Clinical Nurse (RN)

About the Role

Maine Medical Center Nursing Req #: 92318

This is a bargaining unit position.

5 Positions available.

This is a Clinical Nurse I vacancy open to candidates with 0 – 1 year of RN work experience.

This is a full time night shift opportunity, consisting of 3, 12 hour shifts per week.

Unit Description: Bean 5 (IMC/Respiratory Telemetry Unit)

Bean 5 is a high-paced 43 bed medical respiratory unit with an embedded 8 bed Intermediate Care Unit (IMC).

Unique to Bean 5, the 8 bed IMC includes our Assisted Ventilator Unit (AVU).

The patient population on Bean 5 is vast and includes specialties of:

• Acute on chronic states
• Respiratory failure
• Complex vascular conditions
• General surgical conditions
• Neuroscience conditions
• Sepsis
• Multisystem organ failure

Role Scope

RNs providing care in the Bean 5 IMC/AVU demonstrate astute assessment and critical thinking skills, as patients in IMC may have multi-system issues that require continuous monitoring, medication drips, frequent interventions, and higher-level respiratory support.

Within our Assisted Ventilation Unit (AVU), patients may be requiring acute and/or chronic ventilator support. With a focus on ventilator weaning, nursing interventions require frequent assessments and collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.

RNs working on Bean 5 have the opportunity to work in a unique clinical setting that allows for experience in medical telemetry, IMC, and AVU.

Team Culture

Bean 5's clinical nursing team includes bright, innovative professionals looking to hold themselves and others to the highest nursing and care standards. Our nurses, patient care technicians, and CNAs exemplify analytic ability to identify patient needs, risks, and interventions. We provide excellent customer service to patients and families at their current health states and learning abilities. As a team, we continually demonstrate exceptional communication abilities, always effectively interacting and problem-solving with other healthcare professionals, hospital administration, patients, and families.

Position Summary

The Clinical Nurse supports Maine Medical Center's mission, vision, and values. The Clinical Nurse is responsible for assessment, diagnosis, outcome identification, planning, implementation, documentation, and evaluation of the effects of nursing care. Care delivery and coordination of patient and family care begins with the initial contact with the health care system and may continue across the continuum. Services may be provided on an inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory, and/or community basis.

Key Responsibilities

• Assessment
• Diagnosis
• Outcome identification
• Planning
• Implementation
• Documentation
• Evaluation of the effects of nursing care

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Education: Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. A Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing is preferred.
• License/Certifications: Current license to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in the State of Maine.
• Experience:
• As this is an entry-level position, experience as an RN is not required.
• Respiratory or IMC experience preferred.
• Ventilator experience strongly preferred.
• Basic knowledge of the research base, theory, practices, principles, and processes of professional nursing.
• Interpersonal and communication skills to interact effectively with patients, families, and health care team members.
• Analytical ability sufficient to identify changes in patients' conditions and to initiate appropriate action.

Additional Information

• All new graduate RNs (less than 6 months of RN experience) hired into regular status positions are automatically enrolled in our 12-month Nurse Residency Program.
• For RNs with less than 1 year of RN experience transferring from another organization, consideration for exceptions to some or all Nurse Residency Program requirements may be made on an individual basis.
• In accordance with the Clinical Nursing Advancement Program, a Clinical Nurse I who meets or exceeds all criteria at the 12-month performance evaluation date, will be appointed to the Clinical Nurse II position.
• Pay rate: $38.27 per hour.
• In addition to base pay, MaineHealth offers comprehensive benefits, recognition programs, career growth opportunities, and, where applicable, shift differentials or other incentives.
• For questions, contact michelle.lefebvre@mainehealth.org.