Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate with others
• Strong analytic abilities
• Emergency Room additional requirements: ACLS; PALS/ENPC & TNCC within 1 year of hire
• Pediatric Emergency Room additional requirements: Pediatric Advanced Life Support; TNCC within 1 year of hire

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support physical, emotional, and financial well-being, plus protection for unexpected life events
• If a sign-on bonus is included: eligibility depends on internal status and rehire timing; new graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical Registered Nurse position may be eligible