Description

Job Description

Overview

Are you an upcoming nurse graduate or recent nurse graduate? Please apply through our pipeline requisition here: iuhealth.org/ApplyRN . This pipeline requisition allows the IU Health Talent Acquisition team to pair upcoming & recent nurse graduates with the best opportunities available to them based on their unique skillset and interests. Thanks for your interest in joining the team!

Indiana University Health is looking for passionate, experienced nurses to join our team and collaborate with top medical professionals.

At IU Health, you will learn and develop your career in significant ways, advancing healthcare and delivering the highest level of patient care. Being an IU Health nurse means building a professional nursing career designed by a culture that accepts your outstanding strengths and supports your personal and professional goals. If you are seeking an organization where you can develop clinical expertise, explore diverse career opportunities, embrace learning, cultivate new relationships, and fuel your spirit of inquiry, apply today.

*This is a Full-time, day shift position *

Our Pre-OP/GI department in our main hospital location consists of 14 pre-op rooms with 1 GI suite and 1 bronchoscopy suite. Our nurses are responsible for assisting with assessments and preparation of patients scheduled for surgery, endoscopy, and bronchoscopies. Our patients are comprised of all ages from 8 months to geriatric. Our nurses practice safe patient care while being self-reliant and understanding hospital resources that can be utilized. Our schedule requires weekend, weekday, and holiday call rotation along with an on-call requirement with a 1-hour response window.

Nursing skills gained:

• Starting IV
• Assessing and monitoring vital signs (Heart Rate, Blood Pressure, Oxygen)
• Hanging Antibiotics
• Drawing Labs
• Assessing blood sugar
• Focused assessments on all Pre-Op patients
• Bedside sedation
• Bronchoscopy circulator and recovery Nurse
• Intra-Op GI Nurse
• GI Recovery Nurse

Unit Successes/Designations/National recognition:

• Magnet Certified Facility

Unit Culture Highlights:

• Nurses treating patients with compassion, care, and clinical excellence as you will provide critical assessment skills to outpatients and inpatients.
• Positive environment, teamwork is imperative, strong collaboration with anesthesia and surgeons.
• Collaboration between inpatient units, the Operating room, Recovery, Physicians, X-ray, Pulmonary team, and Cytology

Qualifications

• Bachelors of Nursing (BSN) required for those newly hired or promoted into the position after May 1, 2023.
  • Masters of Nursing preferred.
  • Requires an active Registered Nurse (RN) license in the state of Indiana or an active Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) RN license.
  • Requires that the RN has graduated from a nationally accredited nursing program.
  • Requires Basic Life Support certification through the AHA.
  • Other advanced life support certifications may be required per unit/department specialty according to patient care policies.
• Certifications consistent with clinical area requirements.
• Experience level to support a highly skilled ability to lead and to provide effective clinical reasoning, decision-making and clinical thinking.
• A high level of interpersonal, negotiation, collaboration, problem-solving and analytical skills and ability to maintain quality-working relationships.
• Ability to recognize and respect cultural diversity.
• Commitment to goal-directed, quality patient care outcomes.
• Ability to plan and manage resource utilization.
• Ability to maintain standards of patient confidentiality.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer service skills, with special emphasis on patient/family-centered care.
• Ability to promote teamwork and build effective relationships.
• Ability to take initiative and plan care toward quality patient outcomes.

Why Join IU Health?

As Indiana's largest and most comprehensive healthcare system, and the number 1 ranked healthcare system in Indiana, we offer:

• A supportive and collaborative work environment that is patient centered.
• Competitive benefits.
• 401(K) retirement savings with employer match.
• Employer paid medical leave.
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan forgiveness - IU Health qualifies under the public service loan forgiveness program.
• Employee Assistance Program - Counseling at no cost to you
• Healthy Results - Participation in our team member wellness programs award points that contribute toward a biweekly financial incentive in your paycheck. The more you participate, the more you earn.

Our culture of compassion allows for a holistic delivery of care that is individualized based on our patients' and their families' needs. At IU Health, every team member is a caregiver. This care does not stop with our patients, it also extends to one another and our community through service projects, health initiatives and wellness education.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion at IU Health. IU Health does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, national origin, gender identity and/or expression, marital status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.