Registered Nurse-Critical Care Float Part-Time Days

Northwestern Medicine is seeking a Registered Nurse for Critical Care Float on a part-time days schedule. In this role, you will provide direct nursing care to acutely ill patients across critical care units, applying the nursing process of assessment, planning, intervention, implementation, and evaluation. You will work as a float nurse, rotating among critical care areas to meet patient care needs while maintaining ANA standards of professional nursing practice.

Clinical Setting

You will work in critical care environments, providing care to acutely ill patients and collaborating with interdisciplinary health care teams.

Responsibilities

• Collect and analyze patient data, identify expected outcomes, develop and implement individualized care plans, coordinate care delivery, and evaluate progress toward patient outcomes
• Demonstrate hourly rounding behaviors consistently
• Direct care and determine appropriate utilization of assistants involved in direct patient care
• Serve as a critical response RN, including participation on rapid response teams, code blue teams, RN/telemetry consults, and patient visitations
• Create documented plans focused on outcomes and care delivery decisions, with documented communications with patients, families, and other care team members

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing
• Current State of Illinois Registered Professional Nurse license
• CPR – Basic Life Support certification
• CPR – Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification

Preferred Qualifications

• Telemetry skills with ability to pass a basic EKG test within one month of hire

Schedule

Part-time days

Benefits

Northwestern Medicine offers competitive benefits including tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, 401(k) matching, and lifecycle benefits. A wide range of benefits are available to support physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Additional Information

Background checks, including criminal history review, are conducted on newly hired team members and internal transfers in accordance with the Illinois Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within one year are not eligible for sign-on bonuses, with the exception of new graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical position.