Registered Nurse PRN Premium

Responsibilities

• Provides a positive and professional representation of the organization.
• Promotes culture of safety for patients and employees through proper identification, reporting, documentation, and prevention.
• Maintains hospital standards for a clean and quiet patient environment to maintain a positive patient care experience.
• Maintains competency and knowledge of current standards of practice, trends, and developments in related scope of job role or practice.
• Adheres to infection-control policies and protocols, medication administration and storage procedures, and controlled substance regulations.
• Participates in ongoing quality improvement activities.
• Maintains compliance with organization’s policies, as well as established practices, protocols, and procedures of the position, department, and applicable professional standards.
• Complies with organizational and regulatory policies for handling confidential patient information.
• Demonstrates excellent customer service through his/her attitude and actions, consistent with the standards contained in the Vision, Mission, and Values of the organization.
• Adheres to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and TJC standards and/or standards from other accrediting bodies.

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.

Qualifications

Ability to perform effectively in a stressful and fast-paced environment.

Ability to pass all required health and other screening tests.

Physical conditions are 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.

Climates 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 may be 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.