Registered Nurse (RN) - ED - Emergency Department
HCA Capital Division
Blacksburg, VA
3x12 hrs

Description

Introduction

Do you have the career opportunities as an RN Emergency Services you want in your current role? We invest in what matters most to nurses like you – at home, at work, and at every stage in your career. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join LewisGale Hospital Montgomery which is a part of the nation’s leading provider of healthcare services, HCA Healthcare.

Benefits

LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive medical coverage that covers many common services at no cost or for a low copay. Plans include prescription drug and behavioral health coverage as well as free telemedicine services and free AirMed medical transportation.
• Additional options for dental and vision benefits, life and disability coverage, flexible spending accounts, supplemental health protection plans (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity), auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long-term care coverage, moving assistance, pet insurance and more.
• Free counseling services and resources for emotional, physical and financial wellbeing
  
• 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service)
  
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with 10% off HCA Healthcare stock
  
• Family support through fertility and family building benefits with Progyny and adoption assistance.
  
• Referral services for child, elder and pet care, home and auto repair, event planning and more
  
• Consumer discounts through Abenity and Consumer Discounts
  
• Retirement readiness, rollover assistance services and preferred banking partnerships
  
• Education assistance (tuition, student loan, certification support, dependent scholarships)
  
• Colleague recognition program
  
• Time Away From Work Program (paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence)
  
• Employee Health Assistance Fund that offers free employee-only coverage to full-time and part-time colleagues based on income.

Learn more about Employee Benefits

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

Do you want to work where you have a voice? Nurses are at the forefront of our commitment to the care and improvement of human life. At HCA Healthcare, there are many ways for nurses to have a voice through professional practice councils, advisory councils, vital voices surveys, and units of distinction. We learn from our multi-generational nursing family. We partner with our Nurses at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery!

Job Summary and Qualifications

• Has demonstrated Clinical Judgment as evidenced by graduate of a school of nursing and has successfully passed board exam for licensure.
• The RN demonstrates the essential clinical knowledge to positively affect patient outcomes though implementation of the nursing process of assessing, planning, intervening and evaluating care within the scope of nursing practice per the guidelines of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
• Demonstrates competent or expert nursing skills.
• Demonstrates clinical wisdom through application knowledge.
• Documents effectively and succinctly in a timely fashion.
• Incorporates time management and prioritizes to demonstrate clinical judgment with efficiency.
• Follows LGHM process for dispensing of medications and narcotic control.
• Resolves clinical problems that occur at the bedside and in the care environment.
• Questions and evaluates practice, creates practice changes through research utilization and experiential learning.
• Motivated to seek literature to answer questions and brings best evidence to the bedside rather than relying on tradition.
• Completes annual educational requirements and other recommended learning activities.
• Demonstrates caring practices and engagement by creating a compassionate and therapeutic environment, promotes comfort and prevents suffering through presence and attentiveness.
• Creates a safe environment for patients.
• Extends caring practices to all members of the care team with a compassionate attitude. Demonstrates timely pain assessment and reassessment.
• Coaches other members of the team as applicable.
• Demonstrates sensitivity and values and respects the diversity of patients and team members and incorporates differences within the provision of care.
• Works on behalf of and represents the concerns of the patient/family/community and may be demonstrated through Multidisciplinary Rounds.
• Serves as a moral agent in identifying and helping to appropriately resolve ethical and clinical concerns.
• Maintains and grows competency in response to the needs of patients and the organization.
• Supportive of a learning environment characterized by mentoring and team development.
• Teaches patients and families beginning with orienting patients and families to the environment and continuing throughout hospitalization until the last interaction where instructions for home and/or the next provider are accurately provided.
• Proficient oral and written skills.
• Communicates with oncoming nurses, as applicable, and employs SBAR, Bedside Reporting, I-TRACE or other approved method of communication.
• Communicates with patients, families, other healthcare providers, and colleagues, in a professional manner.
• Collaborates with multi and interdisciplinary teams and demonstrates ability to negotiate and resolve conflict.
• Collaborates with patients and families and the healthcare team to create and maintain an individualized and efficient plan of care.
• Adheres to and promotes the regulations that safeguard the care including but not limited to: National Patient Safety Goals, ANA Standards of Care, Safe Patient Handling, and the Joint Commission Guidelines.
• Displays growth towards the ability to visualize the patient holistically and consequences of actions.
• Supports and engaged in Shared Governance structure as demonstrated through attendance, input and volunteering to serve on unit based or hospital councils.
• Demonstrates quality systems thinking through gaining and maintaining knowledge of the quality indicators (Core Measures, SCIP, NSIs, etc.).
• A professional role model within the community when representing the organization.

What qualifications you will need:

Required:

• Current license as RN in the Commonwealth of Virginia or Compact State
• BCLS certification within 90 days.
• ACLS certification 1 year after start date.

Preferred:

• BSN from an accredited school of nursing.
• Member of a national professional nursing organization
• Specialty certification from a national accrediting organization

LewisGale Hospital Montgomery has provided quality healthcare services since 1910. We give patient's access to trained physicians and advanced technology. Our 140+ bed hospital is one of the leading acute care facilities in Southwest Virginia and New River Valley. We specialize in heart and vascular care—with the only cardiac catheterization lab in the New River Valley. We perform percutaneous coronary intervention - (stent and angioplasty). We provide services in orthopedic and spine care, and heartburn treatment at LewisGale Hospital Montgomery’s Heartburn Treatment Center. Our maternity services through our family-focused Birthing Center facilities have award-winning lactation consultants.

At LewisGale Hospital Montgomery, our care like family culture extends to our patients, our people and our community. We are committed to each other because when we join together, our patients are cared for in the safest and most compassionate way.

HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.

"Bricks and mortar do not make a hospital. People do."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder

If this opportunity is your next step in your career path, we encourage you to apply for our RN Emergency Svcs opening. We review all applications. Qualified candidates will be contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.