Float Pool RN | Part Time

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Shift:
7AM-7PM or 7PM-7AM

Location:
Singing River Gulfport Hospital, Singing River Ocean Springs Hospital, Singing River Pascagoula Hospital

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Position Overview:
The Float Pool Registered Nurse (RN) is a skilled, flexible professional responsible for delivering high-quality patient care across multiple hospital units and locations in alignment with their scope of practice. The Float Pool Registered Nurse (RN) must be adaptable and able to provide standardized nursing care across a minimum of two units or two locations and will be scheduled based on patient census and acuity.

The Float Pool Registered Nurse (RN) provides patient care utilizing the Nursing Process within the MS Nurse Practice Act, ANA Nursing Scope and Standards of Practice, ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses, accreditation standards, the CDC Guidelines for Infection Control, and SRHS Departments of Nursing Plan for Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services. As such, this performance evaluation is based on these standards. Expectation is for all performed duties to be in accordance with Singing River Health System procedures and policies, accreditation organization, and governing guidance and publications for health care employees.

DISCLAIMER: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this intends to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks performed as assigned.

Education:
Graduate from NLN School of nursing.

License:
Currently licensed to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of Mississippi.

Certifications:
All RNs are required to complete and maintain BCLS certification upon hire and/or transfer. RNs working in the below specialty areas are required to complete and maintain certifications as listed:

Cath Lab - ACLS
Cardiac Rehab - ACLS
Congestive Heart Failure - ACLS
Cardiovascular Surgery - ACLS
Emergency Department - ACLS, PALS, TNCC
Intensive Care Units - ACLS
Labor & Delivery - ACLS, NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation)
Medical Nursing - OB/GYN - PALS
Nursery - NRP (Neonatal Resuscitation)
Pediatrics - PALS
PACU/Recovery - ACLS, PALS

RNs have 12 months, from the date they begin working in the specialty area, to acquire the appropriate certification and 18 months to acquire TNCC certification for the Emergency Department.

Must have de-escalation training completed by the end of position orientation (90 days); must have appropriate level of de-escalation training.

Experience:
A minimum of two (2) years of inpatient clinical experience required. Experience must be within the past five (5) years, or evidence of successful refresher program.

Reports to:
Centralized Scheduling and Float Pool Director

Supervises:
LPNs, Patient Care Assistants, Unit Technicians

Physical Demands:
Work is moderately active: involves sitting with frequent requirements to move about the office, move about the facility, and to travel to another facility within the SRHS service area. Work involves exerting a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.

Work involves using many physical motions in performing daily work activities; subject to exposure of body fluids, sputum and tissues, which may carry the hazard of infectious disease. Work involves using repetitive motions: substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and or fingers while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard.

Work involves being able to perceive the nature of sound at normal speaking levels with or without correction; the ability to make fine discriminations in sound. Work requires close visual and acuity and the ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus, i.e. shift gaze from viewing a computer monitor to forms/printed material that are closer to compare data at close vision.

Must be able to be active for extended periods of time without experiencing undue fatigue. Must be able to work schedules assigned with the understanding that changes may be instituted accordin