The Unit
Healthcare
Spring2026NewGradRNMercy5North
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“Spring 2026 New Grad RN Mercy 5 North at The Unit. Skills: Professional nursing care, Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Patient care coordination, Health promotion, Safe environment, Delegation, Cultural diversity and inclusion, Effective communication, Collaboration, Leadership, Evidence-based practice, Quality nursing practice, Ethical practice, Environmental safety, Shared governance. Provide professional nursing care through skillful assessment, diagnosis, outcomes”
What You'll Achieve.
Identify expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.; Develop a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected, measurable outcomes.; Evaluate progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.; Positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
Industry & Context.
Critical thinking
Work requires walking, standing, sitting, lifting, reaching, stooping, bending, pushing, and pulling., Must be able to lift and support the weight of 35 pounds in handling patients, medical equipment, and supplies., Intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, and touch., Finger dexterity., Physical Abilities Testing required.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing, Current Basic Life Support required per policy guidelines, Current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner in the state in which you work and reside if declaring a National License Compact (NLC) state as your primary state of residency, meet the licensure requirements in your home or for Non-National License Compact states, current RN license or temporary license as a Registered Nurse Petitioner required in the state where the RN works.
Nice to Have
BSN preferred
What You'll Do.
Provide professional nursing care through skillful assessment
outcomes identification
and evaluation in accordance with facility or department policies procedures
and/or protocols under the supervision of the nursing leader.
Assist in maintaining a safe work environment and performs all related job responsibilities in a safe manner.
Maintain clinical and professional competency as appropriate to the population of patients served.
Collect data pertinent to the healthcare consumer's health or the situation.
Analyze the assessment data to determine actual or potential diagnoses
Identify expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
Develop a plan that prescribes strategies to attain expected
Implement the identified plan
coordinates care delivery
and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
Delegate elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers in accordance with any applicable legal or policy parameters or principles.
Evaluate progress toward attainment of goals and outcomes.
Practice in a manner that is congruent with cultural diversity and inclusion principles.
Communicate effectively in all areas of practice.
Collaborate with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
Lead within the professional practice setting and the profession.
Integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
Contribute to quality nursing practice.
Evaluate one's own and others nursing practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines
rules and regulations.
Utilize appropriate resources to plan
and sustain evidence-based nursing services that are safe
and fiscally responsible.
Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner.
Promote shared governance
or facility decision making activities
developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborates with healthcare consumer and other key stakeholders in the conduct of nursing practice.
Communication Scope
Communicates effectively in all areas of practice; Must speak English in good, understandable terms
Full Job Description
**Department:** 34404 Carolinas Medical Center: Mercy - Nursing: 5N Surgical Telemetry **Status:** Full time **Benefits Eligible:** Yes **Hou****rs Per Week:** 36 **Schedule Details/Additional Information:** Varied **Pay Range** $38.20 - $57.30 This position is Sign On Bonus eligible. **_About the Unit:_** 5 North is a 26-bed General Surgery specialty unit. We are a Med-Surg Unit with heavy surgical volume. We specialize in: * Elective bariatricweigh loss surgery - these are typically our happiest and easiest patients. They go to the OR and are expected to be up and ambulating on post op Day 0. * Generalsurgery - appendectomies, cholecystectomies, small bowel obstruction, etc. * Foot and ankle ortho - total ankle replacements and infected foot wounds, BKA's etc. * Urology surgery. A Nurse on our Unit will gain experience in drains of all kinds, wound vacs, central lines, NGT, DHT, and all surgical things! Atrium Health Mercy, a 196-bed facility of Carolinas Medical Center, is one of two Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) locations and is 1.3 miles from CMC. As a Planetree Designated facility, we focus on the following: * Connect values, strategies, and action * Implement practices that promote partnership * Use evidence to drive improvement * Create organizational structures that promote engagement For more than 100 years, Atrium Health Mercy has treated approximately 80-110 ED and 130-212 in-patients daily with a special combination of human compassion and leading-edge expertise. Atrium Health Mercy is a full-service community hospital, specializing in the care of seniors and in complex foot and ankle surgery, hip and knee surgery, bariatric surgery, and women's pelvic health. Atrium Health Mercy is Magnet designated in Nursing Excellence and is also a Planetree designated patient-centered hospital. The Planetree model is committed to enhancing health care from the patient's perspective; empowers patients and families by providing information and education, cultivates
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