Registered Nurse (RN) Intensive Care Unit
Job Location:
Norfolk, MA - USA
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Job Summary
City/State
Norfolk VAWork Shift
Multiple shifts availableOverview:
This position is eligible for a $20000 Sign on Bonus!Please ask the recruiter for details.
Hours/Shift: Full Time (36 hours per week)/Nights
Overview:
The Registered Nursing (RN) is responsible to perform a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process. The standards of practice (assessment diagnosis outcomes identification planning implementation coordination of care- teaching and health promotion and evaluation) along with the standards of professional performance (ethics culturally congruent practice communication collaboration leadership education evidence- based practice /nursing research quality evaluation resource utilization and environmental health) encompass the actions and foundation of professional nursing. The RN possesses clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.
Department/Position Overview:
Sentara Leigh Hospital Intensive Care Unit AACN Gold Beacon Award recipient is comprised of 20 licensed critical care beds and has an average daily census of 18 patients. Staffing ratios vary and can be 1:1 to 1:3 with 1:2 being the usual assignment.
The ICU RNs are required to have a wide array of knowledge skill and ability to competently and safely provide critical care to our patients. Frequent ongoing education new skill acquisition and skill validation are provided and supported by an experienced ICU CNS for new and experienced ICU nurses.
This unit welcomes experienced nurses moving into this specialty. The 11-week Transition to Practice program focuses on the orientation transition experience with intentional knowledge support and skill acquisition for practice in IMC areas.
ICU staff are supported by an interdisciplinary care team which in part includes unit based respiratory physical speech and occupational therapists. Interpreter nutrition palliative chaplaincy and ethical services are readily available as well. Our ICU has onsite and eICU pulmonary critical care intensivists and their team of physician extenders 24/7. Physician lead nurse driven interdisciplinary rounds are held daily for continuity of care and to address nursings concerns or questions. These rounds are made educational and even fun at times by our very engaged intensivist MDs.
Our ICU team welcomes you to come check us out!
Education
Degree or Diploma in Registered Nursing (required)
Bachelor of Science Nursing- BSN or MSN (Preferred)
Certification/Licensure
Registered nursing License (Required)
BLS required within 90 days of hire
Experience
Minimum of 1 year emergency intermediate care intensive care of med/surg nursing
Be a part of an excellent healthcare organization that cares about our People Quality Patient Safety Service and Integrity. Join a team that has a mission to improve health every day and a vision to be the healthcare choice of the communities that we serve!
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Benefits: Caring For Your Family and Your Career
Medical Dental Vision plans
Adoption Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10000
Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
Emergency Backup Care
Long-Term Short-Term Disability and Critical Illness plans
Life Insurance
401k/403B with Employer Match
Tuition Assistance $5250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
Student Debt Pay Down $10000
Pet Insurance
Legal Resources Plan
Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus ifestablished system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Sentara Leigh Hospital located in Norfolk VA is a 274-bed acute care facility that opened in 1903 and relocated to its present site in 1977. Our hospital completed a renovation in 2016 including two new patient towers a beautiful atrium and a multi-story parking garage. Sentara Leigh Hospital includes a dedicated Orthopedic Hospital providing patients access to a full continuum of orthopedic care from the preoperative phase and surgery to rehabilitation and home care services. Along with being a recognized accredited Primary Stroke Center and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence we also specialize in orthopedic and spine care heart vascular maternity care and general surgery. We are also home to the regions only 24-hour hyperbaric oxygen program that helps speed up the healing of carbon monoxide poisoning wounds that wont heal infections in which tissues are starved for oxygen airborne chemical exposures and scuba diving accidents.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30000-member workforce. Diversity inclusion and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission to improve health every day this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Indiana Kansas Louisiana Maine Maryland Minnesota Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Sentara Health, is an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system in Virginia and North Carolina. Sentara improves health everyday.
