Essential Functions:
1. Utilizes the nursing process to ensure quality patient care is provided throughout the episode of care.
2. Ensures complete, accurate and timely computerized communication of patient information.
3. Demonstrates cost containment activities.
4. Communicates to the team, co-workers, patients and family members in an effective, positive and professional manner.
5. Takes personal responsibility and initiative for performance and for professional growth and development.
Education / Experience: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. At least one year Operating Room experience or participation in the post-graduate program required. Refresher course required for nurses who have not worked in an Operating Room or five years or more.
Licensure, Certification and / or Registration: Current licensures to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of North Carolina, CNOR preferred, BCLS required.
Practice Innovation
Resilient and flexible in a changing environment
Standards of clinical nursing practice
Systems for patient safety
Technology/informatics skills
Functions effectively under stressful and difficult situations
Req- 19988
Full Benefits
Competitive Salary
Shift Differentials:
• 3p-7a (2nd and 3rd shift)- $4.00 per hr.
• Weekends- $1.25 per hr.
Relocation Assistance Available
$10,000 Sign On Bonus
Conditions of Employment
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center strives to provide best-in-class nursing care to our patients. To continue to provide such high quality services, meet internal targets and comply with ACCN Magnet requirements for a plan to increase BSN staff to 80% by 2020, WFBMC desires to employ nurses who have achieved, or will achieve, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree. WFBMC will provide nurses who have earned an Associate Degree in Nursing a period of five (5) years from the date of hire to meet that educational requirement.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is the policy of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to administer all educational and employment activities without discrimination because of race, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or veteran status (except where sex is a bona fide occupational qualification or a statutory requirement) in accordance with all local, state, national laws, executive orders, regulations, and guidelines.
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As part of Wake Forest Baptist Health, Lexington Medical Center has the resources of a nationally recognized academic medical center at its doorstep, enabling the facility to offer world-class health care here, close to home. Lexington Medical Center is a not-for-profit facility which operates 94 acute care beds and serves as a satellite provider of Wake Forest Baptist Health specialty services including digestive health, ENT Head and Neck surgery among others. Lexington Medical Center is accredited by The Joint Commission and has been committed to providing for the health care needs of Davidson County since the 1920s. In addition, the medical center operates 14 physician practices and a public pharmacy.