Join our Nurse Residency Program! Accepting applications for New Grad RNs - apply anytime (must pass NCLEX before starting the program)

** Retention Bonus / Relocation Assistance offered with great benefits **

About our program:

• 4 month paid residency

• Excellent benefits

• 36-hour work week

• Guaranteed full time placement

• Rotations in: Med Surg Telemetry, Pediatrics, Emergency Dept, ICU, Surgery, Labor & Delivery/Nursery, Behavioral Health, Cath Lab

Essential Functions / Major Responsibilities:

• Assists direct caregiver in the assessment, planning, diagnosis, implementation, evaluation and modification of nursing care. Reports patient status to a Registered Nurse preceptor and assures documentation is validated.

• Participates with other disciplines in the planning, implementation, evaluation and modification of nursing care and gives direct nursing care.
• Performs nursing procedures as outlined on the Registered Nurse Skills Delineation List for which competency has been established and signed off. Each skill must have been observed and validated by the extern’s Clinical Instructor or preceptor during the residency program period.
• Demonstrates ability to evaluate suggestions and criticisms objectively and, when necessary undertakes to change behavior or seek further guidance.
• Demonstrates a commitment to quality through participation in continuous improvement activities, offering constructive suggestion for change and improvement in the hospital/units overall operation and efficiency, and sharing information and evaluation effectiveness.
• Demonstrates ability to adapt to change which directly or indirectly impacts on job responsibilities.
• Practices listening skills when dealing with concerns, complaints, questions, demonstrating objectivity in emotional situations.
• Demonstrates sensitivity to fellow workers needs as they relate to the job by providing support, giving advice or referring to appropriate sources of help when needed.
• Shares responsibility for team assignment and unit workload, offering assistance to others.
• Consistently conforms to department dress code and maintains appearance suited to position.
• Maintains punctual attendance for all assigned duties.
• Demonstrates flexibility in scheduling and accepting assignments.
• Demonstrates initiative and motivation in managing and utilizing time.
• Maintains own time card accurately.
• Demonstrates active participation in professional growth activities.
• Identifies and pursues own educational needs.
• Attends staff meetings or reviews meeting minutes when absent.
• Satisfactorily completes all mandatory in service education programs annually (BLS, Re-Orientation, Competency Skills, etc.).
• Utilizes opportunities for cross training.
• Displays proper etiquette and mannerisms that adhere to the SHINE Behaviors.
• Promotes the Patient Safety Standards as a core value of the organization.

Secondary Functions:

• Maintain a safe and clean environment.
• Act to reverse negative service situations using AIDET – Acknowledge, introduce, duration, explain, thank technique.
• Respect the privacy and confidentiality of the people we serve, our physicians/healthcare providers, and our fellow employees.
• Master the skills needed to do your best for the people we serve.
• Positively represent Summit Regional Medical Center in the workplace and in the community.
• Participates in departmental and hospitalwide informational meetings and inservices, including staff meetings, hospitalwide forums, and seminars.
• Reviews department and hospitalwide policies and procedures annually.
• All other duties as assigned.

Job Scope:

This job involves:

• Recurring work situations with occasional variations from the norm.
• A moderate to high level of complexity.
• Operation from established and well-known procedures.
• Performance of duties under moderate supervision.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• None

Interpersonal Contacts:

Contacts:

• Are normally made with others both inside and outside the hospital.
• Are usually made with own department staff and supervisor as well as with other departments or locations.
• Frequently contain confidential/sensitive information necessitating discretion at all times.
• Are usually face-to-face, with some contact by telephone and e-mail.
• Are usually with patients, with some physician contact.

Specific Job Skills & Mental Activities:

This position requires general nursing skills and knowledge of general office equipment (including the nurse call system, telephone system, fax machine, copy machine, computer, and commonly used hospital programs) as well as excellent computer, communication, critical thinking, problem solving, leadership, supervisory, interpersonal skills, basic math skills, and be able to exercise independent judgment skills when necessary. This position also requires knowledge of hospital equipment and programs, including all Hospital Information Systems and department specific equipment. This position requires self-direction and self-motivation. Must be able to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Education and/or Experience:

• High School diploma or equivalent-Required
• Current CPR/BLS certification-Required within 30 days of hire date.
• Current AZ RN licensure or must have passed NCLEX-Required by the start of the Residency program
• 2 Letters of recommendation-Required
• Cover Letter-Required
• Copies of Nursing Transcripts-Required
• Resume-Required

Requirements for this program are as follows:

• Agree to commit to Summit Healthcare for two years working Full Time hours (36 hrs/wk).
• Agree that no prescheduled paid time off will be allowed during the residency program.
• Must maintain employment in good standing

Physical Demands & Job Conditions:

Heavy

Exert up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 lbs. of force frequently, and/or up to 20 lbs. of force constantly to move objects. The worker is subject to on-call status, contact with chemicals, contact with infectious fluids, heavy lifting, constant standing, and encounters with upset/disturbed individuals.

Physical motions include finger dexterity, standing, walking, stooping, crawling, talking, reaching, feeling, sitting, bending, kneeling, climbing, grasping, listening/hearing, handling, lifting up to 50-100 pounds, and repetitive motions of the hands, wrists, and feet.

OSHA Exposure Category:

OSHA Exposure Category 1Involves exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues.