About the Role
UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health is offering 13-week travel contracts for RNs at Geneva General Hospital, focusing on ICU care.
Responsibilities
- Applies knowledge of nursing theory, technical and communication skills in delivering high quality compassionate care to patients and families.
- Assesses patient needs, develops a plan of care in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team, provides direct care, evaluates patient progress, and coordinates care delivery.
- Develops specialized skills to care for critically ill unstable patients in an Intensive Care setting.
- Develops a strong working knowledge of life support machines, cardiac monitoring systems, and other life-preserving medical equipment and nursing interventions essential for critical care.
- Provides patient and family education to assist with self-care beyond hospitalization, including lifestyle changes to support health and healing.
- Promotes comfort and provides emotional support in a healing environment.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing.
- Current NYS license to practice as a Registered Nurse.
- BLS, ACLS, PALS Basic Coronary Care certifications.
- 1-year ICU experience required.
- Moderate Sedation Competency.
- Analytical skills to assess, prepare, implement, and evaluate patient/family care outcomes.
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Ability to deal with people in a professional and courteous manner.
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to enhance the spirit of teamwork through effective role modeling.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and organization skills.
- Computer literacy.
Skills
- Nursing theory
- Technical skills
- Communication skills
- Compassionate care
- Patient assessment
- Care planning
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Direct patient care
- Patient progress evaluation
- Care coordination
- Critical care
- Life support machines
- Cardiac monitoring systems
- Life-preserving medical equipment
- Patient and family education
- Self-care support
- Lifestyle change support
- Comfort promotion
- Emotional support
- Moderate Sedation Competency
- Analytical skills
- Confidentiality management
- Professionalism
- Courtesy
- Time management
- Prioritization
- Teamwork
- Interpersonal skills
- Organization skills
- Computer literacy
Location
- Geneva, NY
Work Type
- 13-week travel contracts
- Day/Night and Weekend Rotations
- 12 hour shifts
Experience Level
- 1-year ICU experience
Education Level
- Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing
Salary/Compensations
- $60-$65 per hour
Benefits
- Health Insurance available at the first of the month, after 30 days
About the Company
- UR Medicine Finger Lakes Health is a multi-institutional health system providing a full range of acute and long term care health services to residents of the Finger Lakes region in Upstate New York.
- Acute and long term care services are provided on three campuses located in Ontario, Seneca and Yates Counties.
- Primary care services are provided in Ontario, Seneca, Wayne and Yates Counties.
- Vision: To be the Best Health System of our size in the U.S.
- Mission: Employer of Choice
