Rn- Mother/Baby, Pediatrics

Registered Nurse, Mother/Baby, Pediatrics

High Point, NC

Embark on a rewarding journey as a Registered Nurse (full time, nights) in our Mother/Baby, Pediatrics unit at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center. Join our compassionate team and make a lasting impact.

Position Highlights:  

• Sign-on Bonus: $10,000 sign-on bonus eligible position for qualified candidates!  
• Shift Schedule:  Full time, Nights, 7pm - 7:00am, with weekend rotation 
• Department:  Mother/Baby, Pediatrics
• Location:  Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center

What We Offer: 

• Generous PTO: Accrual of up to 25 days/year, to be used for vacations, sickness, holidays, and personal matters. 
• Education Reimbursement:We invest in your professional growth, offering up to $2,500 per year towards a bachelor's degree and up to $5,000 per year towards a graduate degree. 
• Wellness Incentives:Take advantage of up to $1,350 per year in wellness incentives through our LiveWELL program, prioritizing your well-being. 
• Parental Benefits:We understand the importance of family, providing six weeks of paid birthing-mother maternity leave and four weeks of paid parental leave. 
• Retirement:Secure your financial future with up to 7% employer-paid retirement contributions. 

What You'll Need: 

• Graduation from accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred. 
• Registered Nurse licensure from the State of North Carolina.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required. 
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) required within 1 year of hire for Adult Critical Care, Adult ED 
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) required within 1 year of hire for Network ED, Peds ED, PICU and NICU, and other areas per unit guidelines.
• Ability to provide direct and indirect patient care. 
• Strong interpersonal communication skills. 
• Ability to work collaboratively. 
• Solid written and oral communication skills.

How You'll Impact Patient Care: 

Provides nursing care to patients using the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation). Directs and leads other assigned team members and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members to provide age/developmentally appropriate care in accordance with nursing standards of care and practice.

Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to:  

1. Patient/Family Centered Care: Provide patient/family centered care using the nursing process and focusing on the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs. This includes providing for the assessment, development of nursing diagnoses, outcome identification, planning, implementation of interventions, coordination of care, health teaching and promotion and evaluation of goals and interventions consistent with the policies of WFBMC.
2. Patient Discharge & Referrals: Participates in multidisciplinary discharge planning referrals to hospital and community resources as needed. 
3. Safe, Therapeutic, and Healing Environment: Create a secure and healing environment by safeguarding patient privacy and ensuring responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior. Embrace technology and equipment to enhance patient and staff safety. 
4. Effective Communication: Demonstrate excellent communication skills to foster collaboration among the healthcare team, facilitating information sharing throughout the continuum of care. Active participation in our professional practice model and shared governance initiatives will promote teamwork, leadership, and clinical excellence. 
5. Professional Growth and Accountability: Function effectively in a professional setting by actively participating in peer review, professional development, and adherence to care standards. Exhibit effective team skills, autonomous practice, and critical thinking, acknowledging accountability for actions. 
6. Point of Care Testing: Performs and maintains competency for point-of-care testing as assigned, waived and or non-waived, ensuring compliance with WFBH policies and with applicable state and federal regulations.
7. Patient Advocacy: Act as a passionate patient advocate throughout the continuum of care, advocating for their needs and preferences in all patient settings, including the community. 
8. Care Management and Clinical Prioritization: Coordinate the effective and efficient delivery of patient care services by applying care management principles. Identify clinical priorities and initiate action to continuously improve patient outcomes.
9. Promotion of Healthy Work Environment: Embrace and contribute to our professional practice model through active participation in shared governance, promoting a healthy and supportive work environment. Take personal responsibility for professional growth and development.

Work Environment:

• Ability to tolerate moderate to high stress levels
• Subject to occasional crowded conditions
• Moderate noise environment
• Handles emergency or crisis situations
• Subject to many interruptions and stressful situations
• Regular exposure to the risk of blood borne diseases, infections and contagious diseases
• Contact with patients, family members, community members, co-workers and medical staff under a wide variety of circumstances
• Handles absentee replacement on short notice
• Required to wear PPE 

If you are a dedicated nurse looking to make a difference in patient care, we welcome you to be a part of our team in Mother/Baby, Pediatrics at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist High Point Medical Center. Join us and experience the fulfillment of providing exceptional healthcare in a supportive and dynamic environment.  Apply today! 

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.

This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.