Registered Nurse PRN- Cardiac 1

Responsibilities

• Coordinates and delivers patient care using the health care team philosophy practice model.
• Coordinates and does patient teaching and discharge planning.
• Captures and coordinates activities with ancillary departments.
• Maintains standards of department and the hospital.
• Reports to Nurse Manager or designee.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited program in nursing.
• Previous experience in general duty nursing preferred, but not required.
• Current Registered Nurse license to practice in the state.
• Current BLS certification.

Qualifications

Essential Functions:

• Provides the best possible nursing care by planning, organizing, and directing the nursing functions of patients on the unit.
• Initiates and implements patient care plan.
• Maintains acceptable standards of patient care.
• Identifies problems and guides personnel to their solution.
• Creates a working climate that provides growth and job satisfaction of personnel.
• Accurately and promptly implements physicians' orders.
• Administers medications and intravenous solutions skillfully and correctly.
• Maintains the standards of accurate and complete recording and reporting.
• Arranges to have needed supplies and equipment on hand.
• Participates in planning changes and improvements.
• Participates in hospital safety programs.
• Supports and enforces infection-control policies and procedures.
• Is resourceful and calm in emergencies.
• Participates in orientation and in-service training for personnel.
• Participates in unit and department performance improvement plans.
• Assists in reviewing and revising policies and procedures.
• Maintains and respects patients' privacy by maintaining confidentiality of all information regarding patients, families, physicians and hospital personnel.
• Displays concern and initiative.
• Observes and supports hospital policy.
• Is prompt and efficient with minimal absences.
• Cooperates and maintains good rapport with nursing staff, medical staff, other departments, and visitors.

Functional Demands:

• Prolonged periods of standing, walking, or sitting while on duty.
• Lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 50 pounds with or without assistance.
• Transferring, repositioning patients.
• Reaching, stooping, bending, kneeing, and crouching for patient care functions.
• Visual and auditory acuity and manual dexterity essential to performing designated duties required.
• Optimal auditory acuity required.
• Manual dexterity involving the handling of equipment and instruments or needles is essential to performing assigned duties.
• Ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests.

Physical Conditions:

• Clean, neat and well lit.
• May be subjected to unpleasant sights and odors, stressful situations and hazardous or infectious agents where judgment as to precautions need to be taken is essential.
• Climate control and ambient temperature variances may be experienced.
• Exposure to limited amounts of hazardous chemicals or substances and infectious disease processes are a possibility.
• Hours of duty maybe irregular or unexpectedly extended due to emergency circumstances.
• Direct contact with blood or other body fluids to which universal precautions apply.
• Personal protective equipment is made available and must be worn.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

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Schedule

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