Description
Job Description
At PeaceHealth, our vision is simple yet powerful: Every person receives safe, compassionate care—every time, every touch. As a Registered Nurse at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, you’ll be part of a collaborative, mission-driven team dedicated to providing exceptional care to our patients. If this resonates with you, consider joining our nursing team in the following :
What we offer you:
Position Details:
Qualifications
Lifting
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For full consideration of your skills and abilities, please attach a current resume with your application. EEO Affirmative Action Employer/Vets/Disabled in accordance with applicable local, state, or federal laws.
Job Description
At PeaceHealth, our vision is simple yet powerful: Every person receives safe, compassionate care—every time, every touch. As a Registered Nurse at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, you’ll be part of a collaborative, mission-driven team dedicated to providing exceptional care to our patients. If this resonates with you, consider joining our nursing team in the following :
- Role: Full-Time RN in the ICU Stepdown unit
- Schedule: .9 FTE working three 12 -hour night shifts, 1830-0700.
- Location: PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, Vancouver,
What we offer you:
- Competitive Pay: $52.22 – $77.59/hour (based on experience and qualifications)
- Additional Incentives:
- Relocation Assistance
- Extra pay for BSN, MSN, DPN, and specialty certifications
- Professional Nurse Advancement Program with financial rewards
- Comprehensive Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision coverage effective the first of the month after hire
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer contributions
- Paid time off, life and disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement & continuing education support
- Culture of Care: Mission-driven, inclusive, and committed to caregiver well-being—physical, emotional, financial, social, and spiritual
Position Details:
- Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care needs.
- Documents patient care in the healthcare record according to established standards.
- Directs and delegates care to other team members in accordance with their education, credentials, and demonstrated competence.
- Ensures own professional effectiveness through education and professional development.
- Participates in the development of and maintains established hospital policies, procedures and objectives, quality improvement, safety, environmental and infection prevention program.
- Management of ventriculostomy, EVD, and ICP. Nursing care of patients with non-traumatic ICH, non-traumatic SAH, seizures. Nursing care of patients post tPA, thrombectomy, aneurysm coiling, carotid artery stenting and intra-cranial stenting. Management of blood pressure abnormalities with parenteral vasoactive agents. Completion of complex neurological assessments/scales.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Accredited School of Nursing
- Requires: Minimum 1 year or more of recent continuous critical care experience, completion of a critical care intern/ residency program, or 3 years in an acute care setting with 400 hours in a critical care unit within the previous year.
- Critical care nursing experience preferred.
- Required: Registered Nurse - Washington State
- Required: Upon Hire Basic Life Support Certification
- Required: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and NIHSS Certification required within 6 months of hire,
- Trauma Nurse Core Course (TNCC) required within 12 months of hire for RN's working on Tower 4.
- Preferred: Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification and BSN
- Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to apply age specific principles of growth and development and life stages to meet each patient’s needs (Required)
- Demonstrated ability to promote positive interpersonal relationships and patient/family centered work environment (Required)
- Able to support and interpret medical center philosophy, policy and procedures (Required)
- Basic computer skills (Required)
Lifting
- Patient handling no greater than 35 lbs. without the use of assistive equipment and/or devices (NIOSH).
- Fine motor skills to be able to grasp and control medical equipment and perform precise procedures.
- Push/Pull: Frequently up to 45 lbs. force (i.e., WOW, medical carts).
- Perform hands on CPR at least 20 mins using 100-125 lbs. of force (National Assoc. of EMS Physicians and AHA) Frequency should be seldom or occasionally.
- Ability to move around area with frequent sitting.
- Bending/ stooping/ squatting/ reaching/ kneeling frequently.
- Lifting (non-patient) up to 20 lbs. occasionally and 5 lbs. frequently.
- Exposure to biohazard, body fluids and airborne particles.
- Must be able to complete tasks in a noisy environment.
- Vision and hearing required within normal limits (glasses, contacts, hearing aids permitted).
- Ability to communicate and exchange accurate information.
See how PeaceHealth is committed to
For full consideration of your skills and abilities, please attach a current resume with your application. EEO Affirmative Action Employer/Vets/Disabled in accordance with applicable local, state, or federal laws.
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