Staff Registered Nurse

Job Title: Staff Registered Nurse
Location: Milwaukee, WI 53226
Duration: 3 Months+ (Possible extension or FTE based on individual performance and business needs)

Shift: 3rd Shift (Nights: 19:00–07:30)
Schedule: 36 hours per week, float as needed, up to every other weekend

Note: This is a Plastics, surgery, medicine, breast, flaps, and ENT unit. Must be competent in vascular checks and post-surgical cases. Prefer experience with tracheostomies.
 
Job Summary:

• The Registered Nurse collects comprehensive data pertinent to the patient's health and/or the situation.
• Analyses the assessment data to determine the diagnoses or the issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the patient or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan.
• Evaluates progress toward the attainment of outcomes.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Utilizes current evidence-based nursing knowledge, including research findings, to guide practice.
• Incorporates evidence when initiating changes in nursing practice.
• Participates, as appropriate to educational level and position, in the formulation of evidence-based practice through research.
• Contributes to a quality nursing practice.
• Uses creativity and innovation in nursing practice to improve care delivery.
• Identifies aspects of practice important for quality monitoring.
• Uses benchmarks to measure/monitor the quality, safety, and effectiveness of nursing practice.
• Uses the PDSA model to improve the quality of nursing practice and outcomes.
• Participates on and/or leads interprofessional teams to evaluate clinical care or health services.
• Participates in and/or leads efforts to minimize costs and unnecessary duplication.
• Identifies problems that occur in day-to-day work routines to correct process inefficiencies.
• Consistently responds to patient call lights/needs in a timely manner.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan and provide nursing services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Assesses individual patient care needs and resources available to achieve desired outcomes.
• Identifies patient care needs, potential for harm, complexity of the task, and desired outcomes when considering resource allocation.
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate health care workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.
• Identifies the evidence when evaluating resources.
• Advocates for resources, including technology, that enhance nursing practice.
• Modifies practice when necessary to promote positive interaction between patients, care providers, and technology.
• Works in an aligned partnership with the Flow Coordinator, Shift Coordinator, and other hospital leaders to effectively manage all dynamics of patient flow.
• Other duties as assigned.
• The registered nurse practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Promotes a practice environment that reduces environmental health risks for workers and patients.
• Assesses the practice environment for factors such as sound, odour, noise, and light that threaten health.
• Advocates for the judicious and appropriate use of products in health care.
• Communicates environmental health risks and exposure reduction strategies to patients, families, colleagues, and communities.
• Utilizes scientific evidence to determine if a product or treatment is an environmental threat.
• Participates in strategies to promote healthy communities.
• Assesses her or his own communication skills in encounters with patients, families, and colleagues.

• Upon hire, any non-BSN nurse with less than one year of licensed registered nurse experience will be required to enroll in a BSN (or higher nursing degree) program.
• Acceptance into a program is expected within 15 months of hire and the degree must be completed within 5 years of enrollment (6 years for MSN, DNP, or PhD).

• Current state of Wisconsin Registered Nurse License or a Multi-state Nursing License from a participating NLC state.
• American Heart Association (AHA) BLS for the Healthcare Provider (or equivalent)
• AHA ACLS required within 90 days of hire’

• Attains knowledge and competence that reflects current nursing practice
• Professional knowledge of nursing theory and practice through education at an accredited School of Nursing.