RN | Float Pool | Per Diem

Job title: RN | Float Pool | Per Diem

About the Role Concord Hospital - Laconia is seeking experienced RNs to join our RN Float Team. The float team offers you the opportunity to use your diverse clinical skills and competencies in a variety of acute care settings. This float team position will offer exposure to a variety of medical/surgical or critical care units across the hospital and provide you with an opportunity to further develop your skill base.

What You'll Do

• Base nursing actions by applying principles of purposeful, organized thinking to make clinical judgment/decisions.
• Gather data through history taking and physical assessment and interprets data in order to plan and implement interventions to meet patient care needs.
• Develops, evaluates and revises patient's plan of care and nursing actions in response to patient's needs.
• Documents care provided and patient's progress toward attainment of desired outcomes.
• Directs and supervises others in the performance of delegated nursing activities.
• Teaches the patient and/or significant other(s) about the plan of care. Prepares patients to manage their care after discharge, transfer or preparation for procedure/test.
• Manages time and resources to deliver patient care.
• Administers medications to patients.
• Provides direct patient care.
• Leads the health care team.
• Serves as a Resource Person for assigned shift.
• Serves as a preceptor for new employees.
• Performs job specific requirements and other duties as assigned.
• Per Diems are required to work a minimum of 24 clinical hours every 4 weeks, which will include at least 1 weekend shift and at least 1 summer holiday and 1 winter holiday or difficult-to-fill shift around the observed summer and winter holidays.

What We're Looking For

• Education: Graduated from an accredited School of Nursing; BSN preferred.
• Certification, Registration & Licensure: Registered Nurse - New Hampshire Board of Nursing; Basic Life Support - American Heart Association.
• Experience: One year prior clinical nursing experience; evidence of experience working effectively with patients, care providers, and the multi-disciplinary team; evidence of ability to perform as a member of a team.
• Skills/Qualities: Evidence of the ability to perform as a member of a team; willingness to collaborate and communicate effectively.

Nice to Have

• BSN preferred.

Physical and Work Requirements

• The Dictionary of Occupational Titles Material Handling Classification is MEDIUM. The employee must regularly lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 pounds, frequently lift, carry or push/pull up to 10 - 25 pounds, and occasionally lift, carry or push/pull up to 20 - 50 pounds.
• The employee must regularly perform fine motor tasks, and be able to hear, speak, and walk; frequently bend, reach, sit, squat, and stand; and occasionally climb, perform repetitive motions, kneel, and smell.
• Specific vision abilities required include color vision, depth perception, far vision, near vision, and peripheral vision.
• The employee is frequently exposed to airborne pathogens, blood borne pathogens, and bodily fluids; occasionally exposed to airborne contaminants, chemotherapeutic agents, electrical hazards, moving mechanical parts, non-weather related heat or cold, slippery surfaces, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.