The Registered Nurse performs nursing functions and supervises other RNs, LPNs, and other assistive personnel in the performance of nursing care according to the state nurse practice act. The Registered Nurse assesses patient needs, plans and implements patient care, and evaluates the effectiveness of care provided.
See License/Certification Requirements
Georgia Registered Nurse License or Multistate Nursing License
BLS through the American Health Association (CPR)
*Qualifications as designated in Nursing Clinical Ladder Policy.
*NOTE: ACLS within 6 months of hire into ED, ICU, Surgery, PACU, L&D, SSU if taking GI call, or Cath Lab.
*NOTE: NRP within 6 months of hire into Nursery and L&D.
*NOTE: PALS within one year of hire in PACU.
*NOTE: BLS required within 30 days of hire.
Tanner Hospital Villa Rica-V0001
every other weekend and some holidays required
Tanner Health is a non-profit regional healthcare provider serving west Georgia and east Alabama. Tanner facilities include the 201-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Carrollton, the 40-bed acute care Tanner Medical Center/Villa Rica, the 25-bed critical access Higgins General Hospital in Bremen, the 15-bed Tanner Medical Center/East Alabama in Wedowee and the 92-bed behavioral health facility Willowbrooke at Tanner.
Other Tanner services include Tanner Cancer Care, Tanner Heart Care, Tanner Urgent Care, Tanner Women’s Care, Tanner Occupational Health, Tanner Center for Sleep Disorders, Tanner Advanced Wound Center, Tanner Pain Management Center, Tanner Diagnostic Imaging, Tanner Home Health, Tanner Hospice Care and more.
Tanner also operates Tanner Medical Group, one of metro Atlanta’s largest multi-specialty physician groups, consisting of 30 physician practices with specialties in cardiology and interventional cardiology, family medicine, general surgery and breast surgical oncology, infectious diseases, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, plastic and reconstructive surgery, psychiatry, radiation oncology and vascular surgery.
Tanner employs more than 4,500 people and offers a medical staff of more than 300 physicians representing 34 unique medical specialties practicing throughout west Georgia and east Alabama.
