Registered Nurse

Job Description

Registered Nurse | Henry Ford Health Genesys

The Tone:
This is a part-time Registered Nurse role at Henry Ford Health Genesys, located in Grand Blanc, Michigan. In this position, you will utilize independent professional judgment and analytical skills to provide comprehensive nursing services within the TCU/Stepdown department. The role is critical for ensuring patient well-being through clinical competence, compassion, and a focus on quality outcomes, guided by established frameworks like the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner’s Domains of Nursing Practice. This position also emphasizes customer service orientation, process and outcomes, and cost-consciousness.

The TL;DR
• Role: Registered Nurse
• Type: Part-Time, 7am – 7:30pm every 3rd weekend; 36-60 hours per pay
• Location: In-person, Grand Blanc, MI

• Team: TCU/Stepdown Department
• Mission: Provide comprehensive and compassionate nursing care, coordinating multidisciplinary plans, educating patients, and ensuring quality outcomes within a transitional care and stepdown unit.
• Tech Stack: Nursing Problem Care Sets (Core Outcomes & Core Intervention Sets), SKINN Bundle, Fall Prevention Plan, SCD, Medication Reconciliation, NIC, NOC, SBAR tool, IV pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, feeding pumps, patient beds.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Coordinate Patient Care Plans: Develop and coordinate multi-disciplinary plans of care in accordance with Nursing Problem Care Sets, clinical practice guidelines, age-specific requirements, and professional standards to optimize patient length of stay, resource use, and quality outcomes.
• Provide Comprehensive Patient Assessment & Education: Assess patient and family needs, perform admission and ongoing reassessments, identify risk factors like falls or skin breakdown, and implement patient teaching across the continuum using various techniques to ensure understanding and effective self-care.
• Administer Therapeutic Regimens & Monitor Responses: Skillfully apply basic nursing procedures, administer medications, IVs, and blood products according to established policies, and continuously monitor patient physiological parameters, recognizing and responding to acute changes and emergencies with appropriate interventions and notifications.
• Ensure Quality and Safe Health Care Practices: Adhere to patient confidentiality, communicate cordially with patients and families, promote a physically safe environment including restraint use and universal precautions, and participate in departmental quality monitoring and improvement activities.
• Collaborate and Lead Within the Team: Provide direction and leadership to other staff members by clearly communicating expectations, assisting with patient care, using standardized communication tools like SBAR and the 4 Ps for shift hand-offs, and actively contributing to a healthy and respectful work environment.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Graduate of an approved professional (RN) nursing program.
• Experience: Approximately three (3) to nine (9) months on-the-job experience is required to effectively apply knowledge of unit and departmental policies, procedures, and standards for patient care and professional nursing practice.
• Skills: Licensed Registered Nurse credentialed from the Michigan Board of Nursing within 2 months of hire; Certified BLS Provider credentialed from the American Heart Association within 3 months of hire; strong interpersonal skills for effective communication with patients, families, and staff; ability to concentrate and pay close attention to detail during stressful situations; and the physical ability to walk or stand continuously and frequently lift and position patients.