Job Description

Per Diem

Registered Nurse- Adult Step Down Unit

Who We Are:

Elliot Health System is excited to share the opening of a new Adult Stepdown Unit (ASDU). It is a 12-bed unit with private rooms incorporating aspects from our Intensive Care Unit that improve nursing satisfaction such as: ceiling lifts to assist with safe patient movement and supply carts in every room to streamline care. The unit will have substantial telemetry monitoring and a medication room to promote safe patient care.

About the Job:

The ASDU will care for patient ‘s with an acutely ill, moderately complex, medical, surgical, cardiac, trauma, and psychiatric diagnosis, requiring close nursing observation assessment, intervention, or monitoring. The standard nurse to patient ratio for the ADSU is 1:3.

Nursing care is provided in accordance with the standards established by the American Nurses Association, and it is guided by a patient and family centered care delivery model of care. The American Association of Critical Care Nurses guide critical and progressive care nursing practices.

Admission to the Adult Stepdown Unit will be managed by either the Critical Care Medicine Service or the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Service.

What You’ll Do:

Innovation & Inspiration

• Embraces and promotes change to support optimal patient outcomes and an effective professional practice environment.

Collaboration & Continuity in Caring

• Involves patient/family in goal setting and planning and communicates that plan of care to patient and family for input; and to colleagues to ensure seamless care across shifts and settings.

Accountability

• Demonstrates accountability for continued professional growth and development. Demonstrates accountability for own role in smooth operations of unit.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize and manage rapidly changing situations.

Respect & Role Modeling

• Utilizes current evidence and relevant national/specialty standards to guide practice and/or performance and identifies areas for improvement.
• Demonstrates competent clinical practice utilizing clinical decision making and critical thinking skills.

Who You Are:

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. Bachelor of Science in Nursing preferred
• Minimum of 2 years nursing experience. Telemetry with management of dysrhythmia preferred.
• Current New Hampshire, compact, or multistate licensure as Registered Nurse required.
• Ability to obtain BLS qualification during orientation period and maintain during employment. ACLS preferred.
• Professional Certification: Nurses are expected to pursue professional certification upon eligibility or within three years of entering the specialty practice.
• Software/ Hardware: Ability to advance basic computer skills as the health system adds new systems or performs upgrades to existing systems

Why You’ll Love Us:

• Medical, Dental, Vision Benefits starting the 1st of the month following you start date
• Accrued Earned Time
• 403b with matching (fully vested) and discretionary annual core contributions
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $4,000/year for full time coded employees over 30 hours/week
• Nursing Student Loan Paydown Program up to $20,000
• Sign on bonus up to $15,000 (Paid in 3,6, and 12 months)

Work Schedule: Per Diem