Registered Nurse - Outpatient Procedures Department - Full-Time

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates the unit specific skills requisite for assigned service area.
• Integrates various aspects of specific knowledge for the patient populations served within unit area of hire: applies knowledge of expected norms in planning interventions.
• Demonstrates integration of knowledge, skills, and abilities for the patient populations served in unit of care.
• Maintains compliance with Copley Hospital standards related to: telephone etiquette, customer service, comportment, inter intra departmental relations, confidentiality, corporate compliance, patient provider rights, UOR reporting mechanism, QI, Code of Conduct.
• Develops and maintains human care relationships & integrates the influence of the human experience of health, illness &/or healing.
• Adapts care for diverse populations, assists colleagues with care delivery, refers all concerns/issues to appropriate resource.
• Incorporates teaching in delivery of care and demonstrates competence in health promotion & disease prevention.
• Provides information to patient family appropriately, assesses for barriers to learning, uses colleagues as a learning resource.
• Manages self and resources effectively.
• Organizes multitask workload, accepts changes in assignment, utilizes supplies appropriately, requests assistance appropriately.
• Applies leadership skills appropriately.
• Captures integrates data from multiple sources, seeks assistance information appropriately.
• Communicates with patients, team members, and management in an accurate, timely manner.
• Reports pertinent data, completes forms and charting, protects confidentiality, attends staff meetings or retrieves information from same, reads communications.
• Identifies & applies age specific safety needs when performing job duties in the following circumstances: disaster/evacuation, transfer of patients, minimizing security risks, restraints/immobilization devices, use of equipment.
• Incorporates appropriate assessment and intervention skills in all interactions and delivery of nursing care: medical asepsis, physical assessment, monitoring, pain management, reports, therapeutic interventions, medication administration, IV lines management, evaluation & revisions of plan of care, procedures, & medical technology.

Requirements

• Associate Degree (or certification equivalent)
• Current Vermont licensure
• ACLS required
• Conscious sedation experience preferred