Registered Nurse - Endoscopy - PT Days 7a-5:30p Monday - Friday; Night/Weekend/Holiday On-call Rotation

About the role

This position provides a full range of delegated, interdependent, and independent nursing services to patients within the framework of the Seven Dimensions of Patient Care and Benner's Domains of Nursing Practice.

Department: Endoscopy

Hospital: Henry Ford Health Genesys

Location: Grand Blanc, Michigan

Responsibilities

• Help to alleviate patient fears and anxiety through skillful application of professional and interpersonal communication.
• Utilize a variety of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic approaches to ensure patient comfort and relief of pain.
• Collaborate with patient/family, hospital staff, and community agencies to develop discharge plans that prepare patients for continued care needs.
• Complete admission assessment and shift assessment as required.
• Complete assessment for Risk Factors; including fall, skin breakdown, VTE, and aspiration. Initiate appropriate initiatives as indicated.
• Complete Medication Reconciliation upon admission and change in level of care.
• Establish, direct, coordinate and document plan of nursing care in conjunction with patient/family.
• Maintain peripheral IV therapy.
• Obtains blood specimens if no phlebotomist assigned to area.
• Performs blood capillary glucose monitoring.
• Administers the following according to established policies and procedures: Medications, IVs, Blood products.
• Prepare patients for surgery or other invasive procedures according to established guidelines.
• Perform or assist with procedures according to established standards of care and nursing practice.
• Utilize equipment based on manufacturers instructions and established nursing procedure. Correctly operates and trouble shoots IV pumps, PCA pumps, epidural pumps, feeding pumps, patient beds, as applicable.
• Monitor patient responses to interventions and progress toward outcomes.
• Monitor patient physiologic parameters including vital signs, lab work, I&O, blood glucose; recognizes and reports meaningful changes and intervenes appropriately.
• Recognize acute changes in respiratory status, neurologic status, and cardiac status and respond appropriately.
• Communicate with other professionals/departments and physician staff to ensure appropriate progress of patients through the system.
• Monitor individual patient length of stay (LOS); notifies case manager and nurse manager of potential LOS/discharge issues.
• Identify ethical issues related to patient care (including issues related to advanced directives) and initiates steps for resolution.
• Communicate with patients and families cordially, diplomatically and respectfully.
• Act to resolve customer concerns/complaints immediately; reports complaints that cannot be immediately resolved to Patient Care Director, Clinical Manager, or House Supervisor.
• Promote a physically safe environment for the patient including use and documentation of restraints according to policy.
• Utilize universal precautions for all patients.
• Make cost effective use of supplies and resources.
• Assist in evaluating new products, procedures, nursing practices.
• Support organizational, nursing department, and unit strategic goals and activities; participates in department and unit based council/staff activities meetings.
• Support and actively participates in Nursing Department and unit specific quality monitoring and quality improvement activities.
• Participate in teaching/mentoring of student nurses and orientates.
• Evaluate own performance utilizing input from peers, co-workers, managers, physicians, customers, and develops a plan for continual improvement.

Qualifications

• Licensed Registered Nurse (RN)
• Current BLS certification
• Experience in Endoscopy preferred
• Orientation Self-Evaluation: (C) Competent (NT) Needs Training or Review

Skills

• Independent professional judgment
• Strong analytical skills
• Nursing process expertise
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Pharmacology and non-pharmacologic approaches to patient care
• Equipment operation and troubleshooting
• Emergency response and management
• Documentation and reporting

Benefits

• Sign On Bonus: $5,000
• 5% Market Pay Differential
• Increased Night Shift Premium: 10%
• $2 Weekend Differential

Pay

• Commensurate with experience

Schedule

PT Days - 7a-5:30p Monday - Friday; Night/Weekend/Holiday On-call Rotation