Float RN

General Purpose:

To provide optimal patient care according to current nursing standards. The Float RN is accountable to the Acute Care Manager.

Essential Functions:

The Float RN is accountable and responsible for the provision and coordination of clinically competent care of assigned group of patients that includes assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation. As a member of the clinical care and unit team, the RN participates in decision-making, teaching, leadership functions, research and quality improvement activities that enhance patient care outcomes and unit operations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Float RN will float as assigned to two or more departments and is a professional care giver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and provides care to these patients via therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the therapeu...