Beacon Health System is hiring a full-time day shift Registered Nurse for our Intermediate Care Center at Elkhart General Hospital in Elkhart, IN.
Type: Full-Time FTE: 0.9 36 hours/week Shift: Days Shift Details: 7a-7:30p
Be a Beacon. Make a Difference.
At Beacon Health System, youre not just part of a team; youre part of something bigger. Every patient interaction is a chance to lead with compassion, build trust, and create lasting impact. Here, your expertise supports healing, and your heart connects us to the communities we serve.
Medical Dental & Vision Insurance through Cigna Life Insurance 403b Matching Retirement Fund Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO) Shift Differentials Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Tuition and Certification Reimbursement Clinical Ladder Program Local and National Discounts
Beacon Academy Educational Courses Gym Membership Discount
About Elkhart Hospital Elkhart General Hospital is a not-for-profit hospital located in Elkhart, Indiana. Our full-service 357-licensed-bed hospital has served the community for more than 100 years with a variety of services, including:
As part of Beacon Health System, patients have access to providers not only at this location but can access resources and services from across the entire health system.
What Youll Do As an Intermediate Care Center Registered Nurse, youll report to the Manager of the Intermediate Care Center and provide professional nursing services. You will assess the needs of patients and initiate, implement, and evaluate individualized plans of care. This role will collaborate with other professional, clinical, and ancillary staff in providing quality care to patients.
Intermediate Care Center RN Job Responsibilities
• Perform the priority, high-risk, high-frequency technical procedures safely, effectively, efficiently, and legally. • Establish and/or revise priorities for job, patient care activities based on the acuity of the need, resource availability, customer/patient preference, consideration of other department or staff priorities, timelines, and plans. • Respond to data indicating potential or actual risk to an individuals physical or emotional health by initiating action to correct, reduce, or prevent the risk. • Advocate for the patient or family when necessary to achieve appropriate outcomes. • Maintain accountability for own and delegated actions and decisions, based on scientific principles, logic, successful experiences, intuition, standards of practice, protocols, and organizational values. • Seek supervision, consultation, or assistance when unable to perform effectively or safely independently. • Use internal and/or external resources to resolve and/or prevent problems that cannot be managed independently. • Develop or revise a plan of care for assigned patients based on initial and ongoing data, including measurable goals, outcomes, reflects the values, preferences, and limitations of patients and/or family members, identifies interventions to achieve outcomes, and addresses pertinent physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and learning problems, needs. • Initiate or maintain interventions to assure continuity of safe and effective care for patients across the entire continuum of care. • Modify continuing or discontinuing interventions, goals, or timeframes according to evaluation of effectiveness, efficiency, and/or patient satisfaction. • Document consistently and within established guidelines assessments, interventions, actions, data collection, results, and outcomes of interventions. • Use interpersonal communication strategies with all members of the team to achieve desirable and acceptable outcomes or responses and perception of satisfaction by those involved. • Delegate to other staff members based upon acuity, complexity of need, role definition, and ability to perform and the collective needs of patients, families, and the unit. • Maintain awareness of advances in clinical specialty. • Contribute to the departments ability to achieve and maintain clinical excellence, customer-focused service excellence, fiscal responsibility, innovative and talented people, and the best place to work. • Contribute to the development of co-workers through positive role modeling, resource assistance, and direct feedback.
What You Bring
You bring a high level of knowledge and competency in performing nursing care procedures, assessments, treatment, and techniques. As a Registered Nurse, your advanced analytical skills are necessary to solve complex problems and make decisions related to patient care. You demonstrate the interpersonal skills necessary to establish and maintain effective working relationships with staff, patients, visitors, physicians, and others. You demonstrate the ability to communicate both verbally and in writing in a clear and concise manner. The RN has an understanding of the need to be responsive and reasonably adaptable for scheduling purposes when necessary due to extenuating circumstances in support of co-workers and department functions.
Required Qualifications
The Beacon Way
At Beacon Health System, our approach to care goes beyond clinical excellence, because its built on meaningful connections. Guided by our core values of trust, respect, integrity, and compassion, we strive to create an environment where patients feel heard, employees feel valued, and innovation thrives. We call this commitment The Beacon Way, a six-point operating system that empowers every team member to lead with purpose, communicate clearly, cultivate talent, embrace performance improvement, leverage innovation, and build greatness through accountability. Whether at the bedside or behind the scenes, everyone at Beacon plays a role in moving health forward.