Registered Nurse_ PRN Pre Op

Summary

Captures patient care planning with other disciplines using the nursing process and critical thinking skills to ensure patient safety and well-being.

Essential Functions

• Provides direct patient care, evaluates outcomes, consults with specialists as needed, and adjusts nursing care processes as necessary 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 physicians regarding any unusual or unexpected events or problems requiring direct physician consultation.
• Works with 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.
• Promotes aseptic techniques, manages IV lines, ensures sterile techniques, oversees patient movement and positioning, and administers pharmacological vasodilator medications for nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging.
• Complies with policies, procedures, regulations, and standards, taking corrective action when violations occur.
• Orients, instructs, and educates assigned personnel.

Behavioral Health RN

• Assesses psychological needs of patients and families, provides discharge and aftercare planning, and represents psychiatric services to referral sources, community 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.
• Performs related duties as assigned.