RN MSICU PRN

Improve health, instill humanity and inspire hope. That’s just the beginning of the difference you can make when you join our team of SICU Nurses at Beaumont Health, Royal Oak.
Discover what comes next for your nursing career when you join a collaborative team whose clarity, compassion, curiosity and courage are advancing medicine and setting new standards for exceptional care. 

BENEFITS STATEMENT:

Beaumont offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.

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• Our employees receive special discounts on a wide range of products and services
• Free onsite employee parking

UNIT SUMMARY: We are a fast paced 12 bed ICU.  We manage a complex patient population which include both medical and surgical patients.  Medical patient includes serve sepsis, respiratory failure requiring advanced airway management, GIB (GI bleeding) requiring massive blood transfusion, kidney failure requiring CRRT, and multi organ failure with invasive and noninvasive monitoring.  Surgical patients include post op pts that have various procedures/operations such as new trachs, abdominal, urological and vascular surgeries.  Nurse should be able to manage high acuity patient team as well as assisting in bedside procedures and traveling with patient for procedures and testing off the unit. 

• Specific must-haves for new hires/transfer:

Teamwork is the basis for our team.  RNs must be team orientated and willing to be flexible in the care, assignments and flow of the unit while support the other staff members. MSICU RN should be able to coordinate care with the multidisciplinary team including providers, patient’s family, and ancillary staff.  Be supportive of our unit initiatives and willing to participate in the growth of our unit and staff members.  A professional, calm and caring demeanor is necessary to provide effective care to our critically ill population. 

GENERAL SUMMARY:

The clinical nurse, under the ANA scope of practice utilizes the framework of the nursing process to provide professional nursing care by incorporating patient-family centered care principles. The Clinical Nurse provides quality patient care under the direction of the Nurse Leader according to Beaumont policies and procedures.

STANDARD QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

A. Education / Training:

· Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with an associate degree or higher. Diploma, A.D.N., B.S.N., M.S.N., DNP/PhD – if not minimum BSN prepared, new graduate/nurse with less than one (1) year experience is required to sign an educational contract upon hire to complete BSN within specified timeframe and adhere to contract stipulations. RN must enroll in an accredited BSN program within one (1) year of licensure date and complete within the next four (4) years. This is effective September 1, 2017.

B. Work Experience:

· 2 years related acute care nursing experience. Must demonstrate proficiency through competency testing in all nursing areas eligible for floating.

C. Certification, Licensure, Registration:

· RN with active license in State of Michigan. Specialty Certification highly recommended after 2 years in specialty.

D. Other Qualifications:

· Current American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Providers certification and other certifications as required by department.

· Critical Care: ACLS within 6 months of hire/transfer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

1. Applies the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and discharge needs of patient/family/significant other.

2. Applies the Core Concepts of Patient- and Family-Centered Care (PFCC) in practice and uses this knowledge to personalize care for each patient/family.

3. Recognizes the impact of nursing care and patient/family partnerships on patient outcomes.

4. Partners with and utilizes patient/family input and goals in planning of care.

5. Provides quality care that meets or exceeds the expectations of value (core measures, quality matrix, patient experience, fiscally responsible).

6. Provides assistance to individuals in a manner that takes into account their special needs, age-related and cultural-related needs.

7. Recognizes the roles of the interdisciplinary team, patient and family care partners and utilizes them appropriately as resources in planning patient care.

8. Delegates appropriate tasks.

9. Demonstrates knowledge of and competently performs technical procedures and uses equipment properly.

10. Documents in the patient record in a timely, accurate and concise manner. Develops teaching strategies for patient/family; documents education and learning appropriately in health record.

11. Demonstrates leadership in the professional practice setting and is responsible for continuing personal education, mentoring peers and educating patients and families.

12. Stays up to date with current health system initiatives and incorporates evidence based practice and research into practice. Maintains current knowledge in area of clinical practice.

13. Completes a self-appraisal that includes professional goals annually and completes peer review.

14. Participates in department-based activities, staff meetings and committees.

15. Actively participates in hand-offs of care, including the patient, family and partners in care.

16. Demonstrates knowledge, understanding and embraces cultural traditions and lore of community served.

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions. It should be understood, therefore, that incumbents may be asked to perform job-related duties beyond those explicitly described.

STANDARD REQUIREMENTS:

1. Supports the Mission, Value and Vision of Beaumont Health (BH). Demonstrates personal commitment through active involvement in the performance improvement process.

2. Exhibits excellent customer service skills and behaviors toward internal and external customers and co-workers. Promotes positive public relations with patients/residents, family members, guests, and others.

3. Supports and adheres to all Beaumont Health’s customer service, service excellence, and performance standards. Supports and participates with all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organizations including in-service training, acceptable attendance, uniform and dress code.

4. Adheres to HIPAA requirements and maintains confidentiality of all data, including patient/resident, employee and operations information.

5. Supports and participates in a collaborative team-oriented environment – cooperates and works together with all co-workers, plans and completes job duties, uses appropriate communications in sensitive and emotional situations and follows up as appropriate regarding reported complaints, problems and concerns.

6. Supports, cooperates with and demonstrates safe work practices and attitudes, follows safety rules – including universal precautions - reports and prevents/corrects unsafe conditions and behaviors, and participates in organizational and departmental safety programs.

7. Completes all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organization.

8. Maintains current licensure, registration and/or certification, as applicable, at all times.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

A. Physical Effort:

· Strength

Position requires ability to frequently push/pull up to 30 lb. objects with assist of others, occasional requires ability to lift objects more than 50 lbs. with others, constantly lift objects up to 20 lbs. And frequently lift up to 40 lbs.

· Manual Dexterity

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing. Position requires incumbent to frequently perform moderately difficult manipulative skills such as positioning patients.

· Coordination

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform gross body coordination such as walking. Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and pulses.

· Mobility

Positions requires incumbent to constantly walk and stand; occasionally sit for prolonged periods, frequently bend such as when caring for a patient in bed.

· Visual Discrimination

Positions requires incumbent to constantly see objects far away as in driving and see close objects such as reading thermometers.

· Hearing

Positions requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering phone/intercom. Frequently be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.

B. Work Environment:

· Employee may be frequently exposed to electro-magnetic radiations as in VDTs. Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxins, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances. Infrequently exposed to blood, body tissue, or fluids. Seldom exposed to fluctuations in temperature, grease, oil, and radiation.

· Potential risk of an exposure to hazardous medications or waste materials of hazardous medications.

ABOUT BEAUMONT

Beaumont offers you a world of opportunity throughout Southeast Michigan.  With eight hospitals and 155 outpatient sites you’ll have a wide variety of practice settings to choose from.  Beaumont has more nationally ranked hospitals in Michigan than any other health system.

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