Registered Nurse - Elective Surgery
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About the Department
Join our dedicated team at Henry Ford Health's Moross Road campus, serving Detroit's east side and the Grosse Pointes. Our hospital is a community anchor with deep neighborhood roots, offering easy access to lakefront parks, historic architecture, and a convenient commute along the Detroit River corridor. Be part of a team that provides compassionate care in a vibrant, historic area, making a meaningful impact on the health and well-being of our diverse community.
Our unit is a fast-paced, high-acuity post-surgical environment dedicated to delivering exceptional, patient-centered care. We specialize in providing care for a diverse range of post-surgical patient procedures, including general surgery, urological, vascular, colorectal, and gynecological surgeries. In addition, we are proud to support specialized bariatric surgical procedures and manage complex therapies such as epidurals, tracheostomies, continuous bladder irrigation (CBI), chest tubes, and patient-controlled analgesia (PCA's), while also serving as a surgical trauma overflow unit.
As a closed unit, we foster a strong sense of teamwork, consistency, and collaboration among our staff, creating a supportive and cohesive work environment. Our scheduling model includes every third weekend, promoting a balanced and predictable work-life schedule. We are proud of our high nurse retention rate, reflecting a positive workplace culture where staff feel valued and supported.
Our team is composed of dynamic, highly skilled nurses who thrive in a collaborative and supportive atmosphere. We are committed to excellence in clinical practice and continuous learning, which is reflected in our consistently strong patient satisfaction scores and the quality of care we deliver. What sets our unit apart is our holistic approach. We care for the whole person, addressing not only physical recovery but also emotional and spiritual well-being. Our nurses build meaningful connections with patients and families, fostering trust, compassion, and healing in every interaction.
If you are looking for a challenging yet rewarding environment where your skills will be valued and your growth supported, our unit offers the opportunity to be part of a passionate team making a real difference every day.
What You Will Do
- Provide leadership in coordinating and delivering compassionate patient care. Utilize the nursing process to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care. Delegate, supervise, and document care and teaching for patients and families. Communicate pertinent patient/family information to the healthcare team. Participate in finding and implementing solutions for variances from patient goals.
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
- Current licensure by the Michigan State Board of Nursing.
- Health care provider certification (BLS).
Preferred Qualifications
- BSN preferred.
- Henry Ford Health partners with millions of people on their health journey, across Michigan and around the world. We offer a full continuum of services from primary and preventative care to complex and specialty care, health insurance, a full suite of home health offerings, virtual care, pharmacy, eye care and other health care retail. With former Ascension southeast Michigan and Flint region locations now part of our team, Henry Ford's care is available in 13 hospitals and hundreds of ambulatory care locations. Based in Detroit, Henry Ford is one of the nation's most respected academic medical centers and is leading the Future of Health: Detroit, a $3 billion investment anchored by a reimagined Henry Ford academic healthcare campus.
Qualifications
- What You Will Need
- Graduation from an accredited school of nursing. Current licensure by the Michigan State Board of Nursing. Health care provider certification (BLS).
- Preferred Qualifications
- BSN preferred.
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