Advocate Health Care

Resource Registered Nurse (RN) Inpatient

Advocate Health Care$79K — $118K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of RN experience in ICU, ED, or Med-Surg settings preferred.
  • Active multistate or single-state RN license required.
  • Basic Life Support (BLS) certification mandatory.
  • Graduate of an approved nursing education program with evidence-based practice knowledge.
  • Strong clinical judgment and critical thinking skills essential.

Responsibilities

  • Engage in unit councils to improve care processes.
  • Utilize nursing process to assess and evaluate patient care.
  • Monitor patient conditions and adjust care plans as necessary.
  • Promote a culture of safety in the workplace.
  • Administer medications and treatments according to protocols.
  • Facilitate effective team communication and conflict resolution.
  • Adhere to ethical nursing practices and maintain accurate documentation.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay with flexible scheduling options.
  • Opportunity to diversify experience across multiple facilities.
  • Professional development through advanced skill opportunities.
  • Impact patient care directly in high-need areas.
Full Job Description

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Available Opportunities:

  • Full-time Night Shift
  • Specialties include: ICU, Emergency Department (ED), and Med-Surg

Facility Coverage Requirement:
The Resource Registered Nurse (RN) for Navicent’s Resource Team is required to float across multiple facilities within the health system. Assigned locations include:

  • Atrium Health Navicent Medical Center
    777 Hemlock St., Macon, GA 31201

  • Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin
    821 N. Cobb St., Milledgeville, GA 31061

  • Atrium Health Navicent Peach
    1960 Highway 247 Connector, Byron, GA 31008

  • Atrium Health Navicent Rehabilitation Hospital
    3351 Northside Dr., Macon, GA 31210

Pay Range:

$38.20 - $57.30

About the Resource Team:

Navicent’s Resource Team is a high-performing, system-wide float pool that delivers critical staffing support across multiple facilities and service lines. As a Resource RN, you’ll bring adaptability, clinical excellence, and teamwork to dynamic care environments—helping ensure seamless, high-quality patient care wherever the need is greatest.

Why Join Our Resource Team:
  • 💰 Competitive pay with premium opportunities for flexibility
  • 🏥 Expand your experience across multiple facilities and specialties
  • 🚀 Advance your clinical skills in fast-paced, high-acuity environments
  • ❤️ Make a meaningful impact where patients and care teams need you most
Facility Coverage Requirement:

The Resource Registered Nurse (RN) for Navicent’s Resource Team is required to float across multiple facilities within the health system.

🏥 Assigned locations include:

  • Atrium Health Navicent Medical Center
    777 Hemlock St., Macon, GA 31201

  • Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin
    821 N. Cobb St., Milledgeville, GA 31061

  • Atrium Health Navicent Peach
    1960 Highway 247 Connector, Byron, GA 31008

  • Atrium Health Navicent Rehabilitation Hospital
    3351 Northside Dr., Macon, GA 3121

Available Opportunities:
  • 🌙 Full-Time | Night Shift Opportunities Available

Where You’ll Make an Impact:
  • Step into high-impact, high-acuity clinical environments and support frontline care across:

    🏥 ICU (Critical Care)

    🚨 Emergency Department (ED)

    🩺 Med-Surg

Experience:
  • 2+ years of RN experience within a relevant service line preferred

Major Responsibilities:

  • Engages in unit councils, professional governance, and quality initiatives to improve care processes and apply evidence-based practices.
  • Utilizes the nursing process to assess, plan, diagnose, implement, and evaluate nursing care, engaging patients and families through the continuum of care.
  • Monitors patient conditions, adjusts care plans, mobilizes resources, and collaborates with the care team to influence care outcomes.
  • Upholds and promotes a culture of safety.
  • Continuously evaluates patient, team, and unit outcomes, taking action as needed.
  • May administer medications, treatments, and therapies safely and according to clinical protocols and procedures.
  • Demonstrates effective communication, feedback, and conflict resolution, fostering team collaboration and appropriate delegation.
  • Pursues professional development, completes required education, and maintains certifications.
  • Adhere to the ANA Code of Ethics and practices ethical decision-making, respects interdisciplinary roles, and contributes to integrated, unbiased patient care.
  • Appropriate delegation to other Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel (i.e., nurse aides, credentialed medical assistants, etc.).
  • Maintains accurate, timely EHR documentation.
  • May be required to float to other units, departments, care areas, or facilities within the designated service area to meet patient care needs.
  • Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs, and to provide the care needed as described in the department's policies and procedures. Age-specific information is developed further in the departmental job standards

Minimum Job Requirements 

Education

Graduate of a Board of Nursing approved nursing education program. 

Certification / Registration / License 

  • Basic Life Support (BLS). Additional education, training, certifications, or experience may be required based on specialty. 
  • Active registered nurse (RN) multi-state compact and/or single-state license with privileges to practice in the state(s) where the RN is providing client nursing services 

Note: Licensed nurses practicing via telehealth/telenursing/virtual modalities are required to be licensed or hold the privilege to practice in the state(s) where the client(s) is/are located. Licensed nurses are responsible and accountable for knowing, understanding, and practicing in compliance with the laws, rules, regulations, and standards of practice of the state(s) where the client(s) is/are located. 

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities 

  • Strong clinical judgment and critical thinking. 
  • Time management, prioritization and problem-solving skills. 
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 
  • Proficiency in operating computer functions (e.g., E-mail, electronic records, digital platforms etc.) clinical, aviation, maintenance, communications, and administrative departments.  

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

  • Must be able to sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, reach above shoulders, and twist frequently throughout the workday. 
  • Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies. 
  • Must be able to: push/pull with 30 lbs. of force and perform a sliding transfer of 150 lbs. with a second person present. 
  • Must have functional speech, vision, hearing, and touch with ability to use fine hand manipulation skills for IV insertion and other procedures/functions. 
  • Maneuver foot pedals on carts or machines. 
  • Perform physical safety interventions such as patient restraint and verbal de-escalation, if needed. 
  • May be exposed to chemical and hazardous waste as well as blood and body fluids and communicable disease. Therefore, protective clothing and equipment must be worn as necessary. 
  • Must be able to respond quickly to changes in patient and/or unit conditions. 
  • Physical Abilities Testing may be required. 
  • Additional department specific physical requirements may be identified for unique responsibilities within the department by the nurse leader. 

Preferred Job Requirements 

Education

Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BSN) 

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

About Advocate Health Care

Advocate Health Care is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system providing comprehensive health care services to the people of Illinois. The organization is the largest fully integrated health care delivery system in Illinois, with more than 500 sites of care and 12 hospitals, including two of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals, the state’s largest integrated children’s network, five Level I trauma centers (the state’s highest designation in trauma care), three Level II trauma centers, one of the area’s largest home health and hospice companies and one of the region’s largest medical groups. Advocate Health Care trains more primary care physicians and residents at its four teaching hospitals than any other health system in the state. As a not-for-profit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $1.6 billion in charitable care and services to communities across Chicagoland and Central Illinois in 2019.
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1976

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