Registered Nurse- Inpatient Hospice PRN Nights

Essential Functions

• Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with other specialists as required and adjusts nursing care processes as indicated to ensure safe patient care.
• Writes or obtains initial nursing histories, assesses patients' conditions and develops individual care plans; maintains patient documentation.
• Receives and reviews preceding shift reports and floor nurse reports; makes complete rounds of all units, and notes patients' condition.
• Notifies appropriate physician regarding any unusual or unexpected events or problems requiring direct physician consultation.
• Works with other members of the interdisciplinary patient care team, implements and reinforces patient instructional needs with patient and family offering informational material and pointing out special areas of concern.
• Evaluates outcomes of patient care, consults with other specialists as needed and adjusts nursing care processes as necessary to ensure optimal patient care.
• Identifies and resolves workplace health and safety issues.

Patient Care Duties

• Provides appropriate, direct patient care utilizing appropriate aseptic techniques.
• May manage IV lines, ensure that sterile techniques are adhered to, and oversee patient movement and positioning to ensure that the patient is handled in a medically safe manner.
• May perform the administration of pharmacological vasodilator medications for the purpose of nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging; complies with examination competency as defined in the Imaging Services Practice Standards.

Behavioral Health RN

• Affords psychological needs assessment of patient and families upon referral from nursing/medical personnel, external programs, and facilities.
• Provides discharge and aftercare planning as needed for a smooth transition from urgent care, inpatient, hospitalization, partial hospital program or intensive outpatient program.
• Represents psychiatric services to referral sources, community agencies, court services, social service agencies, and others as required.

EP-RN Specialist

• Assists physicians with procedures such as pacemaker, implantable defibrillator placement, angiograms, ablations, and other electrophysiology-based procedures; inserts cardiac catheters including central arterial/venous access catheters, performs catheter manipulation services.
• Operates and maintains all electrophysiology recording systems, stimulators and ablations systems, responsible for patient specimen testing, quality control and improvement.

EP Coordinator

• Oversees EP area and coordinates with Cardiac Cath Lab lead to better evaluate staffing and schedule needs, training required, materials management, and provides recommendations for efficiencies.

Maternal / Child Float Pool

• Adheres to and supports team members in exhibiting TMCH values of integrity, community, compassion, and dedication.
• Adheres to TMCH organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values, policies and standards.
• Performs related duties as assigned.