Registered Nurse Women's and Children's Float Pool

The Registered Nurse (RN) is a professional caregiver responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care. This role involves using the nursing process to provide care that is evidence-based, compassionate, and collaborative. RNs in this position deliver care to women and pediatric patients across multiple units, helping ensure seamless patient support and team coordination.

About the Women's and Children's Float Pool

As a float RN, you'll expand your clinical expertise while adapting to different care environments such as, Maternity, Pediatrics and NICU and building relationships across multidisciplinary teams. This flexible role offers variety and continuous learning while supporting our mission of providing family-centered, high-quality care to women and children.

About Us

St. Vincent Regional Hospital, located in Billings, Montana, has been delivering compassionate, high-quality care to the people of Montana and Northern Wyoming for over 125 years. Along with 30 regional clinics, we provide a range of progressive specialty services, including St. Vincent Children's Hospital, a unique "hospital within a hospital" designed specifically for children. St. Vincent is proud to be recognized as one of the top hospitals in the region, consistently earning awards for exceptional patient care and is a Level 1 Trauma care site.

Hospital Awards:

• Magnet Recognition Program®:
• The nation's highest recognition for nursing excellence.
• Baby-Friendly Hospital
• By the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
• Healthgrades Hospital Quality & Specialty Clinical Quality Awards
• Outstanding Patient Experience Award (2024, 2023)
• Newsweek's America's Best-In-State Hospitals (2025)
• #5 hospital in Montana.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide safe, effective, and developmentally appropriate care to pediatric and maternal patients
• Collaborate with patients, families, and interdisciplinary team members to direct and coordinate care
• Develop individualized care plans based on assessment data and clinical judgment
• Provide or delegate patient care in accordance with care plans, guidelines, and licensure
• Prepare patients for discharge needs, including education, referrals, and follow-up care
• Evaluate patient responses and adapt interventions accordingly
• Maintain compliance with legal and ethical standards and document care accurately

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of one (1) year nursing experience in maternal or pediatric care, required
• Graduate of an accredited nursing program; BSN preferred
• Current RN license in the state of Montana, or compact license, required
• Current BLS certification through the American Heart Association, required
• Additional certifications based on unit (e. g. , NRP, PALS) required or must be obtained upon hire
• Excellent adaptability and communication skills to transition across units

Position Details

• Shift: Part-Time
• Scheduled Weekly Hours: 24
• Locations: Various Women and Children's units
• Facility: St. Vincent Hospital, Billings, Montana

Physical Requirements:

Minimum Qualifications

• Current license to practice as a Registered Nurse in state of practice. Valid compact licenses must be transferred to the state of practice within 60 days of the start of employment.
• RNs with less than 12 months of experience must obtain their Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) within four (4) years of their hire date.
• Basic Life Support Certification (BLS) for healthcare providers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing (BSN). Education must be obtained from an accredited institution. Degree will be verified.

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is required as of the job description's last update on 4/27/2025. Employees hired or promoted prior to this date will be held to the minimum requirements that were in place at the time of their promotion or hire.

Physical Requirements

• Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.
• Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
• Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
• Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.
• Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to navigate crowded and busy rooms (full of equipment, power cords on the floor, etc. )
• May be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
• For roles requiring driving: Expected to drive a vehicle which requires sitting, seeing and reading signs, traffic signals, and other vehicles.

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