Job Description
**Job Title:** RN Clinical Nurse – Acute Care – Nights
**Job Specialty:** RN Registered / Licensed – Inpatient
**Job Duration:** 8-week contract
**Shift:** Night, 7p-7a
**Guaranteed Hours:** Not specified
**Experience:** Less than 1 year; completion of an accredited/approved school of nursing required
**License:** Registered Nurse – Single State or Multi-state Compact
**Certifications:** Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
**Must-Have:**
– Ability to read, write, and speak the English language.
– Basic computer skills and the ability to optimize the use of technology to support clinical care.
– Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, along with excellent customer service skills.
– Ability to function in a fast-paced environment and respond to emergencies with decisiveness, composure, and respect.
– Excellent time management, analytical, and critical thinking skills.
**Job Description:**
– **Exemplary Practice and Outcomes:**
– Perform the nursing process, ensuring individualized care and optimal patient outcomes.
– Provide relationship-based, culturally competent, patient-centered care.
– Partner with patients and significant others, maintaining open communication and focusing on patient goals.
– Adhere to current clinical practice standards.
– **Teamwork and Collaboration:**
– Coordinate the delivery and documentation of safe, quality patient care.
– Foster a diverse and inclusive interdisciplinary communication environment.
– Support recruitment, retention, and shared governance processes.
– **Professional Development and Initiative:**
– Complete mandatory education and competency assessments.
– Serve as a preceptor or mentor, modeling professional nursing practice.
– **Evidence-Based Practice and Research:**
– Promote evidence-based practice, nursing research, and performance improvement.
– Uphold healthcare policies and ensure legal compliance.
– **Resources and Support:**
– Proactively plan patient care across the continuum.
– Contribute to protocol development for best practice outcomes.
– Support efficient resource utilization.
– **Additional Duties:**
– Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all healthcare policies, standards, and codes of conduct.