Nurse Pros
Farmington, Connecticut
RN
Posted Aug 12 · Not open to new grads
- Shift
- 8-hour days
- Unit
- Psych
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 8-hour days
- Weekends
- Every weekend
- Term
- Travel
- On the floor
- Precepting expected · Floating required
- Practice
- Epic charting
- Setting
- Hospital
More role details
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- 1+ years
Ratio not posted. Ask in the interview.
Pay
- Against the board
- Overtime
- $55/hr
The median for nursing in Connecticut is $40/hr, across 98 postings. It covers every nursing role in the state, so it is a bearing, not a like-for-like comparison.
About this role
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UConn Health is searching for a per diem Registered Nurse to join our patient-focused care team at our new, state of the art facility. This position will be located in our inpatient Psychiatric 1 Unit and may float to the ECT/Esketamine Clinic
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Schedule
Per Diem -as needed, day shift, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tis position requires a minimum of 24 hours per four (4) week schedule and must be available to work one (1) weekend every eight (8) weeks or (1) weekend day or night every (4) weeks and must be available for one summer holiday and one winter holiday
Examples of
Duties
Performs a full range of tasks in providing nursing care to assigned patients
Performs individualized nursing assessments for each assigned patient
Develops/updates care plans utilizing established standards of care which include physician prescribed therapies and common nursing measures derived from disease related/therapy/personal needs
Organizes/coordinates patient care and collaborates with staff to implement patient care plans. Also, participates in staff/patient care conferences
Assists in clinical education/orientation of other staff; guides and supervises assigned personnel in the delivery of patient care; performs related duties as required
Minimum qualifications, knowledge, skills, abilities
Knowledge of the principles and practices of nursing
Knowledge of relevant health center policies and procedures
Considerable interpersonal skills; oral and written communication skills
Ability to establish priorities and manage effectively
Position
Requirements
Special
Requirements
Minimum 1 year inpatient hospital registered nurse acute care experience.
Telemetry experience with Intermediate step down level of care.
Must possess and maintain American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers. This is the only accepted credential.
Other CPR/AED credentials may be accepted at hire but incumbents will be required to obtain American Heart Association (AHA) BLS certification within six (6) months of hire
Preferred
Qualifications
Crisis Prevention Intervention Certification (CPI)
Electroconvulsive therapy training (ECT)
Psychiatric Assessments
Epic Experience
HOURLY RATE: $55-$65 per hour depending on shift assignment.
Why uconn health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
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Requirements
- SPECIAL
- Minimum 1 year inpatient hospital registered nurse acute care experience.
- Telemetry experience with Intermediate step down level of care.
- Must possess and maintain American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS) certification for healthcare providers. This is the only accepted credential.
- Other CPR/AED credentials may be accepted at hire but incumbents will be required to obtain American Heart Association (AHA) BLS certification within six (6) months of hire
- PREFERRED
- Crisis Prevention Intervention Certification (CPI)
- Electroconvulsive therapy training (ECT)
- Psychiatric Assessments
- Epic Experience
- HOURLY RATE: $55-$65 per hour depending on shift assignment.
- WHY UCONN HEALTH
- UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
Place
- City
- Farmington, Connecticut
- State price level
- 4% above the national average
- Address
- 263 Farmington Ave, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
Connecticut index 103.6, where 100 is the national average.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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You would be walking into UConn Health in Farmington, Connecticut — an integrated academic medical center and government employer founded in 1966, with a few thousand people on campus. Charting runs on Epic. RN staff have pointed to solid educational…
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Psychiatric is open from year one. Behavioral health spans inpatient, emergency, and community settings.
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