Med Surg RN (Nights) Part-time

About the role

This position involves assessing and reassessing patients, communicating findings and recommendations to allied healthcare members, providing individualized and continuous care planning, delegating care responsibilities, and providing holistic, patient-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Conducts an individualized patient assessment, prioritizing data collection based on patient’s immediate condition or needs within specified timeframe.
• Develops and implements a plan of care that is individualized for the patient, collaborating with other members of the healthcare team.
• Performs therapeutic nursing interventions as established by the individualized plan of care for the patient and his/her family.
• Provides individualized patient/family education customized to the patient and his/her family.
• Documents patient assessment findings, physical/psychosocial responses to nursing intervention, and progress towards problem resolution.
• Initiates emergency resuscitative measures per adult resuscitation protocols.
• Reports patient condition to appropriate personnel during each shift.

Requirements

• Knowledge and technical skill necessary for providing competent, comprehensive and age-specific patient care.
• Leadership abilities including ability to give and follow instructions accurately and the ability to delegate and supervise non-licensed personnel.
• Serves as a professional role model for others.
• Demonstrates computer and keyboarding skills necessary to provide a complete and accurate electronic medical record.
• Prepares patient/families for discharge by providing information/education on admission, throughout the hospital stay, and reviewing at discharge.

Qualifications

• Mandatory continuing education: Annual department specific and hospital wide mandates (Customer Service, Fire and Safety, Corporate Compliance, Infection Control, etc.), and education required by regulatory, accreditation bodies, scope of practice, and/or Hancock Regional Hospital.

Skills

• Registered Nurse (RN)

Benefits

N/A

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Shifts on this unit are 12 hours.