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**Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:** Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
**Organization:**
Medical Surgical
**Job Summary:**
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of diverse individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your diversity of culture, thinking, learning, and leading is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
This position involves delivery of nursing care based upon nursing process under the direction of a Registered Nurse according to the hospital's policies and procedures.
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**Hours of Position:**
7a-7p, 36 hours/week
**$10k Sign-on Bonus for eligible candidates (current employees and candidates who have worked at Vanderbilt within the last year are not eligible.)**
The Med/Surg Unit is located on the 2nd floor at Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital (VTHH). It is a Medical/Surgical/Telemetry Unit. There are 30 beds on the unit and the Nurse to patient ratio is 1:5-6.
The environment on our unit is friendly, patient-focused, and based on teamwork. We care for adult and pediatric patients from infants to geriatrics who are being treated for a variety of medical diagnoses. Our patients are unique because they live in our communities.
One of the perks of working on our unit is our willingness to nurture our new graduate nurses. Our nurses are successful because they have a support system, are treated with kindness, and develop a sense of teamwork.
We orient new nurses to our unit by providing a six-to-eight-week unit-specific orientation with a dedicated preceptor.
WE ENCOURAGE PROFESSIONAL GROWTH.
If your career goal is to gain strong clinical experiences, the VTHH Medical/Surgical/Telemetry Unit can help with this by exposing you to a variety of diagnoses and providing you with the skill set to build upon. We are always interested in expanding our team of RNs and LPNs.
Vanderbilt Health recognizes that diversity is essential for excellence and innovation. We are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and to the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ability to demonstrate effective communications skills, empathy, and unconditional positive regard toward all patients and co-workers.
- Delivery of clinical practice utilizing standards of practice and in accordance with the hospitals mission & vision.
- Ability to work under limited supervision and to follow written and oral instructions.
- Knowledge of bio psychosocial and spiritual aspects of human behavior ranging from infancy to geriatrics.
- Compliance with organizational requirements, including policies, procedures and regulations specific to your unit.
- Mechanism must be provided for contact of employee (i. e., cell phone, telephone, emergency contact).
- Flexibility in schedule in order to meet the needs of the patients, community and staff.
- Participates in performance improvement to improve patient outcomes.
- Maintains licensure, required certification and annual education requirements prior to due date.
- Demonstrates professional behavior with a positive outlook at all times
- Knowledge and implementation of standardized PPE regarding the prevention / transmission of infectious disease / isolation processes.
- Other duties as assigned.
TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
**Our Nursing Philosophy:**
We believe highly skilled and specialized nursing care is essential to Vanderbilt University Medical Center's mission of quality in patient care, education and research. We believe nursing is an applied art and science focused on helping people, families and communities reach excellent health and well-being.
As a Vanderbilt University Medical Center employee, you make a difference to our patients and their families by bringing compassion and care to those in need of hope and healing. Please see our current employee benefits offered:
Affordable High Quality Health Plan Options
Dental and /or vision plan
403 (b) retirement plan
Paid Time off (flex PTO)
Tuition Reimbursement and adoption assistance (maximums applied)
Short-Long term disability
Subsidized backup childcare
And many more... **Ask us about our current inpatient nursing supplemental Pay Program!**
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