Registered Nurse (RN) - Emergency Department (ED) - PRN

About the role

Provide care in accordance with the North Carolina Board of Nursing-Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association Standards of Practice and other standards established by profession/professional groups, regulating bodies/agents. Nursing care will be delivered in accordance with ECU Health and entity specific nursing policies, procedures and professional standards of care/practice. ECU Health Chowan Hospital in Edenton is a 25-bed critical access hospital which provides programs and services to 110,000 people in 6 counties. The facility offers medical and surgical services, including intensive care, a specialty care clinic and a dedicated outpatient surgery area with endoscopy capabilities. A 7-bed emergency department serves approximately 15,000 patients per year and team members at the facility have access to a telemedicine link with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

Responsibilities

• Provide care in accordance with the North Carolina Board of Nursing-Nurse Practice Act, American Nurses Association Standards of Practice and other standards established by profession/professional groups, regulating bodies/agents.
• Deliver nursing care per ECU Health and entity specific nursing policies, procedures and professional standards of care/practice.
• Provide and coordinate nursing care including collection and analysis of assessment data, identification of expected outcomes, and development of plan of care in collaboration with the patient/family and interdisciplinary team.
• Identify interventions to attain expected outcomes.
• Implement interventions identified in the plan of care.
• Evaluate progress of the patient/family toward attainment of outcomes.
• Document the nursing process.
• Provide sensitivity to age‑specific and unique needs of the patient/family.
• Promote and evaluate the effective functioning of the health care team.
• Collaborate with health care team members to meet identified needs throughout the episode of care.