RN, High Acuity Progressive Care Units, Downtown Campuses, Day and Night Shift Available

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Primary Location: Jewish Hospital Address: 200 Abraham Flexner Way Louisville, KY 40202 Shift: Job Description Summary: Jewish Hospital is a 462-bed an internationally renowned, high-tech tertiary referral center focused on developing leading-edge advancements in hand and microsurgery, heart and lung care, orthopedics and sports medicine, brain and spine care, organ transplantation and outpatient care. Many of the hospital's clinical programs have achieved national rankings for excellence. Noted for numerous medical firsts in Kentucky, the nation and the world, Jewish Hospital is the site of the nation's first four hand transplants, first kidney transplant in 1964, the first heart transplant in 1984 and the first hand transplant in 1999. UofL Hospital is an academic teaching and research hospital located in the heart of downtown Louisville. UofL Hospital offers a second-to-none cancer center, world-renowned trauma team and a uniquely streamlined nationally accredited stroke center - the latest innovations in a history of world-class care. UofL Hospital and Brown Cancer Center achieved Magnet recognition in November 2022. UofL Health is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) fully integrated regional academic health system with nine hospitals, four medical centers, Brown Cancer Center, Eye Institute, more than 250 physician practice locations, and more than 1,200 providers in Louisville and the surrounding counties, including southern Indiana. UofL Health is focused on one mission: to transform the health of communities we serve through compassionate, innovative, patient-centered care. Job Description: UofL Health is looking for experienced and new graduate RNs for our high acuity PCU units at our two downtown campuses - Jewish Hospital and UofL Hospital. Part- and full-time openings. Day and night shift available. Apply today for an opportunity to work on one of these high acuity PCUs at two of the regions' most renowned hospitals: Cardiac/Pulmonary, Pulmonary/Thoracic, Cardiac Surgical, Cardiothoracic Post Surgical, Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant, Neuroscience, Complex Orthopedic and Hand, Neuro Trauma, Ortho Trauma, Complex Medical/Stroke, Medical Surgical, and Post Surgical. The Registered Nurse will deliver nursing care to patients of varying age groups by utilizing the nursing process and nursing practice standards. The Registered Nurse uses: Nursing Practice Competencies to intervene to achieve safe, optimal patient and family centered care health outcomes; Leadership Competencies to coordinate patient care and communicate with the care team; Professional Profile Competencies to develop professionally as a life-long learner, and Practice Outcomes Competencies to evaluate care based on evidence, the UofL Health quality model, and patient safety goals. The Registered Nurse demonstrates competency caring for complex patients and participates on the care team to improve the quality of care in the clinical area . Essential Functions: Under the supervision of a clinical nurse manager, this position will provide nursing care to patients, and: Conducts systematic, continuous and comprehensive assessments of patient health status from admission or encounter to discharge across the care continuum to ensure patient safety, collaborating with the healthcare team, patient and family; care addresses all aspects of the individual and family, including age, gender, spiritual, cultural, physical, psychosocial and patient preferences and proactively uses safety surveillance to prevent adverse outcomes Independently administers medications per licensure authority, assesses and reassesses the effects of these medications, and documents administration in a timely manner per policies, procedures and regulatory requirements; consistently adheres to patient safety guidelines regarding all aspects of medication administration In collaboration with patient and family, plans care using current scientific knowledge, theory, and care standards within the nursing interventions and outcomes framework and national patient safety goals; constructs individualized, age-specific plans for optimal patient and family outcomes, as appropriate to the practice setting; incorporates data from the multi-disciplinary care team into the plan of care to assure continuity and appropriate patient teaching In collaboration with patient and family, identifies and prioritizes patient problems based on subjective and objective assessment data, patient safety considerations, patient and family goals and preferences, and nursing interventions and the medical plan of care Implements nursing care interventions to meet patient and family center health care needs. Demonstrates competent skills, appropriate clinical judgments and chain of command to promote patient safety and reach planned care goals and outcomes Competently and consistently assesses, conducts and evaluates the outcomes of patient and family teaching, from admission, or episode of care, to di

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