Nurse - Medical Surgical Telemetry - 5 West
Nurse - Medical Surgical Telemetry - 5 West
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Job Description
Serious Medicine is what we do. Being extraordinary is who we are. Every colleague plays a key role in upholding this promise to our patients and their families.
Shift:
Nurse Med Surg Telemetry 5 West
Position Highlights:
5 West is a 40bed non specialty medsurg unit caring for patients ages 18 and older. The staff cares for a variety of medical and telemetry patients with acute and/or chronic illness such as sepsis respiratory gastrointestinal endocrine cardiac disease and COVID19. Staff members will manage titratable drips chest tubes tracheostomies complex wound care postbariatric procedures high oxygen delivery systems and endoflife care.
5 West is known as the 5 West Wolfpack because of its outstanding teamwork. Its centralized nursing station allows staff to build camaraderie learn and grow together. The culture and closeknit environment on 5 West make this unit ideal for new and experienced nurses. It is the only unit in the hospital to have a Zen room which features a massage chair adult coloring books and other materials to support staff who need to reset their mindset.
The staff and leaders on our team are passionate about mentoring professional development and finding new and innovative ways to care for patients! 5 West leaders support their new staff by providing in depth orientation goal planning progress meetings and checkins 30/60/90 days postorientation completion.
All new graduate nurses get to attend nurse residency and encompassed in that program is a medicalsurgical fellowship to enhance knowledge on various disease processes for new graduate nurses.
5 West will transition to a teambased care delivery model in January 2025. Team based care is a group of licensed and unlicensed healthcare professionals working in unison towards a common goal to care for a group of patients. Our teambased care delivery model consists of Lead Nurses Registered Nurses Virtual Nurses Licensed Practical Nurses and Nursing Assistants. Virtual nurses are incorporated into the team to perform administrative tasks that require an RN license but do not require physical presence (i.e. admission and discharge paperwork patient education dual nurse sign offs etc..
Team based care allows for nurses to work at the top of their scope and effectively uses each team members strengths skills and experiences as well as promotes teamwork communication and leadership.
Employment Type
Full-Time
