RAPID RESPONSE REGISTERED NURSE / RN

7a-7:30p/ Full Time / 36 Hours per week
Emory University Hospital - Midtown
We are proud to be the only health system in Georgia with four Magnet®-recognized hospitals. We’re looking for experienced and passionate critical care nurses and nurse leaders who are ready to join a team that’s redefining quality nursing care.

The (RUN) Resource Utilization Nurse is primarily responsible for supporting the critical care units of Emory Healthcare.

• Provide a consistent level of care by assisting with patients leaving the ICU for diagnostic testing or procedures, assuming a direct patient care assignment as needed while the primary nurse is off unit with another patient, and assisting in response to Code Mets and Code Blue.
• Assist the emergency department in the management of critical care patients awaiting inpatient bed admission as well as EUHOP full capacity protocol as available. Conduct monitoring on patients transferred out of the Intensive Care Units to general units, and Code Met and Code Blue transfers.
• Care of the ICU patient during transport when other resource options have been exhausted.
• Responding to code met and Code Blue serving as a resource to support the patient during stabilization and transfer to an ICU.
• Rounding on ICU patients that have transferred out of the Intensive care unit and patients who have been transferred to the ICUs post Code Met or Code Blue within 24 hours to enhance continuity of care, communication and customer service.
• Provide tracking, data collection and monitoring of metrics used to measure the productivity and quality of care delivered.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Graduate of an accredited prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), AND - 3 years of recent nursing experience in critical care and ability to manage patients in all specialty of Emory Critical Care OR, 2. Graduate of an accredited prelicensure Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) with a minimum of 3 years of recent nursing experience in critical care and ability to manage patients in all specialty of Emory Critical Care
• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• 3 yrs critical care experience and ability to manage patients in all specialties of Emory Critical Care
• A valid, unencumbered Registered Nursing License approved by the Georgia Board of Nursing.

• Provide a consistent level of care by assisting with patients leaving the ICU for diagnostic testing or procedures, assuming a direct patient care assignment as needed while the primary nurse is off unit with another patient, and assisting in response to Code Mets and Code Blue.
• Assist the emergency department in the management of critical care patients awaiting inpatient bed admission as well as EUHOP full capacity protocol as available. Conduct monitoring on patients transferred out of the Intensive Care Units to general units, and Code Met and Code Blue transfers.
• Care of the ICU patient during transport when other resource options have been exhausted.
• Responding to code met and Code Blue serving as a resource to support the patient during stabilization and transfer to an ICU.
• Rounding on ICU patients that have transferred out of the Intensive care unit and patients who have been transferred to the ICUs post Code Met or Code Blue within 24 hours to enhance continuity of care, communication and customer service.
• Provide tracking, data collection and monitoring of metrics used to measure the productivity and quality of care delivered