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Clinical Decision Unit Nurse

Memorial Hospital - Chattanooga

#Registered Nurse #Patient Advocacy #Interdisciplinary Team #BLS #ACLS #Patient Care #Healthcare #Acute Care #Patient Outcomes

Quick overview

As a Registered Nurse, the role involves delivering compassionate, high-quality care by performing critical assessments, skilled procedures, and implementing individualized patient care plans daily. Responsibilities include diagnostic monitoring, administering therapeutic interventions, managing rapidly changing situations, and contributing to a healing environment.

Requirements summary

Required qualifications include an Associate of Nursing degree, active Registered Nurse licensure in Tennessee, and current Basic Life Support certification upon hire. Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification is required within 60 days, with a Bachelor of Nursing degree being preferred.

associate degreebachelor degreeCoordinationPatient AdvocacyPatient MonitoringCritical ThinkingPrioritizingSituation ManagementPatient TeachingAssessment SkillsTherapeutic InterventionsPatient Coaching

Job description

Where You’ll Work CommonSpirit, is an award-winning, not-for-profit, faith-based health care organization dedicated to the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.
Founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, we offer a comprehensive continuum of care, from preventative and primary care to acute hospital services specializing in cancer, cardiac, neuroscience, stroke, and orthopedic services.
Our commitment to excellence has earned us top prestigious recognition repeatedly from U.S.
News and World Report, PINC AI™, CMS, Healthgrades®, Leapfrog, and most recently as one of the Best Places to Work in Tennessee.
We are proud to serve Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia with the expertise of 4,700 team members and nearly 500 affiliated physicians.
Job Summary and Responsibilities As a Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans.
You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others.
Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.
Diagnostic and patient monitoring (detection and recognition of acute changes and escalation or concerns/critical results).
Administration and monitoring therapeutic interventions and regimens (starting/maintaining intravenous therapies, administering medication per patients’ rights, preventing falls and skin breakdown and following policies in relation to safety measures).
Effective management of rapidly changing situations (identifying, assessing and anticipating needs).
Organization and work rule competencies (prioritizing, coordination and meeting multiple patient needs in a timely manner).
Helping Role (consistently contribute to a healing environment, providing patient comfort and support for human dignity, serving as a patient advocate and building and maintaining a therapeutic environment.
Teaching-Coaching Function (assess and evaluates the patient’s readiness and ability to learn, effectively explains a patient’s condition and their interpretation of his or her illness.

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