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Job Description

As a Float Pool RN, you’ll have the opportunity to work across a variety of high-impact units, including:

• 🚨 Emergency Room
• 🏥 Medical-Surgical
• ❤️ Telemetry
• 🧠 Neurology Progressive Care

Schedule: 36 hours per week - 12-hour shifts

Why Float Pool?

No two shifts are exactly alike! The Float Pool offers an exciting opportunity to expand your clinical skills, collaborate with diverse teams, and care for patients across multiple specialties and levels of acuity.

Whether you're responding to an emergency, caring for a medical-surgical patient, monitoring complex telemetry patients, or supporting patients requiring neurological progressive care, your expertise will make an impact wherever you go.

What You'll Do

Under general supervision, the Registered Nurse provides safe, compassionate, patient- and family-centered care using the nursing process:

Assessment → Planning → Implementation → Evaluation

In this role, you will:

• Provide comprehensive nursing care that addresses the physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural, religious, and environmental needs of patients and families.
• Perform assessments, develop nursing diagnoses, identify expected outcomes, plan and implement interventions, coordinate care, provide health education and promotion, and evaluate patient outcomes.
• Deliver age- and developmentally appropriate care consistent with nursing standards, evidence-based practice, and MUSC policies.
• Direct and lead assigned team members while collaborating effectively with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
• Identify clinical priorities and take initiative to improve patient outcomes.
• Coordinate the effective and efficient delivery of patient care through the application of care management principles.
• Maintain a safe, therapeutic, and healing environment by protecting patient privacy and demonstrating responsive, respectful, accepting, and professional behavior.
• Demonstrate strong clinical judgment, critical thinking, autonomy, and accountability in daily practice.
• Actively participate in the professional practice model, including shared governance, peer review, professional development, and leadership initiatives.
• Promote a healthy work environment through effective communication, teamwork, collaboration, and respect.
• Pursue ongoing professional growth and clinical excellence.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for an RN who is flexible, clinically strong, team-oriented, and ready for a challenge. If you enjoy learning new things, working with different teams, and bringing confidence and compassion to every patient encounter, the Float Pool could be the perfect fit for you.

Additional Job Description

Education

• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.

License & Certifications

• Current South Carolina or compact-state Registered Nurse (RN) license required.
• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification through the American Heart Association (AHA) required.

Ready to Make Your Next Move?

Bring your skills. Expand your experience. Make an impact across MUSC.

Join the Float Pool team and become a vital part of patient care at MUSC Lancaster Medical Center and MUSC Chester Medical Center. If you're an RN who thrives on flexibility, variety, teamwork, and clinical excellence, we want you on our team!

If you like working with energetic enthusiastic individuals, you will enjoy your career with us!

The Medical University of South Carolina is an Equal Opportunity Employer. MUSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or belief, age, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by state laws and/or federal regulations. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment based upon applicable qualifications, merit and business need.

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