Registered Nurse Resource (RN), Critical Care - All Shifts

Job Description

Be a part of a world-class academic healthcare system at UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial Hospital as a Resource Registered Nurse in the Critical Care unit. Here, you will manage directed patient-centered care to high-risk patients. This position is a 100% onsite opportunity. You will need to be based in the greater Chicagoland area.

This position provides emergency response, high acuity nursing consultation, proactive surveillance, and escalation of care to patients throughout the organization on the assigned shift. Due to the variety of clinical knowledge, clinical skills, and advanced critical thinking skills, individuals in this role are required to demonstrate expert level of practice according to the Benner’s Novice to Expert Model. The Resource Nurse assures excellence in patient care through prompt and thoughtful assistance to patients and families utilizing the principles of patient and family-centered care by working collaboratively with other patient care and multidisciplinary team members. Nurses in this role will exercise autonomy and practice at the highest level of scope. They will provide patient-centered care by demonstrating reliability, flexibility, adaptability, and accountability to all units of UCM Ingalls.

Essential Job Functions

• Clinical Practice: 'no traditional daily assignment': The Resource Nurse will assist and actively collaborate with the nursing staff to identify, manage, and participate in the patient’s plan of care all the while ensuring optimal nursing care. The Resource Nurse will respond to all RRT, cardiac arrests, and stroke team activation calls; assist with difficult venous access; assist with admissions, discharges, and throughput, participate in pressure ulcer prevention days and wound consults, and assist nurses with other patient care duties. (This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. Rather serve as examples of nursing duties this role will fulfill)
• Education: The Resource nurse is an expert clinical practitioner and therefore will be required to provide formal and informal education to staff nurses on a variety of patient care topics. This nurse will work with the Nurse Educators to support the ongoing education efforts of all nurses. Examples of education include but are not limited to participation in mock codes, code reviews, skincare, central line care, urinary catheter care, etc
• Surveillance: The Resource Nurse will surveil high-risk patients with various needs on the floor through frequent rounding and interactions with staff nurses. This nurse will surveil post-RRT patients; provide early intervention with sepsis management, monitor high fall risk patients for appropriate interventions, and monitor patients at high risk for skin breakdown or those with active wounds. The Resource Nurse will collaborate with the nurse assigned to high-risk patients on the patient’s plan of care (This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties. Rather serve as examples of nursing duties this role will fulfill)
• Professional Development: Contributes to creating a work climate that encourages positive staff morale, motivation, and commitment for all who participate in the care of patients. Serves as a clinical expert, role model, and resource to colleagues and others by using evidence-based clinical practice principles accepting responsibility for professional and personal actions, and for maintaining current clinical specialty knowledge base. Participates in the Continuous Quality Improvement process, assists in determining issues to be examined participates in data collection, input, analysis, and research, and assists in implementing changes
• Stewardship: Incorporates cost-effective measures into practice to assure proper use of time, supplies, and personnel, as well as participating in activities that monitor and enhance patient throughput across the organization

Required Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing with a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) OR Associate's (ADN)
• Minimum of two years acute care nursing experience required; Demonstrated recent competency in critical care area such as intensive care or emergency department required
• Current RN Illinois license
• Active BLS certification from the American Heart Association (AHA)
• ACLS
• CCRN/PCCN/CEN preferred; required to be maintained within 12 months of hire

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Part-Time/Full-Time
• Shift: Days/Nights
• Work Location: Onsite
• Unit/Department: Critical Care 
• CBA Code: NNU

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.

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UChicago Medicine is an equal opportunity employer.  We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.

Must comply with UChicago Medicine’s COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employment physical, drug screening, and background check are also required for all employees prior to hire.

Compensation & Benefits Overview

UChicago Medicine is committed to transparency in compensation and benefits.  The pay range provided reflects the anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position.

The pay range is based on a full-time equivalent (1.0 FTE) and is reflective of current market data, reviewed on an annual basis. Compensation offered at the time of hire will vary based on candidate qualifications and experience and organizational considerations, such as internal equity. Pay ranges for employees subject to Collective Bargaining Agreements are negotiated by the medical center and their respective union.

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