Acute Care RN - Peds/Birthplace/NICU/PICU - All Shifts

About the role

Assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and provides care to these patients through the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the environment/instrumentation, and other health care team members.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct patient care as defined within the scope of the state’s nurse practice act.
• Performs assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner, focusing on physiological and cognitive status.
• Administers prescribed medications and treatments in accordance with nursing standards.
• Formulates a prioritized and goal directed plan of care, which is based on patient’s presenting problems and projected outcomes.
• Implements care in a knowledgeable, skillful, consistent manner, while promoting the continuum of care.
• Functions to establish priorities of patient care based on essential patient needs and available unit resources of time, personnel, equipment and supplies.
• Prepares equipment and aids provider during treatment, examination and testing of patients.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the health care process (self, systems, environment, and instrumentation) in meeting outcomes.
• Observes, records, and reports patient’s condition and reaction to drugs and treatments to provider.
• Documents in patient and department records in a timely, accurate and concise manner according to department standards.
• Maintains and reviews patient records, charts, and other pertinent information.
• Compiles tests and examination results.
• Evaluates the patient’s progress towards achieving outcomes.
• Performs efficiently in emergency patient situations following established standards of care.
• P Practices effective problem identification and resolution as a method of sound decision making.
• Greets patients and prepares them for provider examination.
• Collects patient history information.
• Instructs patients in collection of samples and tests.
• Triages and refers incoming telephone calls.
• Instructs patient and family regarding medications and treatment instructions.
• Participates in system wide/department patient care quality improvement activities as well as standards development.
• Participates actively in clinical education activities, including orientation of new employees and teaching student nurses.
• Participates in nursing research activities.
• Participates in development and attainment of system wide/department hospital goals.
• Triages and refers incoming telephone calls.
• Instructs patient and family regarding medications and treatment instructions.
• Delegates tasks and duties in the direction and coordination of health care team members, patient care and department activities in accordance with the Kansas State Nurse Practice Act.
• Adheres to staffing and scheduling practices.
• Setseks validation of knowledge base, skill level and decision making as necessary and assertively seeks guidance in areas of question.

  Requirements

  • Registered Nurse - KSBN
  • A multistate license with the ability to practice within the State of Kansas is also accepted.
  • Must have within 90 days of hire. RQI, CPR or ACLS certifications may be required in lieu of or in addition to BLS depending on department.

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Science: Nursing (BSN)

  Skills

  • Demonstrates awareness and sensitivity to rights of patient/significant other, as identified within the institution.
  • Demonstrates awareness and application of safety issues as identified within the institution.
  • Demonstrates awareness of legal issues in all aspects of patient care and departmental functioning.
  • Strives to manage situations in a manner, which minimizes risk to the patient and the institution.
  • Demonstrates competency in selected psychomotor skills.
  • Communicates effectively using verbal, non-verbal and written methods.
  • Applies concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

  Benefits

  N/A

  Pay

  N/A

  Schedule

  N/A