Float RN

Inpatient Float Pool 
Full Time 
Night Shift 
7p-7a

Sign-On Bonus: 20,000 

Consistently named best hospital, Lexington Medical Center dedicates itself to providing quality health services that meet the needs of its communities. Ranked #1 in the Columbia metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Medical Center is the only hospital named one of the Best Places to Work in South Carolina.

 

The 607-bed teaching hospital anchors a health care network that includes six community medical centers and employs more than 8,700 health care professionals. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina’s first HeartCARE CenterTM and an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence affiliated with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center for research and education. The network also features an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer’s care center and nearly 80 physician practices.  Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies. 

Job Summary

Functions in a role that provides supplemental staffing to units as assigned. Promotes and restores patients' health by completing the nursing process; collaborating with physicians and multidisciplinary team members; providing physical and psychological support to patients, , and families; supervising assigned team members. Identifies the needs of patients and families using the nursing process across practice settings and across the continuum of care. All responsibilities are carried out in accordance with the mission, vision, strategic imperatives and standards of the Lexington County Health District, American Nurses Association Standards and in accordance with the provisions/statues set forth by the South Carolina Nurse Practice Act.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education: ADN, Diploma or Bachelors of Science in Nursing
*New graduate RN’s who acquire their generic RN education through an on-line program will not meet LMC minimum qualifications
Minimum Years of Experience: 3 Years of acute care experience, with at least 1 year of Critical Care or Intermediate Care experience in the past 5 years
Substitutable Education & Experience: None
Required Certifications/Licensure: Current RN license to practice in the State of South Carolina; Current certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support Certification (or within 6 months of hire into the role.)
**Refer to Mandatory Certification Requirements P&P for required education/certification for various nursing specialties.
Required Training: None

Essential Functions

Patient Care and Support           

• Establishes positive rapport with patient and family;  Establishes a compassionate environment by providing emotional, psychological, and  spiritual support to patients, friends, and families;  Promotes patient's independence by establishing patient care goals; provides  education to patient, and family in a manner they can understand their condition,  medications, and self-care skills, etc. and provides them ample opportunity to ask  questions;  Serves as patient/family advocate;  Maintains continuity among nursing teams by documenting and communicating  actions, irregularities, and ongoing needs;  Uses a systematic critical-thinking approach to guide data gathering, assessment,  nursing judgement, intervention and evaluation of human responses to actual and  potential health problems;  Identifies, synthesizes and interprets sources of data using reasonable clinical  judgement to respond to dynamic situations in a timely and effective manner;  Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information  confidential;  Uses ethical decision making processes and advocates for acceptable patient outcomes;  Provides supplemental staffing to Medical Surgical or Critical Care Units as assigned;  Maintains competencies in areas of specialty such as Medical Surgical areas or  Critical Care.

Clinical Work Quality           

• Assures quality of care by adhering to therapeutic standards; measuring health  outcomes against patient care goals and standards; making or recommending  necessary adjustments; following hospital and nursing division's philosophies and  standards of care set by state board of nursing, state nurse practice act, and other  governing agency regulations;  Resolves patient problems and needs by utilizing multidisciplinary team strategies;  Participates in process/performance improvement activities and initiatives utilizing  evidence based practice to maintain and/or improve quality of care and safe patient  care systems and processes;  Maintains safe and clean working environment by com