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**Job Description:**
Full Time, Night Shift position in the TCU at Logan Regional Hospital. Rotating weekends and holidays!
The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver who assumes responsibility and accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care of patients. The staff RN utilizes the nursing process by use of technology, therapeutic intervention, evidence-based practice and coordination of care with other health team members.
**Position Details:**
Benefits Eligible: **YES**
**Full Time, Night Shift**
Rotating Weekends and Holidays
**Unit Description:**
Transitional Care Unit (TCU)
The TCU is the post-acute care department.
We manage a vast patient population that requires post-acute rehabilitation and skilled nursing services including: Total Knee Replacements, Total Hip Replacements, Spinal Surgeries, and medical diagnoses that require extended IV medication administration, as well as General Inpatient Hospice (GIP).
Patients typically are on the TCU for length of stay ranging from a few days to a couple months depending on patient needs.
This gives caregivers an opportunity to use nursing skills while building strong and lasting relationships with patients and their families.
Minimum Qualifications:
**New Grad RN - Unlicensed**
-Entry Pay: $30.87-
Successful completion of a recognized and accredited Nursing/RN education program (education will be verified).
**Registered Nurse - Licensed**
-Entry Pay: $34.19-
Current RN License in state of practice.
**Licensed and Unlicensed RN**
Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification for healthcare providers.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
The New Grad RN position is for those who have graduated nursing school and not yet taken their NCLEX or RN's with less than one year of RN experience. Those hired as a New Grad RN are required for have transcripts showing graduation from nursing school and will work under a licensed RN until they pass boards and their RN license can be verified. In conjunction with working on this unit, New Grad RNs attend Intermountain's one-year nurse residency program. The nurse residency program supports New Grad RNs in their transition from classroom to caregiver through 72 paid clinical hours, webinars, simulations, case studies, and quarterly in person meetings. To learn more about the nurse residency program click here () .
**Physical Requirements:**
Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
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Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
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Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc).
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May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
**Anticipated job posting close date:**
09/13/2024
**Location:**
Intermountain Health Logan Regional Hospital
**Work City:**
Logan
**Work State:**
Utah
**Scheduled Weekly Hours:**
36
The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience.
$34.19 - $50.73
We care about your well-being - mind, body, and spirit - which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged.
Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers () , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers () ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion () .
Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
Compensation Information:
$34.19 / Hourly - $34.19 / Hourly
Starting At: 34.19 Hourly
Up To: 50.73 Hourly
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