$10,000 Retention/Sign on Bonus for all Full-Time Applicants!
MISSION, VALUES and SERVICE GOALS
- MISSION: We deliver outstanding care, inspire health, and connect with heart.
- VALUES: Trust. Respect. Integrity. Compassion.
- SERVICE GOALS: Personally connect. Keep everyone informed. Be on their team.
Provides professional nursing services by:
- Performing the priority (high risk, high frequency) technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally.
- Establishing and/or revising priorities for job/patient care activities based on the acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference/request, consideration for other department or staff priorities, timelines and plans.
- Responding to data indicating potential or actual risk to an individual’s physical or emotional health by initiating action to correct, reduce or prevent the risk.
- Advocating for the patient or family when necessary to achieve appropriate outcomes.
- Maintaining accountability for own and delegated actions and decisions. Bases actions and decisions on scientific principles/logic, successful experiences, intuition, standards of practice/protocols, and organizational values.
- Seeking supervision, consultation, or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently.
- Using internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently.
Provides information to and directs others to provide quality patient care by:
- Developing or revising a plan of care for assigned patients based on initial and ongoing data. Includes measurable goals/outcomes; reflects values, preferences and limitations of patient and/or family; identifies interventions to achieve outcomes/goals; addresses pertinent physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and learning problems/needs.
- Initiating or maintaining interventions to assure continuity of safe-effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care.
- Modifying, continuing or discontinuing interventions, goals, or time frames, according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency and/or patient satisfaction.
- Documenting, consistently and within established guidelines, assessments, interventions, actions, data collection results and outcomes of interventions.
- Using interpersonal communication strategies with all members of the team in order to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction by those involved.
- Delegating to other staff members based upon acuity/complexity of need, role definition and ability to perform, collective needs of patients, families and unit. Maintains accountability for achieving appropriate outcomes/goals associated with delegated acts.
Performs other functions to maintain personal competence and contribute to the overall effectiveness of the department by:
- Maintaining awareness of advances in clinical specialty.
- Contributing to the department’s ability to achieve and maintain clinical excellence, customer focused-service excellence, fiscal responsibility, innovative and talented people, and the best place to work.
- Following through and completing other job-related assignments or requests for assistance.
- Contributing to the development of co-workers through positive role modeling, resource assistance and direct feedback.
ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Associate complies with the following organizational requirements:
- Attends and participates in department meetings and is accountable for all information shared.
- Completes mandatory education, annual competencies and department specific education within established timeframes.
- Completes annual employee health requirements within established timeframes.
- Maintains license/certification, registration in good standing throughout fiscal year.
- Direct patient care providers are required to maintain current BCLS (CPR) and other certifications as required by position/department.
- Consistently utilizes appropriate universal precautions, protective equipment, and ergonomic techniques to protect patient and self.
- Adheres to regulatory agency requirements, survey process and compliance.
- Complies with established organization and department policies.
- Available to work overtime in addition to working additional or other shifts and schedules when required.
Commitment to Beacon's six-point Operating System, referred to as The Beacon Way:
- Leverage innovation everywhere.
- Cultivate human talent.
- Embrace performance improvement.
- Build greatness through accountability.
- Use information to improve and advance.
- Communicate clearly and continuously.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Demonstrates a high level of knowledge and competency in performing nursing care procedures, assessments, treatment and techniques.
- Demonstrates advanced analytical skills necessary to solve complex problems and make decisions related to patient care.
- Demonstrates the interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, patients, visitors, physicians and others.
- Demonstrates ability to communicate, both verbally and in writing, in a clear and concise manner.
- Requires an understanding of the need to be responsive and reasonably adaptable for scheduling purposes, when necessary, due to extenuating circumstances in support of co-workers and department functions.
- Requires the ability to work independently, take initiative and be self-motivated.
Working Conditions:
- Works in a patient care environment requiring physical exertion, frequent changes in job demands, and certain undesirable patient care activities.
- May be exposed to biohazards.
Physical Demands:
- Requires the physical ability and stamina (i.e., to walk/stand for prolonged periods of time, push carts/wheelchairs up to 50 pounds, to position/lift patients at a maximum of 35 pounds unassisted, over 35 pounds requires assistance, provide CPR, etc.) to perform the essential functions of the position.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract, PRN, Permanent
Pay: $29.00 - $43.08 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Medical specialties:
- Critical & Intensive Care
- Emergency Medicine
- Medical-Surgical
- Physical & Rehabilitation Medicine
Physical setting:
Standard shift:
Supplemental schedule:
Weekly schedule:
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Education:
Experience:
- Nursing: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- BLS Certification (Preferred)
- RN License in Michigan (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Three Rivers, MI 49093 (Preferred)
Work Location: In person