CCU RN Fellowship/Residency (2026-0725)

CCU RN Fellowship/Residency

Valley Medical Center & Clinics

About the Role

This position description is a guide to the critical duties and essential functions of the job, not an all-inclusive list.

• TITLE: Registered Nurse
• JOB OVERVIEW: The staff RN is a licensed professional who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame. This individual provides safe, quality care to these patients utilizing the nursing process.
• DEPARTMENT: Any patient care area.
• WORK HOURS: Assigned tour of duty hours.
• REPORTS TO: Nurse Manager/Assistant Nurse Manager
• LOCATION: VMC Main Campus
• SHIFT: Nights
• TYPE: Full Time
• FTE: 0.9
• HOURS: Not Specified
• CITY, STATE: Renton, WA
• CATEGORY: Nursing
• SALARY RANGE: Min $48.82 - Max $89.19/hrly. DOE

Fellowship/Residency Specifics

• Fellowship: Requires 1 year experience as an RN in ED or medical-surgical setting.
• Residency: For experienced RNs in non-ED or medical surgical settings, or new graduate RNs who completed a senior practicum in a critical care setting.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Current licensure to practice as a Registered Nurse in the state of Washington.
• Successful completion of a graduate nurse residency program orientation or six months' experience as a Registered Nurse.
• Current BLS certification through American Heart Association or American Red Cross.
• Ability to access and communicate in an electronic environment, including order entry, e-mail, and computer documentation.

Qualifications

• BSN preferred.
• Demonstrates leadership skills with ability to lead and manage a team.
• Utilizes clinical judgment, clinical inquiry, innovation, and systems thinking.
• Able to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
• Adheres to the Professional Appearance Policy.
• Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills that are community-centered, compassionate, and meets the needs of diverse and vulnerable populations.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with the physical and emotional development of all age groups.
• Practices in a caring environment with excellent customer service skills.
• Functions within ANA Standards and Nurse Practice Act.
• Self-directed in advancing professional practice through continuing education and research.

Physical/Mental Demands

• Must be able to provide safe patient handling as defined in VMC's Safe Patient Handling guidelines and policies.
• Must be able to lift from floor to overhead levels and carry items up to 40 pounds.
• Requires ability to participate in team lifting.
• Must be able to operate patient lifting equipment and patient handling devices accurately and safely.
• Requires the ability to stoop, bend, reach, crouch, and squat.
• Requires standing and walking for extensive periods of time.
• Requires full body range of motion, manual and finger dexterity, and eye-hand coordination.
• Requires corrected vision, hearing to normal range, and ability to distinguish colors.

Key Responsibilities

• Assesses, guides, directs, and facilitates workflow on the unit.
• Recognizes when it is necessary for the charge nurse to assume a patient assignment and assumes that role.
• Makes staff assignments that reflect patient acuity, continuity of patient care, staff competency, and admit, transfer, and discharge activity.
• Mentors staff, float, and agency personnel regarding unit/department/hospital policies, procedures, standards, and goals.
• Integrates new staff and agency staff into the unit culture.
• Functions as a leader and role model for clinical staff.
• Acts as a clinical resource to unit staff.
• Demonstrates safe use of patient care equipment and can teach others.
• Identifies as a resource for other care teams as necessary.
• Monitors and evaluates nursing care given to each patient.
• Assesses unit/environmental safety during patient rounds and reports/corrects deficiencies.
• Maintains awareness of Joint Commission standards, state codes, and practice acts.
• Routinely monitors documentation and compliance with standards.
• Responds to patient and family concerns/complaints.
• Reports significant events to administrative supervisors/manager and activates the chain of command.
• Provides input into performance appraisal of clinical staff.
• Evaluates and provides adequate coverage for breaks.
• Maintains fiscal responsibility by monitoring and adjusting staffing during shift and determines staffing needs for the following shift.
• Accepts personal responsibility to maintain competencies for direct patient care and team leadership.
• Communicates and collaborates with bed placement and the clinical resource to ensure clinical placement is expedited.

Preferred Qualifications

• BSN for advancement to Charge Nurse Role.
• Two years' practice in clinical nursing/leadership in area of responsibility preferred.
• Minimum of one year of medical-surgical experience preferred.