Registered Nurse (RN) - Stepdown Unit
Norfolk, Virginia
Health system employer
Posted Sep 5 · New grads welcomed · reported
- Shift
- 12-hour days
- Unit
- Step-Down Unit
What the listing says
Role
- Schedule
- 7a-7p
- Term
- Permanent
- Practice
- Epic charting
- Setting
- Hospital
- Accepts
- RN
- Experience
- New graduates
More role details
- Unit
- Step-Down Unit · 24 beds
- Patients
- Patient population is cardiac, cardiac prep, renal failure, vascular, sepsis, pneumonia, sickle cell, OR-Prep, and diverse wound care.
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Pay
- Sign-on bonus
- $15,000
- Relocation
- Help offered
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About this role
City/State Norfolk, VA
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Overview
Sentara is hiring a Registered Nurse (RN) at Sentara Norfolk General's Step-Down Unit in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Sign on Bonus up to $15,000 offered for qualified candidates. Relocation packages available!
Shift: Full Time, Day Shift (7a-7p)
Unit
Overview
Join the nursing team that is enjoying a beautiful, brand new 24 bed Medicine unit with new computers in every room and charting stations in hallways with windows to visualize patients! Blood pressure machines that talk with EPIC as Real Time Documentation. Patient population is cardiac, cardiac prep, renal failure, vascular, sepsis, pneumonia, sickle cell, OR-Prep, and diverse wound care. Great unit to make your way into ICU or the ED!
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Overview
The Registered Nursing (RN) is responsible to perform a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process. The standards of practice (assessment, diagnosis, outcomes identification, planning, implementation, coordination of care- teaching and health promotion and evaluation) along with the standards of professional performance (ethics, culturally congruent practice, communication, collaboration, leadership, education, evidence- based practice /nursing research, quality, evaluation, resource utilization, and environmental health) encompass the actions and foundation of professional nursing. The RN possesses clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.
All Direct Care RN's required to have BLS within 90 days of hire.
Education
- RN Degree REQUIRED
Certification/Licensure
- Virginia RN License REQUIRED
- Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification required within 90-days of hire
Experience
- Prior RN experience PREFERRED
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Benefits
Caring For Your Family and Your Career
- Medical, Dental, Vision plans
- Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
- Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
- Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
- Emergency Backup Care
- Long-Term, Short-Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
- Life Insurance
- 401k/403B with Employer Match
- Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
- Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
- Pet Insurance
- Legal Resources Plan
- Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met.
Here at Sentara, we are committed to consistently enhancing our training, advancement tracks, work-life benefits, and more. Our goal is to make you feel more excited to be here every day!
Sentara Norfolk General Hospital , located in Norfolk, VA, is a 525-bed tertiary care facility that is home to the only Level I Adult Trauma Center and burn trauma unit in Hampton Roads, and also serves as the primary teaching hospital for Eastern Virginia Medical School.
In addition to the high-quality heart program at Sentara Heart Hospital, our facility is home to Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance and several other dedicated facilities and specialized services. As a recognized accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center, and Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, our hospital specializes in heart and vascular, neurosciences, neurosurgery, urology, oncology, spine care, advanced imaging, behavioral health, maternity, and women’s health, including a state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit.
Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.
In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco-free environment.
For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
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Requirements
- rn license
- Academic medical center
- Care plan evaluation
- Nursing
- 403(b) matching
- Paid parental leave
- Magnet hospital
- RN License
- Caregiver leave
Place
- City
- Norfolk, Virginia
- Median rent
- $1,321/mo
- Local household income
- $66,109/yr
- Metro price level
- 2% below the national average
- Campus
- Sentara Norfolk General
rent and tenant-paid utilities · Census ACS 2024
all local households, not nurse pay · Census ACS 2024
Norfolk area index 97.9, where 100 is the national average.
Norfolk sits where the Elizabeth River meets the Chesapeake Bay, anchoring Virginia's coastal Hampton Roads region. Home to the world's largest naval base, this port city blends maritime energy with historic neighborhoods like Ghent, where tree-lined streets and local shops give nurses a welcoming home base between shifts.
Cost figures from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis · 2024 metro Regional Price Parities.
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Sentara Healthcare is a regional health system headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, with a mission to 'improve health every day.' The organization operates multiple hospitals and a medical group, with Sentara Norfolk General Hospital being a key facility in the system.…
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