Job Description

Join the hospital trusted by Chicago’s Southland, Ingalls Memorial Hospital, in this role as a Registered Nurse (RN) with the Intensive Care Unit.

With the leadership of the Manager, the Registered Nurse functions as an interactive resource in clinical nursing and professional practice. The Registered Nurse is responsible for the coordinating of and performing direct nursing care for patients, utilizing concepts of the nursing process, serving as a resource, preceptor, mentor, and leader for physicians, professional peers, and other fellow employees, and providing participative supervision to the Patient Care Team Members in collaboration with the Patient Manager.

Sign-On Bonus Eligible!

Essential Job Functions

• Collaborates closely with physicians to assess, design, coordinate, implement and evaluate the patients’ plan of care and the patients’ outcomes.

• Demonstrates the necessary skills and knowledge to provide complex nursing skills and delegates tasks to other Care Team members according to unit-specific competencies as appropriate to the age of the patients served as delineated in the Patient Care Centers Scope of Care.

• Responsible for and monitoring the quality of patient care and patient satisfaction.

• Accurately and independently pursues professional development opportunities.

• Assumes responsibility to assure the daily operations of the Patient Care Center are effectively and efficiently maintained.

• Works within the accepted service standards and supports the Vision of Ingalls Hospital.

• Works in partnership with other patient care team members and pro-actively identify and provides for the individual patient, family, and physicians needs exceeding their expectations, and employing appropriate customer relations.

• Knows follows and actively supports the philosophy, mission, and Vision of Ingalls Hospital.

• Adheres to all hospital policies, procedures, and standards of care.

• Observes and adheres to all corporate compliance requirements and communicates issues as they arise to the appropriate parties as identified in the Corporate Compliance Plan.

Required ICU Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing with a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN) OR Associate's (ADN)
• Must hold a current RN Licensure State of Illinois Department of Professional Regulation or valid temporary permit to practice nursing in the State of Illinois.
• Must hold a current Basic Life Support certification (Healthcare Provider Recognition).
• Must have acute care or related experience providing nursing care to patients within at least the last five years. 

Preferred ICU Qualifications

• Completion of basic ECG class within one year of employment, successfully challenges basic ECG final examination if experienced in cardiac monitoring.
• Completion of critical care course within one year of employment or, current CCRN certification, or successfully challenges critical care exam if experienced in critical care.
• Completes advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) program within one year of employment and maintains certification.
• Completes code leader program within two years of employment.
• Completes Sheath removal class within two years of employment.
• Once ACLS has obtained completion of NIH Certification within one year.

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full-time (0.9) ; 12-hour shifts
• Shift: Days
• Unit/Department: Intensive Care Unit
• CBA Code: NNU National Nurses United

Why Join Us

For nearly a century Ingalls Memorial has pioneered sophisticated clinical care and developed the area's most convenient network of comprehensive outpatient centers, all dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the community. Now, partnered with UChicago Medicine, we have expanded our network of expert physicians, convenient facilities and scope of service to speed your healing process and help navigate your path to wellness. A skilled Medical Staff and talented employees dedicated to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and injury provide a firm foundation for our reputation for quality. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial is for you. Here at Ingalls, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us!

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UChicago Medicine Ingalls is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.