Registered Nurse - Recovery Room - Full-Time, 0.8 FTE

Overview

Copley Hospital, located in Morrisville/Stowe VT, is seeking a Registered Nurse to join their Recovery team. The position involves delivering age-specific, direct patient care and assuming leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates the unit-specific skills required for assigned service areas.
• Integrates various aspects of specific knowledge for the patient populations served within unit area of hire.
• Applies knowledge of expected norms in planning interventions.
• Meets 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 and integrates the influence of the human experience of health, illness, and/or healing.
• Adapts care for diverse populations, assists colleagues with care delivery, and refers all concerns/issues to appropriate resources.
• Incorporates teaching in delivery of care and demonstrates competence in health promotion and disease prevention.
• Provides information to patient/family appropriately, assesses for barriers to learning, and uses colleagues as a learning resource.
• Manages self and resources effectively.
• Organizes multitask workload, accepts changes in assignment, utilizes supplies appropriately, and requests assistance appropriately.
• Applies leadership skills appropriately.
• Captures and 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 and 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.

Qualifications

• VT License RN
• BLS, ACLS, PALS and department-specific competency verification
• 2 years current PACU experience and PALS (desired)