SHIFT RESOURCE NURSE

Company: Bon Secours Health System
Facility: ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER at MIDLOTHIAN
Department: WATKINS EMERGENCY DEPT

I.
Bon Secours St. Francis Watkins Centre is scheduled to open November 2011. This free standing Emergency Department and Diagnostic Center is expecting 18,000 to 20,000 patient visits the first year. Watkins Centre is located at the interchange of Route 288 and Midlothian Turnpike in western Chesterfield County.

Po Position Summary:
The Shift Resource Nurse is a Registered Professional Nurse with responsibility and accountability for the coordination of clinical activities and patient care on weekends, evening and night shifts. Develops and sustains an environment that promotes excellence in clinical practice and customer satisfaction, while striving for optimal efficiency, productivity and utilization of all resources.

The Shift Resource Nurse utilizes the nursing process, leadership skills and current evidence based clinical knowledge to assess the health needs of patients, collaborate with health team members to coordinate patient care, anticipate outcomes of nursing interventions, and set criteria for the quality of patient care. Provides patient and staff education, clinical supervision, and participates in unit based activities (quality assessment, shared governance, scheduling, quality review, staff development in-services, etc.). Accepts responsibility and accountability for ethical/legal functioning. Provides supervision for staff members as charge nurse, and assumes increasing leadership responsibility for professional practice on the unit.

II. Job requirements:

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1. Must be a graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
2. BSN and national nursing certification preferred.
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