Winter 2025 New Graduate RN Mercy Adult Acute Care/Inpatient Units

Department:

34404 Carolinas Medical Center: Mercy - Nursing: 5N Surgical Telemetry

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

36

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Variable

Pay Range

$34.90 - $52.35

By applying to the following application you will be applying for all Mercy Adult Inpatient units listed below. 

2 North/Mercy Horizons: 16-bed Med/Surg/Tele Observation unit combined with an 11-bed voluntary medical detox unit (benzo, ETOH, and opiates). 

3 North: 31-bed Med/Surg/Tele unit with a renal focus

4 North: 29 bed Cardiac Med/Tele unit with Heart Failure focus

5 North: 26- bed Surgical/Tele unit specializing in general surgery, ortho, and urology

6 South: 34-bed Med/Surg/Tele unit specializing in all types of med/surg issues 

7 North/South: 22- bed Ortho surgery unit combined with a 26-bed Med/Surg/tele and ortho overflow unit. Specializing in Hip replacements, knee replacements, Shoulder replacements, and spine surgery. 

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.

Job Summary

The RN Clinical Nurse I provides professional nursing care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, and evaluation in accordance with facility or department policies procedures, and/or protocols under the supervision of the nursing leader. Assists in maintaining a safe work environment and performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner. Maintains clinical and professional competency as appropriate to the population of patients served.

Essential Functions

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation. Analyzes the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses, problems, and issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
• Practices in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
• Communicates effectively in all areas of practice.
• Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
• Leads within the professional practice setting and the profession.
• Integrates evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality nursing practice.
• Evaluates one's own and others nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan, provide, and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe, effective, and fiscally responsible.
• Practices in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
• Practices ethically.
• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.

Physical Requirements
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