About Us
McLaren Health Care, headquartered in Grand Blanc, Michigan, is a $7.3 billion, fully integrated health care delivery system committed to quality, evidence-based patient care and cost efficiency. The McLaren system includes 12 hospitals in Michigan, ambulatory surgery centers, imaging centers, a 640-member employed primary and specialty care physician network, commercial and Medicaid HMOs covering more than 732,838 lives in Michigan and Indiana, home health, infusion and hospice providers, pharmacy services, a clinical laboratory network and a wholly owned medical malpractice insurance company. McLaren operates Michigan’s largest network of cancer centers and providers, anchored by the Karmanos Cancer Institute, a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers. McLaren has 20,000 full-, part-time and contracted employees and more than 113,000 network providers throughout Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
Registered Nurse SWAT-Rapid Response Team
Schedule: Variable- will primarily be night shift 7pm start
Position Summary:
Registered nurse who functions as the hospital wide Rapid Respond and SWAT Nurse responding to Acute Care Unit requests for urgent or emergent patient care needs. Provides emergency response as needed based on specific unit needs, patient activity and crisis situations of an intermittent nature. Great opportunity for the next step into a leadership role. PICC line training will be included with this position.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
1. Responds to medical emergency problems including Code Blue, Rapid Responses, and Code MTP’s. Supports floor staff concerns regarding patient decline/clinical assessment.
2. The RN will demonstrate the ability to quickly assess a patient when there has been a change in status and help to monitor and provide patient interventions as required.
3. Accompanies Acute Care patients when they must be transported within the hospital (ex. MRI/CT, diagnostic testing, IR, floor to ICU transfers)
4. Assists floor staff with difficult IV starts utilizing ultrasound guided IV placement as needed.
5. Provides insertion, care and maintenance for patients requiring Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICC): inserted into basilic, brachial, or cephalic vein, Examples include, but not limited to the following: PICC, Power PICC®, and Midline Catheters.
6. Assists with Admission and Discharges from Emergency Department to Acute Care Units to facilitate patient experience and throughput.
7. Active participant in Code Blue Committee including performing audits and action plans required for this committee.
Required:
· Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
· Active Michigan RN license
· ACLS certification
· BLS certification
· Previous experience in critical care/emergency department setting
Preferred:
CCRN certification
TNCC certification
Ultrasound Guided IV insertion experience
Equal Opportunity Employer
McLaren Health Care is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identification, age, sex, marital status, national origin, disability, genetic information, height or weight, protected veteran or other classification protected by law.
