Medical ICU Nurse - Wayne, MI, United States - Corewell Health

Description

Improve health, instill humanity, and inspire hope.

That's just the beginning of the difference you can make when you join our team of ICU Nurses at Corewell Health, Wayne.

UNIT SUMMARY:
ICU takes all high acuity patients from medical, surgical, and cardiac.

We provide specialized care to our patients providing CRRT and Hypothermia with a nursing ratio of 1:1-1:2 based of acuity.

ICU takes pride in the teamwork and dedication to our patients and families, providing holistic family centered care.
Corewell Health offers a comprehensive benefits package to meet your financial, health and life-work balance goals.
Generous paid time off, holidays and flexible scheduling
Exceptional health, dental, vision and prescription drug insurance plans
Tuition Reimbursement
Relocation assistance
Savings & retirement plans, disability insurance, identify theft protection and even home and auto insurance
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.


Education / Training:
Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with an associate degree or higher.

DNP/PhD - if not minimum BSN prepared, new graduate/nurse with less than one (1) year experience is required to sign an educational contract upon hire to complete BSN within specified timeframe and adhere to contract stipulations.

Graduates from non-accredited school of nursing programs must have at least one year of acute care experience or greater than 2 years of experience in a licensed health care role, such as an LPN or EMT role, etc.

, Work Experience:


Certification, Licensure, Registration:

Critical Care:
ACLS within 6 months of hire/transfer

The clinical nurse, under the ANA scope of practice utilizes the framework of the nursing process to provide professional nursing care by incorporating patient-family centered care principles.

The Clinical Nurse provides quality patient care under the direction of the Nurse Leader according to Corewell policies and procedures.

Applies the nursing process of assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and discharge needs of patient/family/significant other.

Applies the Core Concepts of Patient- and Family-Centered Care (PFCC) in practice and uses this knowledge to personalize care for each patient/family.

Recognizes the impact of nursing care and patient/family partnerships on patient outcomes.
Partners with and utilizes patient/family input and goals in planning of care.

Provides quality care that meets or exceeds the expectations of value (core measures, quality matrix, patient experience, fiscally responsible).

Provides assistance to individuals in a manner that takes into account their special needs, age-related and cultural-related needs.

Recognizes the roles of the interdisciplinary team, patient and family care partners and utilizes them appropriately as resources in planning patient care.

Demonstrates knowledge of and competently performs technical procedures and uses equipment properly.
Documents in the patient record in a timely, accurate and concise manner. documents education and learning appropriately in health record.
Stays up to date with current health system initiatives and incorporates evidence-based practice and research into practice. Participates in department-based activities, staff meetings and committees.
Actively participates in hand-offs of care, including the patient, family and partners in care.
Demonstrates knowledge, understanding and embraces cultural traditions and lore of community served.

This document represents the major duties, responsibilities, and authorities of this job, and is not intended to be a complete list of all tasks and functions.

Supports the Mission, Value and Vision of Corewell Health (BH). Demonstrates personal commitment through active involvement in the performance improvement process.
Promotes positive public relations with patients/residents, family members, guests, and others.
Supports and adheres to all Corewell Health's customer service, service excellence, and performance standards.

Supports and participates with all required compliance standards that may be department specific and/or identified by the organizations including in-service training, acceptable attendance, uniform and dress code.

Adheres to HIPAA requirements and maintains confidentiality of all data, including patient/resident, employee and operations information.

Supports and participates in a collaborative team-oriented environment - cooperates and works together with all co-workers, plans and completes job duties, uses appropriate communications in sensitive and emotional situations and follows up as appropriate regarding reported complaints, problems and concerns.

Maintains current licensure, registration and/or certification, as applicable, at all times.

Position requires incumbent to constantly perform simple motor skills such as standing, walking and simple manipulative skills such as writing.

Frequently perform tasks which require hand-eye coordination such as assisting patients to eat, collections of specimens for transport to lab and tasks which require arm-hand steadiness such as taking patients temps and pulses.

Visual Discrimination

Positions requires incumbent to constantly be able to hear normal sound with some background noise as in answering phone/intercom.

Frequently be able to distinguish sound as in equipment alarms.

Occasionally exposed to hazardous material other than blood, body tissues, or fluids, dust, toxins, cytotoxons, chemical hazardous materials, bodily injuries, loud and/or unpleasant noises, high humidity, electrical hazards, or poisonous substances.

Potential risk of an exposure to hazardous medications or waste materials of hazardous medications.
Corewell Hospital, Wayne

Serving the region since 1957, this 99-bed, full-service acute care center is the only one in the Wayne, Westland, Garden City, Canton, Inkster and Romulus area verified by the American College of Surgeons as a Level III trauma center and certified by The Joint Commission.

The hospital has a long-standing partnership with Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to handle a variety of health and communicable disease concerns .