Registered Nurse (RN) - Medical Emergency Team (MET)

$10,000 sign on bonus requiring a 2 year employment commitment! Relocation assistance may be available.

The Medical Emergency Team (MET) is the University of Virginia’s full-time, stand-alone rapid response program. Our mission is to improve the recognition and response to the deteriorating patient in areas that do not have critical or emergency trained clinicians. MET RNs actively seek out and respond to deteriorating and at-risk patients offering expertise, expedited care, and clinical guidance.
The successful candidate is an RN who is comfortable, skilled, and resourceful in crises outside the intensive care units. This candidate should be an expert clinician possessing the proven ability to provide top-shelf customer service. Teaching, rounding, and mentoring are all part of the MET RN workday. A candidate should be comfortable teaching small-to-medium sized groups.

This position is up-to full-time with night and weekend shifts expected. Prior ICU or ED experience is required (at least 2 years preferred). EMS experience is a plus. Your Clinical Ladder position is not as important as your ability to perform the technical, professional, and customer service duties. You must possess a current BLS certification; and you are expected to possess ACLS certification within your orientation period. MET nurses are hired for their judgment just as much as their skills; the successful candidate is able to assess, analyze, and act in stressful situations while maintaining customer service goals.

Capable clinician, focused on expanding knowledge and skills. Consistently provides effective direct care, as part of the interdisciplinary team, to a variety of complex patients. Manages care and implements treatment plans at a refined skill level in collaboration with patients, their families, physicians and other members of the health care team. Seeks as well as provides feedback for improved clinical practice. Assumes a beginning leadership role but seeks mentoring in this process.

ANA Scope and Standards of Practice definition of nursing:

Nursing is the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities and populations.

This job description integrates the ANA 2015 Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, Third Edition  and the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (ANA, 2015), and the UVA Nursing Professional Practice Model. 
 

• Relationship Based Care - Self and Colleagues: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Relationship Based Care - Patients and Families: reflects the influence of the nurse’s relationship with self, colleagues and patient/family on the patient experience.
• Expert Caring: encompasses clinical assessment, planning, prioritizing, coordinating and implementation of care.  
• Empowered Leaders: demonstrate knowledge of and actively participate in shared governance.
• Lifelong Learners: encompasses professional development through formal education, professional certification, internal and external learning opportunities and recognizes the value of external professional organizations. Supports onboarding of new team members and precepts as applicable.
• Quality Achievement: includes adherence to clinical documentation guidelines, comprehension of outcomes data, engagement in performance improvement activities and commitment to standard work. 
• Innovation: is demonstrated by application of technologies that support patient care, actively seeking to implement evidence based practice and new knowledge generated by nursing research.
• In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned.

Position Compensation Range: $39.90 - $53.00 Hourly

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education: Graduate of an accredited nursing program required. Bachelor of Science in Nursing required within 5 years of hire.
Experience: 1 year of relevant experience.
Licensure: Licensed to Practice as a Registered Nurse in the Commonwealth of Virginia. American Heart Association (AHA) Health Care Provider BLS certification required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires standing for prolonged periods, frequently traveling, bending/stooping. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull 20 - 50lbs. May be exposed to chemicals, blood/body fluids and infectious disease.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s