PRN Pre/Post RN

About The Position

The Registered Nurse is assigned clinical and/or managerial responsibilities based on educational preparation, licensing laws and regulations, competency and patient needs. "Patient needs" based assignments are made in accordance with the complexity and dynamics of the condition of each patient, age of patient, cultural, spiritual and religious practices, emotional needs/barriers, desire and motivation, physical and/or cognitive limitations, language barriers and the complexity of the assessment required by the patient. This includes the type of technology employed in providing care and factors that must be considered to make appropriate decisions regarding the provision of care.

Overview Of Responsibilities

• Taking patient vitals
• Performing injection/immunization procedures
• Charting and documentation
• Exam room preparation
• Infectious waste handling
• Knowledge of sterile techniques
• Triage incoming telephone calls
• Routine lab procedures and collection
• Oral communication skills needed to develop patient rapport, discuss orders with patients and patient's family, pharmacies, message taking, and communicate effectively with patients regarding the course of their care
• Written communication skills necessary for charting and documentation; must be able to write legibly and demonstrate spelling competency
• Handling patient confidentiality
• Working with peers in a team situation
• Demonstrated knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served
• Functional and technical understanding of applicable scheduling and billing software, intranet and internet usage, e-mail usage and web-based applications
• Connecting on a human level, at a minimum making eye contact with and greeting patients, families, visitors, and staff
• Courteous interactions, including correct voice inflection and positive body language
• Demonstrating empathy by acknowledging and validating patient's situation or experience ("It must be hard to…" "It must be difficult to…")
• Appropriately using therapeutic touch to calm and comfort
• Willingness to work hard; offers to help others when own work completed
• Sensitivity to needs and workload of entire unit/department
• Willingness to take ownership; uses "I" or "we" rather than "they" or "them"; blame is not directed at others
• Demonstrating compassion by ability to "walk in someone's shoes" – get to their level, to understand where they are and what they're feeling, and help them get to where they want to be
• Assuming accountability for professional growth
• Ability to use imagination, because if you can't "imagine", you can't "connect", and if you can't "connect", you can't display compassion
• Commitment to Patient Satisfaction and Patient Safety
• Assuring that day-to-day patient care proceeds in an efficient, safe manner
• Routinely meeting the culture of every patient every time regarding the patient experience by utilizing AIDET & KSBs

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and can be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities that management deems necessary.

Education & Experience

Minimum education required: Associates, Bachelor's, or Masters Degree in Nursing

Licensure & Certification

Minimum licensure required: Licensure in State of Indiana as a Registered Nurse