Registered Nurse

Position Title: RNDepartment: ICU-CCUPurpose: Provides and directs safe, effective, and culturally-competent care for high risk pediatric through aging adult patients with actual or potential life-threatening medical-surgical conditions. Key accountabilities include complex assessments, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care using critical thinking and evidenced-based practice; providing high-intensity therapies and interventions while providing continuous nursing surveillance; adherence to the Professional Practice Standards as defined by ANA; and active participation in quality monitoring and performance improvement activities.Report To: ManagerSupervisory Responsibility: Direction: The job requires some accountability for scheduling, assigning or coordinating work. Employees check the quality of work and provide guidance, instruction, training and direction to others. Although the job does not require formal or official supervisory responsibility, the incumbent serves as group leader or acts in an informal "assistant supervisory" or "lead" role. In addition, the employee may be expected to provide information or suggestions on human resources matters.Materials Responsibility: Limited: Work requires limited responsibility for material resources. Examples of resources could include supplies, equipment, inventories, small budgets, and other similar material assets. The employee has a limited amount of control over these resources. The cost of errors is also limited in terms of damage, waste or financial loss. Problems associated with material resources are not complex. The volume of resources may vary, but the level of difficulty in dealing with these resources is uncomplicated.Key Relationship: Co-workers/Health System Employees, Outside Agencies/Other Health Care Providers, General Public/Visitors/Volunteers, Physicians/Medical Office Staff, Students/Interns/Residents/Outside Instructors, Patients, Families, and Significant OthersPOSITION SPECIFICATIONEducation: Associate's DegreeField Of Study: NursingSpecial Training: ACLS; Basic Life Support.Training Preferred: Certified in critical care; Baccalaureate in NursingLicensure/Registration: Registered Nurse in Iowa; Registered Nurse in Illinois within 1 year.Experience: Less than 1 year experience required.Interpersonal Skills: Interaction is with a variety of people inside or outside the organization. Communications are often difficult or stressful in nature. Contact with others involves complex, detailed and often sensitive topics. The job requires a high degree of interpersonal skills to deal with a range of complicated problem situations. Interactions involve gaining the agreement of others.Working Conditions: There is routine exposure to highly adverse environmental conditions including physical hazards, health and safety risks, and otherwise undesirable characteristics in the environment. Personal risks require safety equipment or precautions to be followed closely. The time the employee may be exposed to these conditions is limited to 70% or less of the work day.Possible Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens: YesMiscellaneous: