**Job Title:** RN Float Pool **Job Specialty:** MedSurg/Tele **Job Duration:** 13 weeks **Shift:** 12-hour night shift, 3x12 per week **Guaranteed Hours:** 36 hours per week **Experience:** One year of experience preferred **License:** State RN license or RN license from a participating state in the NLC **Certifications:** - American Heart Association Basic Life Support (BLS) - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) - NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) Certification **Must-Have:** - Proficiency in patient care - Competency in various therapeutic/diagnostic interventions, including IV, wound care, medication administration, catheterization, and specimen collections **Job Description:** - Assume responsibility and accountability for facilitating, communicating, and collaborating with the healthcare team and the patient/family. - Identify and meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the patient. - Promote optimal health, well-being, and safety of the patient through the nursing process in accordance with patient care standards, guidelines, and the State Nurse Practice Act. - Demonstrate personal accountability for relationship-based care, organizational mission, and core values. - Assess patient's physical, psychosocial, cultural, and spiritual needs through observation, interview, review of medical records, and clinical data. - Evaluate patient's response and intervene to ensure optimal patient outcomes. - Develop and implement the patient plan of care and observe outcomes in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team. - Promote, advocate, and collaborate to protect the health, safety, and rights of each patient. - Provide patient/family education and evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching. - Recognize the patient or designee as a full partner in compassionate and coordinated care respecting the patient's preferences and needs. - Deliver respectful and culturally competent care. - Delegate tasks to non-RN personnel in accordance with State Board of Nursing and hospital policy. - Effectively manage time, personnel, equipment, and supplies to provide high-quality, cost-effective patient care. - Serve as a professional role model for all staff, demonstrating ethical, legal, and professional nursing practice. - Manage resources and patient flow efficiently. - Use standards of care, hospital policies/procedures, and regulatory guidelines to guide practice. - Function effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. - Precept and mentor new staff or nursing students as needed. - Continuously seek out learning opportunities and pursue continuing education to maintain current skills and competence. - Evaluate personal integrity and nursing practice in relation to professional standards and guidelines. - Take action to achieve professional goals identified during evaluations. - May be required to float to any location within sixty miles of the original assignment or as identified by the organization. - Float assignments may include duties beyond original job requirements, in compliance with organizational policy.