Registered Nurse (Surgical Step-Down / Intermediate Care)

Quick Facts

• Role: Registered Nurse (Surgical Intermediate / Step-Down)

• Schedule: Full time nights (7:00 PM–7:30 AM) with rotating weekends

• Unit: 26-bed surgical unit for adult patients with complex acute medical, surgical, and cardiac conditions

Description

Provide direct inpatient nursing care for acutely ill adult patients with complex surgical cases and appropriate step-down needs. Use the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualized care plans, coordinating delivery with the healthcare team. The ideal patient assignment ratio is 1:3–4 for step-down level of care.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze patient data; identify expected outcomes; develop and implement individualized plans of care

• Coordinate care delivery and evaluate progress toward outcomes

• Direct care and determine appropriate utilization of assistants in patient care

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

• Participate in shared governance, committees, and unit projects

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

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

Requirements

• BSN

• Current Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license

• American Heart Association BLS certification

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate

• Strong analytic abilities

• If holding an ADN instead of BSN: commitment to obtain a BSN within 3 years of the first day in the clinical nurse role

• Preferred: Experience in Surgical Stepdown

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being and protection for unexpected life events. Sign-on bonus may be available based on eligibility rules (internal employees/rehires within 1 year not eligible; certain new graduate internal employees may be eligible).