Registered Nurse (RN)- 5C ICU (Per Diem)

Job Responsibility

• Conducts patient interview, explains policies and procedures, assesses patient’s health status, communicates and documents patient’s physiologic health status and plan of care.
• Affirms patient’s psychosocial health status, identifies patient’s need for teaching, develops criteria for measurement of patient outcomes, establishes individualized patient goals.
• Identifies care activities, establishes priorities, coordinates care, documents plan of care, collaborates with physicians and other health team members.
• Implements the plan of care, maintains vigilance over patients’ care, corrects treatments, provides emotional support, applies scientific principles, reports and records observations, evaluates care provided.
• Demonstrates ability to measure effectiveness of care provided, performs variance analysis, designs, implements, and evaluates systems to improve care in unit, keeps accurate documentation of patient’s treatment, activity and condition.
• Collaborates with other care team members in planning and carrying out treatment regimen, provides direction to other members of the care team, collaborates with the appropriate physician on patient’s plan of care.
• Accurately interprets and implements treatment regimen, assists the Physician during treatments and/or diagnostic procedures, keeps Patient Care Manager/designee and/or physician, abreast of changes in patient’s condition and/or treatments.
• Performs grade I-IV Decubitus Care, applies simple dressings, maintains principles of aseptic technique, applies warm and cold compresses, performs irrigations, performs other procedures related to skin care.
• Administers medications correctly and safely, identifies medication, prepares local solutions, documents medication correctly, educates patients and significant others related to drug and food interactions.
• Participates in patient and family education, provides patient with an explanation of his/her condition, communicates assessment data, recognizes and utilizes health teaching opportunities, evaluates the effectiveness of teaching by feedback from patient/ family.

Job Qualification

• Graduate from an accredited School of Nursing, required.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing, preferred.
• Must be enrolled in an accredited BSN program within two (2) years and obtain a BSN Degree within five (5) years of job entry date.
• Current License to practice as a Registered Professional Nurse in New York State, required.
• Specialized certifications, as needed.