Nurse Intermediate Care

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

• ASSESSMENT: The registered nurse completes initial patient assessment and reassessments as indicated by patient condition, and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• CRITICAL THINKING: The registered nurse demonstrates critical thinking by implementing the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation) and using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems, and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• PHYSICAL ABILITIES: The registered nurse has the physical ability to safely and effectively care for patient population assigned and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION: The registered nurse manages medication administration and intravenous (IV) access according to physician's orders and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• DOCUMENTATION: The registered nurse documents nursing care and patient status in accordance with the nursing process and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.
• COMMUNICATION: The registered nurse has communication abilities sufficient to promote patient and family centered care by interacting with patients, families, and care-delivery team in verbal and written form and assures practices comply with human resources, policies/procedures, and professional standards.

Job Requirements

Required

• One (1) year experience as an RN in an acute care setting or successful completion of applicable clinical and didactic SRDH specialty training course(s) or program.
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing. 
• Registered Nurse: NV, 
• Basic Life Support - CPR
• NIHSS = NIH Stroke-AM Stroke ASC-Nat'l
• Please be advised that this location requires quarterly American Heart Association (AHA) Resuscitation Quality Improvement (RQI) competency certification post-hire. This ongoing competency is required through resources internal to the facility; outside RQI competency resources are not acceptable for CommonSpirit Health compliance requirements.

Preferred

• Bachelors Of Nursing
• Two (2) years experience as an RN in an acute care setting.

Where You’ll Work

The Rose de Lima Campus, a 10-bed hospital in Henderson, offers emergency services, diagnostic imaging, and limited inpatient care, serving all patients regardless of their ability to pay. As the community's only not-for-profit, faith-based healthcare system, Dignity Health Nevada has been guided by the Adrian Dominican Sisters' vision for over 70 years. As Henderson and Las Vegas continue to grow, Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican, with more than 3,400 team members, remains committed to the Sisters' mission of serving those in need. St. Rose Dominican is part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems, encompassing over 9,000 physicians, 60,000 team members and 400 care centers across 22 states. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable care, especially for the underserved.