Experienced Registered Nurse, Med/Surg/Oncology, Per Diem

About the role

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. The MICU/ SICU is a combined medical/ surgical/ oncology intensive care unit caring for patients requiring critical care intervention and monitoring. The team cares for patients with a wide variety of infectious disease, GI, cardiac, oncology complications and respiratory conditions who require ventilator support and invasive pressure monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Provides direct care to patients and makes necessary nursing judgments.
• Responsible for systematically assessing the health care needs of individuals or groups and for the formulation of a care plan, its implementation and evaluation.
• Demonstrates the ability for decision making by integrating theoretical knowledge with practical experience in caring for patients.
• Coordinates the care of patients and directs assistive personnel in order to provide safe, effective, efficient, equitable and timely, patient-centered care.
• Demonstrates awareness of environmental forces on health care of patients and their families.
• Demonstrates the ability to identify resources necessary to implement the plan of care.
• Works in a collegial and collaborative relationship with other health professionals to determine healthcare needs of patients and families.
• Develops relationships with patients and families that maintain and communicate trust and respect.
• Communicates effectively in the exchange of information.
• Demonstrate the ability to act as a patient advocate.
• Maintains annual mandatory education requirements, which include emergency skills and unit based competencies.
• Identifies needs for continued growth and development in conjunction with the unit based educator or clinical nurse specialist.
• Participates in activities that contribute to professional development of self; may participate in quality improvement activities.
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