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Catholic Health Initiatives

RN Burn Unit

Lincoln, NE · On-site

$36 - $52.20/hr

Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare ... The Burn and Wound Unit is a 16-bed center with two dedicated operating rooms as well as procedure ...

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RN Burn Unit

Catholic Health Initiatives

Lincoln, NE • On-site

$36 - $52.20/hr

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Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Registered Nurse (RN), you will be a pivotal healthcare professional, delivering compassionate, high-quality care that truly impacts our patients' well-being and recovery.

Every day, you will leverage your expertise to provide individualized, comprehensive care, making critical assessments, performing skilled procedures, and meticulously implementing patient care plans. You'll collaborate seamlessly within an interdisciplinary team, contributing to a dynamic environment focused on optimal patient outcomes.

To thrive in this vital role, you will possess keen assessment skills, acute critical thinking, and a patient-first mindset, driven by a profound enthusiasm to help others. Your sense of urgency and dedication to excellence in a fast-paced environment will not only support patient recovery but also fuel your own career advancement.

  • Follow the nursing process which includes: assess, plan, implement, and evaluate. The nursing process is an ongoing process that can end at any stage.

  • Assessment - Demonstrates a systematic, dynamic way to collect and analyze the following healthcare consumer data including: psychological, physiological, sociocultural, spiritual, economic and lifestyle factors

  • Plan - Sets measurable and achievable short and long term goals according to standards of care based on the assessment by the nurse in collaboration with the healthcare consumer and multidisciplinary team.

  • Implement - Implements and/or modifies the plan of care using assessment data, clinical reasoning based upon standards of care and evidence based practice. This includes care coordination, education and discharge planning. The nurse is accountable for the care directly, indirectly or through delegation. Professional and legal standards for delegation must be followed.

  • Evaluate - Uses a systematic ongoing process to evaluate progress towards identified healthcare consumer goals. Revision of plan of care when needed involving the healthcare consumer and the multidisciplinary team.

  • Documents all phases of the nursing process in the healthcare consumer's record.

We are offering a $10,000 Sign-on Bonus and Education Assistance to new hires that meet eligibility requirements.

Job Requirements

  • Graduate of an RN nursing program, upon hire

  • Registered Nurse: NE, upon hire and

  • Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire

Where You'll Work

CHI Health St. Elizabeth, founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration in 1889, is a full-service, 260-bed, nonprofit regional medical center in Lincoln, Neb. St. Elizabeth specializes in the treatment areas of newborn and pediatric care, women's health, burn and wound, cardiology, oncology, emergency medicine, orthopedics and neuroscience.

The Burn and Wound Unit is a 16-bed center with two dedicated operating rooms as well as procedure and treatment rooms for the ongoing care of burns and wounds. The St. Elizabeth Burn Center, is the region's only dedicated burn unit. We are verified by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the American Burn Association (ABA).

This special designation offers burn patients and the community:

  • specialized care, services, equipment and staff trained to treat the most critical burn injuries

  • leadership in research, education and prevention

  • resource to area hospitals in their region

http://www.chihealthstelizabeth.com/burn-and-wound-care.html

Pay Range

$36.00 - $52.20 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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About Catholic Health Initiatives

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We believe all lives should be filled with health and well-being; that each person should have the knowledge and resources to make the best and healthiest choices for themselves and their families, with access to care and services that make acting on these choices easy. And you deserve personal attention from people who acknowledge and understand your frustrations and work to eliminate them. It means working together because that’s the way we all improve. Catholic Health Initiatives offers expertise, convenience, resources and best-in-class care from a foundation of togetherness. To serve communities better, we’ve grown into the third-largest nonprofit health system in the nation. And we’re not done yet. We currently offer care in 18 states through 101 hospitals and clinics, including three academic health centers and major teaching hospitals as well as 29 critical-access facilities, community health-service organizations, and nursing colleges. We connect agencies, communities and facilities with a goal of bringing everyone the care they need where they need it.

Industry

Hospitals

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Englewood, CO, US

Year founded

1995

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