Registered Nurse (RN) - Palliative Care/Med Surg
About the role
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Registered Nurse (RN) joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Our Palliative Care Unit is a 41-bed combined unit serving both palliative and medical-surgical patients. The team is dedicated to providing compassionate, patient-centered care that supports both patients and their families during complex and sensitive health journeys. We offer flexible scheduling, giving nurses the opportunity to have input into their work schedules. Full-time nurses work three 12-hour shifts, with day shift options varying (primarily 7A) and night shift offered as consistent 7P schedules. Teamwork is at the core of our culture. Our staff takes pride in delivering not only high-quality clinical care, but also empathy, compassion, and a listening ear to every patient and family member we serve.
Responsibilities
- Coordinates the Patient Care Team's delivery of personalized, efficient care with respect for patient's spiritual and cultural differences in accordance with the PA State Board of Nursing Licensure requirement and ANA Scope and Standards of Practice.
- Considers factors related to safety, effectiveness and cost in planning and delivering patient care
- Provides patient assessment throughout patient stay and participates in discharge planning while maintaining a therapeutic partnership with patient, family, and caregivers
- Initiates individualized patient and family teaching plan
- Adheres to the 10 rights of medication administration
- Implements physician orders and records physician's phone orders with read back
- Collaborates with physician during rounds
- Makes decisions and judgments in preventing, analyzing, and resolving patient care concerns
- Reports patient's status, refers problems when necessary and anticipates situations that prevent/minimize adverse outcomes
- Implements the interventions identified in the established plan of care and collaborates with members of the Patient