Registered Nurse (RN) – Nurse Resident, Midlands, July 2021
- Prisma Health
- Columbia, SC, USA
Job Description
This job has the responsibility of attending all quality and core curriculum classes, actively participating in professional development workshops and peer support groups, and successfully completing all clinical competencies and validation requirements of the Nurse Residency Program. Works under the direct and indirect supervision of the Nursing Orientation and Education Team while refining nursing knowledge and skills. Actively participates in managing clinical situations for which he/she is assigned. Will rotate through all units and specialties as assigned. All team members are expected to be knowledgeable and compliant with Prisma Health’s Standards of Behaviors, Mission, and Values of compassion, dignity, excellence, integrity, and teamwork.
Are you a new grad or RN with less than one year of nursing experience? If so, our Nurse Residency Program is for you! Prisma Health-Midlands is committed to providing new graduate nurses with a solid foundation to launch their nursing career. The nurse residency program combines foundational and specialty specific clinical core curriculum, quality classes, simulation, one-on-one skills validation, hands-on application with clinical mentors and professional development.
We are offering positions in the service lines listed below for multiple locations throughout the Midlands region of South Carolina. After review of your application, you will receive a questionnaire to indicate your service line, unit, and location preferences.
Comprehensive Acute Care
The start date for this service line is July 19, 2021. Your RN license must be posted online by July 12, 2021.
Critical Care
The start date for this service line is July 12, 2021. Your RN license must be posted online by July 5, 2021.
Emergency Department
The start date for this service line is July 12, 2021. Your RN license must be posted online by July 5, 2021.
Perioperative Services
The start date for this service line is July 26, 2021. Your RN license must be posted online by July 19, 2021.
Women's Services
The start date for this service line is July 26, 2021. Your RN license must be posted online by July 19, 2021
*With your application you will be required to upload one clinical letter of recommendation, one personal letter of recommendation and your unofficial transcript. Your application is not considered complete without these items.
Accountabilities
- Assessment: Collects patient data and completes required forms with appropriate responses according to unit standards; identifies patient’s problems/needs and sets priorities; identifies problems requiring further referral and/or follow-up; interprets and records latest diagnostic results; performs nursing assessment using critical thinking skills.
- Planning Care: Develops a plan of care based on nursing process and which incorporates the plans of other disciplines and continuing care needs; includes the patient/family in developing or revising the plan of care; makes referrals to multidisciplinary support services.
- Implementing/Managing Care: Care provided conforms to accepted practice standards; provides treatments/procedures and other care as prescribed and according to patient care standards; demonstrates understanding of age-related characteristics and needs of patients served; explains nursing procedures; provides discharge teaching; identifies emergency situations and independently initiates advanced therapy; acts as an advocate and coordinator of patient care with other health care personnel and evaluates patient care measures instituted; understands and demonstrates respect for patient rights and utilizes established mechanisms for management of ethical issues in patient care.
- Evaluation: Records patient care delivered as planned and any variation, with appropriate rationale; makes and records observations related to impending or associated problems; implements nursing measures related to impending or associated problems.
- Leadership: Using nursing process, delegates nursing care to appropriate personnel; integrates cost effective measures into nursing practice; recognizes unit problems and takes responsibility for documenting same; demonstrates active participation in QI processes; complies with hospital expectations to meet staffing demands based on patient care needs; complies with policies addressing safe working conditions; monitors unsafe working conditions; recognizes inappropriate and/or ineffective patient care management, resolves issue/problem and completes written reports; fulfills call for unit as assigned and adjusts staffing for census (volume) and acuity
Supervisory/Management Responsibility
This is a non-management job that will report to a supervisor, manager, director, or executive.
Minimum Requirements
Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing program and approved by the South Carolina State Board of Nursing required. Bachelor's degree in Nursing preferred. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.
Candidates with greater than 12 months experience are not eligible
Required Certifications/Registrations/Licenses
RN currently licensed in South Carolina. BLS required
A solid foundation for new graduate nurses
Prisma Health is committed to providing new graduate nurses with a solid foundation to launch their nursing career. The Nurse Residency Program combines quality classes, core curriculum, simulation, one-on-one skills validation, hands-on application with preceptors and professional development.
Applications for our September 2021 service lines will open by the end of June 2021.
Program Structure
- Structured orientation plan with (6-20 weeks, dependent on service line) guided education, computer-based training content and precepted time with experienced RNs
- Clinical, professional development and reflective practice sessions to aid in the development of self-care and resilience
- Simulation and skill lab experience using current professional curriculum, standards and evidence-based guidelines
- Interactive class and computer-based educational support from national nursing organizations per service line-specific content
- Engagement with Prisma Health clinical experts and leaders in a multi-disciplinary approach to patient care
- Successful completion of weekly goals and objectives per service line, in addition to a program and simulation competency final
The benefits of being in the Prisma Health Nurse Residency Program
Prisma Health welcomes new graduate registered nurses, and our goal is to make a successful, smooth transition period for you as you grow from functioning as a student nurse into a practicing registered nurse. Our programs will provide you with support and education from expert educators in the field to help you increase your knowledge, confidence and critical-thinking skills. Apart from the clinical knowledge you will gain, you will also have the opportunity to network with other new graduates and experience the spectrum of nursing offered at Prisma Health.
Who leads the Nurse Residency Program?
Each service line is led by clinical educators with a vast range of experience and expertise in your chosen specialty. All of our clinical educators who serve in our programs have a love and a desire to teach. Along with mentoring new graduate nurses, our educators are integrated into all aspects of the Nurse Residency Program experience.