Registered Nurse - Medical Surgical
About the Role
The Registered Professional Nurse is responsible and accountable for prescribing, delegating, and coordinating all nursing care as defined by The New York State Nursing Practice Act. Comprehensive Medical/Surgical nursing care focuses on helping each patient achieve their optimum health potential within the framework of the nursing process. The Medical/Surgical Registered Professional Nurse provides care to adult patients (18 years and older) with medical and surgical diagnoses.
Responsibilities
- Assessment
- Assesses patient’s physical, social, behavioral, and mental status through direct observation, interview, and medical record review.
- Utilizes observational skills to assess patient’s needs.
- Documents nursing assessment, including psychosocial, environmental factors, educational level, and needs.
- Obtains and reviews available data from other members of the health team (medical/surgical/other history, physical exam, mental status, therapist reports, and community referrals).
- Identifies medical problems resulting from mental illness and medication use.
- Communicates findings with other members of the health team (Social Worker, Case Managers, Therapist, Physician).
- Planning
- Identifies and addresses needs for admission based on acute medical/surgical diagnoses and presenting physical/psychological symptoms.
- Identifies and addresses patient level of education and learning needs.
- Makes appropriate referrals to other disciplines and documents them.
- Intervention/Implementation
- Manages clinical skills in providing nursing care, including:
- Identification of symptoms.
- Management of disease entities.
- Treatment modalities.
- Administration of medications.
- Intervenes appropriately in medical/surgical emergencies using non-violent crisis intervention.
- Utilizes infection control procedures and collaborates with the infection control department.
- Practices infection control: personal hygiene, hand washing, and dress code.
- Provides for psychosocial and educational needs of patients.
- Delivers health teaching and medication instructions.
- Ensures procedures are performed based on established standards of care.
- Demonstrates competency in performing all procedures within the scope of practice.
- Investigates and communicates unusual occurrences or patient care incidents.
- Acts as a patient advocate.
- Manages clinical skills in providing nursing care, including:
- Evaluation
- Revises the patient’s plan of care based on evaluation of interventions and expected outcomes in collaboration with the healthcare team.
Requirements
- Education: Associate degree in nursing required; bachelor’s degree in nursing preferred.
- Experience: Minimum three (3) years of medical-surgical nursing experience preferred.
Qualifications
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Current NY State RN License required.
- Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification required.
Physical Requirements
- Involves standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, and bending.
- May include some repetitive motions.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
Pay
The salary range and/or hourly rate is a good faith determination of potential base compensation at the time of this job advertisement. Factors such as site, specialty, service line, years of relevant experience, education, credentials, negotiated contracts, budget, and internal equity may be considered when determining base salary and/or rate.