Our Commitment to You:
Advocate Health Care, part of Advocate Health, offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:
Compensation
- Base compensation within the position’s pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
- Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate’s job
- Incentive pay for select positions
- Opportunity for annual increases based on performance
Benefits and more
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Programs
Schedule Details/Additional Information:
- Full time
- Nights, 7p-7a
- Weekend and Holiday requirements
What You Will Do
- Participates, observes and/or acts as a resource to staff for patient related clinical problems. Participates, observes and /or acts as a resource in clinical situations such as medical alerts: arrest, rapid response, admissions, transfers, and clinical monitoring of unstable patients.
- Participates, observes and/or acts as a resource to staff for patient related service problems. Collaborates with Providers to ensure optimal patient care and effective utilization of resources. Provides support for staff to effectively problem solve patient service issues and unit issues. Acts as a patient advocate by responding and intervening in patient and visitor concerns, performing service recovery, as needed.
- Initiates investigation of patient safety events and medication errors, ensures proper documentation and a corrective action plan is in place.
- Participates, observes and acts as a resource for staff regarding patient related systems problems. Acts as a liaison for staff to ensure processes are in place for patients to receive an optimal level of patient care. Collaborates with nurse managers, department managers, medical staff and hospital administration to facilitate the provision of quality care.
- Identify trends in system problems and notifies the unit and/or department manager of the issue.
- Assists with patient admission, transfer and discharge to facilitate timely process throughout the system. Provides direction, in collaboration with the patient command center on patient transfers and/or reassigns staff to accommodate admissions, if need is identified. Completes appropriate database documentation.
- Responds to internal and external public relations issues, maintaining guest relations rapport with staff, public and media, which includes alerting public relations and site administrators of potential patient/hospital situations, directing media to public relations as appropriate and fielding outside telephone inquiries, complaints and/or problems with proper referral.
- Ensures compliance with standards and requirements of regulatory agencies. Acts as the incident commander, in the absence of the AOC or Administrative Leader.
- Serves as individual to intervene during the absence of the Safety Officer and/or Patient Safety Officer whenever conditions immediately threaten life or health or threaten damage to equipment or buildings.
What We Are Looking For
- Licensure: Nurse, Registered (RN)
- Education/Experience Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing.
- Typically requires 3 years of experience in clinical nursing with demonstrated clinical expertise.
About Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care is the largest health system in Illinois and a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. One of the state’s largest private employers, the system serves patients across 11 hospital locations, including two children’s campuses, and more than 250 sites of care. Advocate Health Care, in addition to Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin and Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama, is now a part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides nearly $5 billion in annual community benefits.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $41.10 - $61.65 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Are you able to work 7p-7a, including weekends and holidays as required?
Experience:
- nursing leadership (charge, supervisor, manager): 1 year (Required)
Work Location: In person
