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Job Summary:

The Pulmonary Medicine Stepdown Unit Registered Nurse will apply the nursing process to plan and implement the care of patients, including patient and family education and continuum of care planning. The Pulmonary Medicine Stepdown Unit Registered Nurse effectively communicates pertinent patient/family information to the health care team. Collaborate in establishing patient goals and evaluates progress to ensure effective outcomes. Further your professional growth by engaging in learning activities according to the Board of Nursing standards.

• $20,000 sign-on bonus for Licensed Nurses
• Relocation Assistance available

Department/Unit Summary:

As an Inpatient Medicine unit at Vanderbilt Medical Center, we are dedicated to our patients by providing quality care with attention to clinical expertise, evidence-based practice, patient safety and positive outcomes. We utilize an interdisciplinary team approach along the continuum of care in an effort to provide balance for the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs for every patient and their family. Our interdisciplinary team consists of physicians, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, dieticians, nursing leadership, and educators. We make a difference!

Our unit is located on the North Tower of the 8th floor of Vanderbilt University Hospital, VUH. We care for adults and geriatric patients. Services include but are not limited to care of adult patients with advanced lung disease diagnoses as well as patients requiring pulmonary or thoracic surgical interventions.

• 8 North is a 29-bed pulmonary medicine stepdown unit.
• The patient care we provide on this unit includes lung transplant patients
• There are two negative air-flow (isolation rooms) located on 8 North.
• There are 10 bedside telemetry monitors and 5 transmitters available on the 8th floor which can be used for patients in any patient room on the 8th floor.

Position Shift:

• Full-time (36 hours/week), night shift (7p-7a). We offer self scheduling and schedules are posted in six week increments.

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