Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Rotating Shift

Description:

Earn up to $10,000 in recruitment and retention incentives being offered for qualified RN's. Flexible scheduling and shifts. This team is dedicated to patient care and each other. If your passion is nursing, you'll love working with us!

Our Vascular Access (VAT) team includes RN’s and LPN’s who provide vascular access services throughout the hospital setting. Responsible for initiation of IV placement with routine site and dressing changes, CVAD dressing changes, CVAD troubleshooting including TPA administration, accessing and de-accessing implanted port systems, administering PPD/allergy panels, consult and treatment of extravasations, teaching peers and medical residents and obtaining laboratory specimens as needed. Our nurses are experts. We have a nurse driven Line Strategy and Bedside PICC insertion team to consult, collaborate with providers to ensure the best access is utilized and perform bedside PICC insertions.

Organization Highlights:

• Recognized Leader: First Magnet Designated Hospital in Syracuse, highlighting our professional nursing staff.
• Professional Relationships: Strong rapport with cardiology and hospitalist physician groups.
• Shared Governance: Unit practice counsel and open-door guiding principle gives all our nurses a voice.
• We encourage job share opportunities to enhance satisfaction and growth.
• Work/Life: Predictable patterned scheduling options balance work/life/school calendars.
• Only local hospital to receive a Leapfrog A for safety.
• Advancement: Strong orientation program and generous tuition allowance.
• We incorporate a primary care nursing model with a team approach to meet the needs of the patient population

What you will do:

• Participate in precepting and mentoring students and new staff.
• Bedside PICC insertions.
• Collaborative team approach.
• Consult, assessment and insertion of vascular access devices.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures quality nursing care is rendered to all patients in accordance with the New York Nurse Practice Act, National Standards of Practice, and Nursing and Clinical Service standards of care and practice.
• Utilizing the Nursing Process, plans, directs and supervises the care of patients in addition to being involved in the provision of direct care of patients and families.

Education, Training, Experience, Certification and Licensure:

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing and current licensure, or eligibility for licensure, in the State of New York. Graduate Nurses or RN’s with less than 1 year of experience please apply to the GN residency postings.
• Maintains current BLS/CPR certification.
• Participates in orientation, continuing education to stay current with practice and skills related to specific areas of expertise.
• National certification is promoted and supported for clinical ladder growth.

Career Path:

• Clinical ladder advancement with experience, staff engagement, and national certification.

• Career advancement to leadership roles as team leader, preceptor, mentor, coordinator/management.

Mission Statement:

• We, St Joseph's Health and Trinity Health, serve together in the spirit of the Gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Vision:

• To be world-renowned for passionate patient care and outstanding clinical outcomes.

Core Values:

• In the spirit of good Stewardship, we heal by practicing Justice in fostering right relationships to promote common good, Reverence in honoring the dignity of every person, Excellence in expecting the best of ourselves and others; Integrity in being faithful to who we say we are.

Work Environment and Hazards:

• Clinical setting. Exposure Class I

Physical Demands:

• Medium work: must be able to lift 25 pounds frequently; occasionally lifting maximum of 50 pounds. Will require ability to stand, walk, sit, bend, twist, squat and reach.

Work Contact Group:

• All services, medical staff, patients, visitors, and various regulatory and professional agencies.

Supervised By:

• Team Leader, Clinical Coordinator, Unit Manager, and Clinical Services/Nursing Administration.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.