Experienced Registered Nurse, Transplant Acute Inpatient, Full Time, Nights

Transplant Inpatient Nurse

Facility Name: Jackson Memorial Hospital - WW15 - Transplant Inpatient

Facility Address: 1611 NW 12 Ave., Miami, FL 33136

Shift Details: Full Time, Nights 7:00 pm - 7:00am

Take the next step in your nursing bedside career. Transplant is your next path!

Join the team and gain the knowledge, confidence, and hands-on experience to grow into this exciting specialty.

Why Jackson Memorial Hospital: Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and it has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Throughout its rich and storied history, Jackson Memorial - located in the heart of the City of Miami - has been ground zero for some of the world's greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida. We've grown into one of the nation's largest public hospitals, and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world's most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Implements and coordinates patient care in collaboration with physicians, providers, and healthcare staff.
• Utilizes the nursing process (assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation) to apply nursing knowledge.
• Documents all pertinent information related to nursing care, care plans, and patient observations.
• Accounts for narcotics and emergency equipment during each tour of duty.
• Maintains working knowledge of facility infection-control procedures.
• Recognizes, questions, and reports significant patient findings or inconsistencies in medical/nursing orders or treatment plans; collaborates to seek corrective action.
• Selects, individualizes, updates, and adheres to clinical procedures, protocols, standards, clinical pathways, plans of care, narcotics policies, and discharge/teaching plans.
• Completes and submits patient and unit charges.
• Recognizes and prioritizes overt and covert unit needs or problems and implements corrective actions independently.
• Assumes charge nurse responsibilities when assigned; supervises designated personnel and takes necessary action.
• Applies logic and reasoning to evaluate strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, and approaches to problems.
• Provides functional direction and assistance to LPNs, CNAs, or MAs, and conducts new staff orientation as assigned.
• Makes timely rounds to ensure continuity of care.
• Maintains HIPAA compliance at all times.
• Follows and performs all unit-specific policies and procedures as outlined in the competency checklist.
• Utilizes job-specific and unit-specific equipment as required.
• Demonstrates service excellence and CARE values (Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Expertise).
• Performs all other related job duties as assigned.

Generally requires 1 to 3 years of related experience.

• At least 2 to 4 years' experience as an acute care or step-down registered nurse, strongly preferred.
• Transplant inpatient nursing experience, a plus.

• Associate's degree in Nursing is required. BSN degree is preferred.
• Valid Florida RN license is required.
• American Heart Association and any additional applicable life support certification for Healthcare Providers may be required at the unit level upon hire with at least 6 months validity and maintenance at JHS for the duration of employment.
• Must meet and maintain valid and current all unit specific and organizational skills/competencies, certifications/licensures, as required by regulatory and/or nursing standard of practice for the specialty.

AHA Basic Life Support (BLS) with 6 months validity

Jackson Health System is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.