About this role
Department: ICU
Daily Work Times: 7:00am-7:00pm
Shift: Days
Scheduled Bi-Weekly Hours: 72
Benefits:
• 403(b)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
Responsible for the delivery of nursing care within the assigned unit scope of practice following hospital policies and procedures, nursing process guidelines, standards of care, and standards of practice.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
1. Assesses each assigned patient, documents and evaluates their response to plan of care, and takes appropriate corrective action.
2. Plans and implements the patient’s plan of care/standard of care and provides patient teaching using the plan of care/standard of care.
3. Oversee all ancillary personnel for technical tasks.
4. Seeks to improve quality of service by continuously developing individual and unit competencies within scope of practice.
5. Integrates into practice the research of best practice benchmarking and clinical pathways, participates and cooperates with ongoing studies and clinical trials promotion and dissemination of research through professional forums including presentations and publications.
6. Measures, identifies and implements strategies to improve clinical practice outcomes and patient safety initiatives, and designs and monitors system nursing improvement plans.
7. Analyzes data to determine outcomes of infection prevention, nursing sensitive indicators, clinical effectiveness, standardization of processes, and patient safety measures and initiatives including AOA standards, CMS guidelines, and National Patient Safety goals.
8. Assumes the role of contact nurse as defined on each unit.
9. Performs other related responsibilities as necessary.
* Employees hired into a full time weekend position shall commit to work 72 hours per pay period between 7:00 a.m. Friday and 7:00 a.m. Tuesday. Employees hired into a part time Weekend Baylor position shall commit to work 48 hours per pay period between 7:00 a.m. Friday and 7:00 a.m. Tuesday.
Required:
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
- Experience in a specialty area will be considered. Experience specific to the unit/position may be required to maintain overall competency level of unit, as required by regulatory agency.
- Current State of Michigan Registered Nurse license.
- American Heart Association or American Red Cross BLS certification as Healthcare Provider.
- Within six months of hire into department, ACLS required for RNs in Critical Care, Emergency, Endoscopy, Cardiac Cath Lab, Cardiac Rehab, Intensive Care Unit and Step-Down, Telemetry Floats. NRP required for RNs in Labor and Delivery; and PALS required for RNs in Pediatrics; PALS and TNCC within one year for the Emergency Department.
Preferred:
- One year of professional nursing experience.
- ACLS preferred in other units.
Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Females/Disabled/Veterans.
Other facts
About McLaren Health Care
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 28,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
As part of its Graduate Medical Education (GME) program, McLaren maintains academic affiliations with medical schools at Wayne State University, Michigan State University and Central Medical University. McLaren’s seven (7) GME campuses offer 27 residencies and eight (8) fellowship programs that train over 650 future physicians annually. All GME programs at McLaren are overseen and managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs.
What you'll do
- The Registered Nurse is responsible for delivering nursing care within the ICU, assessing patients, implementing care plans, and overseeing ancillary personnel. They also focus on improving clinical outcomes and patient safety through data analysis and quality improvement initiatives.
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