Job Description Summary
Be the Nurse Your Team Counts On!Entity
Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)Worker Type
EmployeeWorker Sub-Type
RegularCost Center
CC001508 LAN - MedSurg 6th Floor (LMC)Pay Rate Type
HourlyPay Grade
Health-27Scheduled Weekly Hours
36Work Shift
Job Description
Are you an experienced RN who thrives on teamwork, clinical problem-solving, and keeping patient care moving? Join our Medical-Surgical team as a Resource Nurse and play a vital role in supporting frontline nurses, improving patient flow, and ensuring safe, timely, high-quality care.
As a Resource Nurse, you’ll partner with the Charge Nurse to provide hands-on clinical support where it’s needed most—from admissions, discharges, and transfers to IV access, patient assessments, break coverage, and real-time patient care needs. You’ll be a trusted clinical resource, helping the team navigate changing priorities while promoting teamwork, efficiency, and an exceptional patient experience.
Additional Job Description
Education: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing required. Bachelor of Science in nursing preferred.
Experience: Minimum of two years of recent acute care Registered Nurse experience preferred. Strong medical surgical clinical experience, prioritization, IV skills, patient flow awareness, and ability to work independently across changing priorities are strongly preferred. Charge Nurse, Resource Nurse, preceptor, or similar clinical leadership experience is preferred.
Required License & Certification: Current Registered Nurse license in South Carolina or current multistate compact RN license. Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support with American Heart Association
Why This Role?
Make a meaningful impact every shift by empowering your nursing colleagues, supporting patient flow, and helping deliver outstanding care. If you’re a skilled, adaptable RN who loves being the go-to person when the team needs an extra hand, we’d love to have 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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At the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), we offer nurses a variety of career paths. As a new RN grad or experienced nurse, you can enjoy a supportive team environment, collaborate across disciplines, and help us deliver award-winning patient care to our communities.
Nurses are essential to everything we do, and we value your input. Participate in nurse-driven research and help drive practice improvement through our shared governance councils.
Our patients and families are the central focus of our care model. You help us build the foundation of patient care in your relationships with your patients, their families, and your colleagues.
We want to help you become the patient advocate and leader you're meant to be. MUSC offers professional and personal development opportunities at every stage of your nursing career.
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Founded in 1824 in Charleston, MUSC is the state’s only comprehensive academic health system, with a mission to preserve and optimize human life in South Carolina through education, research and patient care. Each year, MUSC educates over 3,100 students in six colleges and trains 950+ residents and fellows across its health system. MUSC leads the state in federal and National Institutes of Health and research funding.
As the health care system of the Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC Health is dedicated to delivering the highest-quality and safest patient care while educating and training generations of outstanding health care providers and leaders to serve the people of South Carolina and beyond. In 2024, for the 10th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report named MUSC Health University Medical Center in Charleston the No. 1 hospital in South Carolina. To learn more about clinical patient services, visit muschealth.org.
MUSC has a total enterprise annual operating budget of $7.1 billion. The 31,000 MUSC members include world-class faculty, physicians, specialty providers, scientists, contract employees, affiliates and care team members who deliver groundbreaking education, research, and patient care.