Staff Nurse Infectious Disease Full-time Days

About the Role

Staff Nurse Infectious Disease Full-time Days at Northwestern Memorial Healthcare in United States. Salary: $34-$34/hr (Est. $71k-$71k/year). Benefits: signing bonus, 401k, health benefits.

Key Responsibilities

• Anticipated role advancement to Lead RN within 6-9 months of hire.
• Explains procedures, therapies and treatments to patient and family, evaluates and documents patient and family response to teaching.
• Uses appropriate resources to provide education.
• Adequately assesses and reassesses pain. Utilizes appropriate pain management techniques. Educates the patient and family regarding pain management.

Requirements

• Current experience (within past five years) or new nursing graduate (within past two
• State Licensed Registered Nurse for State of employment
• One year experience in pertinent clinical specialty

Benefits & Compensation

• Performs all aspects of patient care by utilizing evidenced based practice in a manner which optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/health care errors.
• Assesses, analyzes, validates and integrates data to assess patients' physical psychosocial, rehab, safety, learning, spiritual, cultural, age-specific, special risk and self-care needs.
• Identifies the patient's learning needs, abilities, preferences and readiness; also, identifies support systems, coping mechanisms and barriers to learning.
• Identifies and uses the results of quality improvement activities to initiate changes in nursing practice and in the healthcare delivery system.
• Salary Range Minimum: $34.50
• Salary Range Maximum: $55.20

Work Schedule

• Job Shift: Day Job (1st)