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  New Graduate Nurse Residency Program

  Carle BroMenn Medical Center and Carle Eureka Hospital provide a Nurse Residency program for new graduate Registered Nurses during their first several months of practice. New Graduate Nurse Residency assists the nurse in the transition from student to professional nursing practice. The program offers facilitated learning sessions, discussions, and reflective self-care sessions in a group setting. The content is structured to help new graduates apply best practices, evidence-based care guidelines, and to use proactive nursing strategies.

  All nurses receive a comprehensive orientation which includes classroom orientation followed by unit-based orientation with a unit preceptor. During residency, the new graduate nurse receives additional classroom, simulation, virtual reality, and skill sessions presented by a team of expert level RNs and Clinical Development Specialists. Topics cover core concepts that assist in the nurse’s professional career development and are designed to meet the needs of each group. In addition, the residency program also includes attending a unit shared governance meeting and an opportunity for observational experiences. New Graduate Nurse Residency is a comprehensive program which builds professional relationships and provides strong specialized support for the transition of new graduate nurses at Carle Health.

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  •Acute Care Track 

  -Surgical Ortho Unit

  -MOSU

  -Acute Rehab

  -PCU

  -CVCU

  -Clinical Resource Unit (CRU)

  •Behavorial Health/Chemical Dependency Track

  •Emergency Department Track

  •Intensive Care Track

  •Eureka- Med/Surg Track

  •Perioperative Track 

Responsibilities:

• • Performs all responsibilities and duties required by unit as specific to the scope of service. Implements procedures and theories related to the specific area of practice. Maintains up-to-date and accurate documentation of nursing care provided to assure the integration of information for use by the healthcare team.
  • Completes initial assessment upon patient admission and develops appropriate plan of care in accordance with unit standards and that is based on patient and family needs. Implements plan of care, nursing interventions, and patient care procedures. Modifies plan of care based upon continuous evaluation.
  • Takes responsibility for patient and employee safety by reporting and/or correcting safety hazards and incidents.
  • Communicates with others directly and in private when necessary to resolve issues. Offers constructive feedback to assist in the professional development of peers, and confers with colleagues to expand knowledge base. Identifies own learning needs and takes initiative to begin appropriate solution.
  • Fulfills all requirements of departmental competencies.
  • Takes responsibility for paitent and employee safety by reporting and/or correcting safety hazards and incidents
  • Floats to various inpatient units including Medical-Oncology, surgical -ortho, Cardiovascular Care unit, Progressive Care unit, Mental health unit and acute rehab
  • Provides direct nursing care, collaborates with other multidiscipline team members to provide patient care to various patient population.
  • Conducts and documents assessments, nursing diagnoses, plans, implements and evaluates patient care
  • Act as resource to staff from various units.
  • Coordinates care to multidiscipline team members to facilitate and provide the highest possible quality patient care.
  • Manage Care of Acute and Chronically ill cardiac and pulmonary patients
  • Collaboratively identify patient goals of care, design and maintain care plans with patient and family
  • Implement interventions as needed including medication administration and evaluation of effects
  • Prepare patients for procedures, pain management, IV venipuncture, blood administration, monitor labs
  • Discharge patients and provide instruction for safe transition from hospital
  • Document all care using EMR
  • Ensure team huddles are occurring and attend
  • Delegate with appropriate follow-up
  • Answer call lights
  • Ensure basic care such as turning, toileting, etc is done per standards of care
  • Conflict management
  • Professional communication with all team members
  • Provides post-operative care for te complex surgical population
  • Assesses and intervenes appropriately to ensure positive outcomes during the post-operative phase
  • Assesses, manages, and educates patients and families
  • Receives patient Bedside Shift Report from an RN at the beginning of each shift, ensuring the inclusion of the patient input, visual validation of a safe patient room environment at the time of shift change and updating of the patient communication board found in each patient room
  • Delegates patient care tasks/responsibilities to assigned HCT's and validates completion of delegated tasks throughout the shift
  • completes and documents basic RN patient care activities such assessments, interpretation of vital signs, ensure physician order completion, admission/discharge of patients, hourly rounding completion on each assigned patient, care plan documentation and patient education
  • RN will provide patient medications utilizing the patient 5 Rights: Right patient, Right Medication, Right Route, Right dose and Right Time
  • Maintains patient safety as the highest priority level: ensuring safety measure compliance such as fall precautions, pressure ulcer prevention, isolation precautions and patient ambulation safety
  • Maintains a positive at

Qualifications:

• EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
  Bachelor's Degree in within four (4) years of hire or Associate's Degree and Diploma (Not HS)
  CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE REQUIREMENTS
  Registered Professional Nurse (RN) License Illinois upon hire and Basic Life Support (BLS) within 30 days and
  EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
  Minimum of one year of inpatient nursing experience
  ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
  

  • Attend and satisfactorily complete all required continuing education

Carle Health Company Overview:

Find it here.

Discover the job, the career, the purpose you were meant for. The supportive and inclusive team where you can thrive. The place where growth meets balance – and opportunities meet flexibility. Find it all at Carle Health.

Based in Urbana, IL, Carle Health is a healthcare system with nearly 16,600 team members in its eight hospitals, physician groups and a variety of healthcare businesses. Carle BroMenn Medical Center, Carle Foundation Hospital, Carle Health Methodist Hospital, Carle Health Proctor Hospital, Carle Health Pekin Hospital, and Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center hold Magnet® designations, the nation’s highest honor for nursing care. The system includes Methodist College and Carle Illinois College of Medicine, the world’s first engineering-based medical school, and Health Alliance™. We offer opportunities in several communities throughout central Illinois with potential for growth and life-long careers at Carle Health.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. Carle Health participates in E-Verify and may provide the Social Security Administration and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. | For more information: [email protected].

Salary Range: $31.65/hr

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Shift work,

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