Registered Nurse (RN), Nights, Med Surg and Telemetry

Description

With over 150 years of caring for our community and each other in the Washington DC area, Howard University Hospital has a world-renowned reputation for high-quality, patient-centric care. Howard University Hospital is the nation's only teaching hospital located on the campus of a Historically Black University and has created a superior learning environment, with groundbreaking research and positive patient outcomes.

Howard University Hospital seeks to hire a Clinical Registered Nurse in the Med / Surg and Telemetry Unit who will embrace our rich and historic tradition of excellence. If you want to make a difference in someone's life every day, consider a position with a team of professionals doing just that : making a difference.

This full-time position consists of three 12-hour night shifts, rotating every other weekend. 7 : 30pm-8 : 00am

Pay Range : $35.80-$59.89 (Actual offer rates are based upon the applicant's relevant job experience and the requirements of the position)

The Med / Surg and Telemetry Clinical Nurse :

• Collaborates with patient / family and health care team to determine health goals and interventions and to revise plans of care as needed
• Maintains awareness of the unit's periodic statistics regarding core measures, nursing quality indicators, and customer satisfaction measures and actively participates in activities / behaviors that progressively improve the statistics
• Provides nursing care consistent with the nursing practice standards, policies, and procedures established by the unit, department, division, and institution, professional ethics and standards, and legal requirements
• Serves in the rotational role of charge nurse upon completion of the six month orientation period and with approval by the nurse manager
• Participates in unit performance improvement programs through ongoing design, assessment and measurement, and performance improvement activities
• Identifies patient care requirements by establishing personal rapport with potential and actual patients and other persons in a position to understand care requirements
• Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and spiritual support to patients, friends, and families
• Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; teaching patient, friends, and family to understand condition, medications, and self-care skills; answering questions
• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and standards of care set by the Nurse Practice Act of the District of Columbia, and other governing agency regulations
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations
• Maintains nursing supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies; using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results
• Demonstrates competency in clinical skills, bedside manner, infection control, physiological knowledge, administering medication, medical teamwork, multi-tasking, listening, verbal communication, health promotion and maintenance

Qualified candidates will possess :

At Howard University Hospital, our job is to care for you. We do this by offering :

Work-life balance

Recognition and rewards for professional expertise

Competitive, comprehensive benefit plans offered (including health, disability, vacation, sick leave, and 403B retirement plan)

HRSA Loan Forgiveness is available

COVID-19 Vaccination :

Howard University Hospital requires all external applicants to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 before commencing employment. If offered, External Applicants may be required to furnish proof of vaccination and may elect to be vaccinated at a designated Howard University Hospital location.

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Required Skills

Associates Degree in Nursing Required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred.

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.

Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in the District of Columbia.

American Heart Association Basic Life Support required, PALS preferred.

NRP certification required.

At least 12 months acute care / hospital experience as an RN in NICU, Level III experience highly preferred.