Gastroenterology Per Diem LPN or RN

Responsibilities

• Establishes priorities in organizing daily activities and maintains efficient patient flow.
• Traits patient phone calls following established guidelines and prescribed format for identifying patient's health problems or concerns, and providing quality patient care.
• Administers prescribed medications.
• Provides education to patients in response to identified patient needs.
• Documents health information, interventions, and outcomes into the patient electronic medical record.
• Delegates patient care activities using the five rights: right task, person, direction, circumstance, and supervision (ensuring the task has been completed satisfactorily and documentation is complete) and providing feedback to delegatee and manager.
• Applies principles of purposeful, organized thinking based on the nursing process to make sound clinical judgment and decisions.
• Completes practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to effectively and positively interact with a multi-disciplinary staff, patients, and others.

Qualifications

• Education: Minimum requirements: Associate Degree or Diploma in Nursing from an accredited School of Nursing.
• Certification, Registration & Licensure: Licensure required: New Hampshire Board of Nursing license; Certification required: Current American Heart Association Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers certification or Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers.

Skills

• Knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span.
• Ability to assess clinical data reflective of the patient's health status.
• Ability to interpret information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to his/her age specific needs.
• Ability to engage in caring relationships with patients, families, and caregivers.
• Ability to work collaboratively with the health care team.
• Ability to use sound judgments while performing nursing interventions.
• Ability to complete practice specific clinical skill competencies on an annual basis.

Benefits

• Concord Hospital is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
• The hospital follows federal law to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

Pay

• Details about pay are not specified in the job posting.

Schedule

• Details about the schedule are not specified in the job posting.