What are the responsibilities and job description for the Registered Nurse (RN) - Post-Surgical position at Advocate Aurora Health?
Atrium Health Mercy - Post-Surgical - Weekender Program Nights
About the Unit:
5 North is a 26-bed General Surgery specialty unit. We are a Med-Surg Unit with heavy surgical volume. We specialize in:
- Elective bariatric weight loss surgery - these are typically our happiest and easiest patients. They go to the OR and are expected to be up and ambulating on post op Day 0.
- General surgery - appendectomies, cholecystectomies, small bowel obstruction, etc.
- Foot and ankle ortho - total ankle replacements and infected foot wounds, BKA's etc.
- Urology surgery.
A Nurse on our Unit will gain experience in drains of all kinds, wound vacs, central lines, NGT, DHT, and all surgical things!
About This Location:
Atrium Health Mercy, a 196-bed facility of Carolinas Medical Center, is one of two Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) locations and is 1.3 miles from CMC. As a Planetree Designated facility, we focus on the following:
- Connect values, strategies, and action
- Implement practices that promote partnership
- Use evidence to drive improvement
- Create organizational structures that promote engagement
For more than 100 years, Atrium Health Mercy has treated approximately 80-110 ED and 130-212 in-patients daily with a special combination of human compassion and leading-edge expertise. Atrium Health Mercy is a full-service community hospital, specializing in the care of seniors and in complex foot and ankle surgery, hip and knee surgery, bariatric surgery, and women's pelvic health. Atrium Health Mercy is Magnet designated in Nursing Excellence and is also a Planetree designated patient-centered hospital. The Planetree model is committed to enhancing health care from the patient's perspective; empowers patients and families by providing information and education, cultivates healing of the mind-body-spirit, provides patient-directed care, is value-based, holistic and promotes safety of patients through active involvement in their own care.